its folds that nothing was visible but their heads. This incident
did much good. The pupils looked on the discovery as an answer to
prayer, and so did their teacher. They began to be afraid to steal
when God so exposed their thefts, and she was thankful for an answer
so immediate. The offender is now a pious, useful woman.

Yet some were so accustomed to falsehood, that, even after
conversion, it cost a struggle to be entirely truthful, and
missionaries could see, as Christians in our own land cannot see,
why an apostle should write to the regenerate, "Lie not one to
another." The teacher labored to impress her charge with the
sinfulness of such conduct, but in the revival of 1846, they seemed
to learn more in one hour than she had taught them in the two years
preceding. Yet that faithful instruction was not lost. It was the
fuel which the Spirit of God kindled into a flame. The sower has not
labored in vain because the seed lies for days buried in the soil.

In that revival, the awakened hastened to restore what they had
stolen. One came to Miss Fiske in great distress, saying, "Do you
remember the day, two years ago, when Sawdee's new shoes were taken
from the door?"--They leave off their shoes on entering a house.--"Yes,
I recollect it." "You thought a Moslem woman stole them, but"--and
here her feelings overcame her--"I took them, for I was angry with
her, and threw them into a well. What shall I do? I know Christ will
not receive me till I have confessed it to her. Can I go and confess
it to-night, and pray with her, and then may I go and work for money
to replace them?" She paid for the shoes, and became a bright light
in her dark home. There were many such cases, and from that time the
teachers had little trouble from theft. New pupils would sometimes
steal, but the older ones were ready to detect them, and show them