eir souls and could study so much
better than they could before.

CHAPTER IV

There were sometimes as many as sixty or seventy brought to the
knowledge of the Truth, and sometimes we had to go out of the class-room
into the prayer-room, for the Lord was among us in the Spirit's power.

When in 1886 I went out for good, that I might be of some use to my own
people I started in the strength of the Lord, and He did give me the
greatest victory as a school teacher, for all of the people sought me to
take their children in my school and give them a start. I had my hands
full of work, but I let them come in for the Board always sent them to
me find out if I could find room and time, and I always made the time
for when scholars find that a teacher loves them they will do any amount
of hard studying.

And so the time rolled on, with everything to make me feel like hard
work, in the strength of the blessed Lord.

I was three years old when I was leaving my own dear mother's home to go
to my new mother's home, or I should say to my white mother's home, to
live with her, and I left my mother's as happy as any child could leave
her own home, for this lovely lady was always at my mother's to see me
ever since I could remember anything, and she was the joy of my little
life and I seemed to be all the joy of her sweet life. She had learned
to love me from the time that I came into the world.

She had watched me in my cradle and longed for the day to come when I
should be able to walk, for she knew that I would follow her everywhere
she should go. She said to all of the friends around that if I should
live to remember her that would be all that she would ask.

And so she read her blessed Bible and prayed until she saw her prayers
answered, and then she went to her home in glory, where she has watched
and waited and longed to see the good old ships of those who have washed
their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.

I can never tell any one how many happy hours that I had, for the only
trial that I had was that of sickness, which caused me to be of a great
care to her all of her life. It was her delight to wait on me and to
have her cousin, the doctor, to be always ready to come at any moment
she should send for him. He was a good doctor by the name of Sims, and I
always liked him, too, until I had the typhoid fever and I had to take
some oil. I did not like to take it and he held my hands so that they
co