ive for a while. When the rush came I did not forget the one
who had helped me, but went to her two days out of a week, for she had
her house filled with boarders, and the Summer was all a blessing to her
and her family.

There was Mrs. Purdy, who was another one of my friends, for I did work
for her laundry for three years, and she said whenever I came to the
Springs and wanted work to come to her; if the house was filled there
was room for me. So you see how God did open the way for me in that
strange and lonely place, where there are so many that go there for the
Summer looking for work. I went out of the house where we were stopping
and got the washing and brought it home to my sister, for she would not
go out of the house as she had not been from the place where she lived
before. I got her to go with me to help me with the work, and it was
coming in so fast I had to get a white lady to help us to get through,
for the colored people said that we would not get work as the laws were
passed to keep the New York workers out, and I told them that they would
have to pass laws to keep the rich people of New York from coming there
to board if they should keep the workers out; so I did not hear to that,
and found the way for I had the will, and where there is a will there is
always a way. So much for the first Summer.

Well, the second time I went up alone. I say alone, I mean that my
sister did not go, but the Lord did go with me that Summer, for I did
not go to the house where my sister and I was for they tried to
discourage us the first time. I always mark one that is an enemy to me
and shake the dust off of my feet and let the Lord do for that one what
He thinks is best.

Well, for the third year I was there with the Lord and He was surely
there with me. I did not do any work on the Lord's Day, but tried to
teach them. When they made me an offer of larger pay for the work done
on the Lord's Day, I told them that in six days the Lord made the
heavens and the earth and He rested on the seventh day, and I felt that
if He needed rest on that day I was sure that I must have rest. So the
Sunday work was not carried on any more in that laundry. He said that
the Lord had sent me to that laundry for the bettering of all in it. The
gentleman was from Philadelphia and his name was Mr. Cheek.

So you see how the Lord preached His word through me, a feeble one of
the dust, and what can not the Lord help us to do if we only trust i