When I got well of the smallpox, as I said, I went back to the place
where I was living when I took the malady, and there I tried to work,
but was very feeble for a long time and under the doctor's care all of
the time and spending more than I could make, for some of the doctors
charged me two dollars a visit, and that will use up a poor person's
earnings very soon.

But all of this time I kept in mind the idea that I should save every
cent that I could that I might send myself to school some day. That day
did come when it seemed as dark as any night I had ever seen, when I
should go away to boarding school and spend that little and should not
have enough to finish; but I went, taking the Lord as the guide of my
life, and the way began to grow bright before me and I could see all the
clouds rolling away and the brightness shining forth. I went to
Washington, D. C., and entered the Wayland Seminary, under the
leadership of Professor G. M. P. King, of Bangor, Maine, with his other
teachers and professors under him; all of whom are a noble band of
teachers. And the way the Lord did help me in my studies is a blessing
to the dear ones that I had under me for the eleven years that I was in
the school work, and the way they progressed.

I said that I attended the Wayland Seminary for three years, of eight
months, making it in all of my stay there twenty-four months, which may
seem long to some, but it seems short to me, though I am very glad that
I had that much time there for it was a fountain of blessing to my soul.

I left Washington, D. C., in the year of 1878 and came to Brooklyn and
went to work again to earn money to go off to school, and when I did go
it was another school in the Blue Ridge, Alleghany Mountains, where the