mmer time to pay their board. The gentleman
that had Mrs. Haseltine's house took me in at evening time to entertain
the guests, and they all helped me. When I came home to make ready for
school I was at our own church one evening when dear Dr. J. D. Fulton
was giving us one of his grand lectures, and he gave me time to sing,
read and speak. The church took a grand collection for me, which
amounted to seventeen dollars and seventy-three cents. I was better
fixed that year than I had been at any year since I had been going to
school, for I had worked all of the Summer and would not spend any of my
money as I wanted it all for school, but the Evil one came and stole it
from me and I was left without a dollar, and I had the heavy heart one
is sure to have when they need money as I did. Then I had to borrow
money to leave for the school, and you may think how one feels after a
Summer's work, and to have some one else to use the money that has not
been gotten with their own labor.

Well, I did not know what I should do, so I made up my mind that I had
done all that lay in my power--that is, I had earned the money, and some
one had taken it from me and I was left to go without. So I took the
Lord for it, and could not board as I had done, but I bought some little
things to use and boarded myself, and I was up sometimes at the late
hours of night, when all of the people were asleep, cooking for the next
day, that I might not be late at school. So you can see how loving God
was to me.

My life in school was one of joy to me and to my mother and sisters and
brother and brothers-in-law, and all of the time that I was in school
they were sending me their mites to help me along. My sister, Mrs. E. F.
Rodwell and Mr. G. W. Rodwell, and my sister, Mrs. Annie Lindsey and Mr.
F. P. Lindsey were the ones that never for once forgot me, and at
Christmas time I was like a child looking for something. Everybody was
good to me. Praise the Lord for all of the love that came to me in the
time of need.

Well, my work ended in 1886, though I taught in 1885, and had the
blessing of God with me in this school. There were twenty-five out of
the school brought to the knowledge of the truth, such as the Lord will
own and bless at the last day. God be the glory. Amen and Amen.

The place was Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va., and I was called from
that school to go West where they needed me to teach in a place where
the teachers had made the pupils