now about two hundred pupils. About two thirds of our scholars are
teachers in it, and it is a good preparation for teaching in their
homes. Those who do not teach form a class. We then go home to
lunch, flavored with pleasant remembrances and familiar explanations
of the morning service. The afternoon service commences at two
o'clock, and our Bible lessons an hour before supper, though some
are called earlier, to help us teach the women who come in for
instruction. At supper, all are allowed to ask Bible questions, and
before leaving the table we have evening prayers. At seven o'clock,
Miss Rice and I go to the English prayer meeting, while the pupils
meet in six or seven family meetings, as they call them, the inmates
of each room being by themselves, and the pious among them taking
turns in conducting them. If any wish to come to us after this, we
are glad to see them; and often this hour witnesses the submission
of souls to God.

Besides these there is a weekly prayer meeting on Tuesday evening, a
lecture on Friday afternoon, and on Wednesday, as well as Sabbath
evening, the school meets in two divisions for prayer.

The following journal, kept during the revival, in 1860, by Esli, an
assistant teacher, forms an appropriate continuation of this
interior picture of the Seminary:--

"_February 1st_. To-day, a part of the girls wrote compositions
on 'anger,' and a part on 'the gospel.'

"_3d, Friday_. John was here to-day writing to Mount Holyoke
Seminary, and attended our noon prayer meeting. In the afternoon,
Deacon Joseph of Degala preached from the words "King of kings and