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