a year or two in the adjoining valley before she more clearly saw that
evangelical labor, as well as religious privileges, had providentially
called the family to their present location.

True, she was a woman, and the Master had chosen "men to preach," and
"women to guide the house," and win souls in a quiet manner. But she could
attend faithfully to household affairs, and also do something as a private
member to lead sinners to Jesus, even though miles away on the dark
mountain; for she was an expert rider, very spry and strong, and only
thirty years of age, and had a fleet, easy horse that could climb those
slopes and fly across those table-lands and be back home in a few hours.

So, in the name and fear of the Lord, this cultured woman began among the
rough settlers of Washington Mountain as a religious visitor from, house
to house. At first her visits were between 1 P.M. and sunset; but as the
people became awakened, and gathered in groups, requiring more exhortation
and wrestling prayer, she spent more time with them, frequently mounting
her boy behind her for company, and always reaching home before she slept.
Local preachers and exhorters followed up the work. The circuit preachers,
by an occasional visit, gathered the lambs into folds, and thus the fields
were cultivated, while this pioneer woman searched out other destitute
groups and introduced them to Gospel privileges and blessings.

In this rapid riding and visiting, as a true shepherdess, hunting up the
lost, she cautiously occupied mostly fair afternoons, and on an average,
in moderate weather, only one or two afternoons a week. But in a few years
even that amount of time, well employed, produced glorious results. Her
work in this line was somewhat like that of a modern "Bible reader," only
that it was much more rapid. What would her father have thought, when
teaching his proud daughter horsemanship, if he had been told what use she