that's all tomfoolery!" I remember I answered him something
like this: "Well, husband, the men have been in the tomfoolery
business a long time; perhaps the Lord is going to call us into
partnership with them." I said no more. The next morning my
brother-in-law, Colonel ----, came in and told me about the
meeting, and said, "Now, you must be sure to go to the women's
meeting at the church this morning; they look to see you
there." Our folks talked it all over, and my husband said,
"Well, we all know where your mother'll take this case for
counsel," and then he pointed to the Bible and left the room.

I went into the corner of my room, and knelt down and opened my
Bible to see what God would say to me. Just at that moment
there was a tap on the door and my daughter entered. She was in
tears; she held her Bible in her hand, open to the 146th Psalm.
She said, "Ma, I just opened to this, and I think it is for
you," and then she went away, and I sat down and read

THIS WONDERFUL MESSAGE FROM GOD

"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom
there is no help. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for
his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God; which keepeth
truth forever; which executeth judgment for the oppressed; the
Lord looseth the prisoners; the Lord openeth the eyes of the
blind; the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down; the Lord
loveth the righteous; the Lord relieveth the fatherless and the
widow--_but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down_. The
Lord shall reign forever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all
generations. Praise ye the Lord!"

I knew that was for me, and I got up, put on my shoes, and
started. I went to the church, in this town where I was born. I
sat down quietly in the back part of the audience room, by the
stove. A hundred ladies were assembled. I heard my name--heard
the whisper pass through the company, "Here she is!" "She's
come!" and before I could get to the pulpit, they had put me
"in office"--I was their leader.

Many of our citizens were there, and our ministers also. They
stayed a few minutes, and then rose and went out, saying, "This
is your work--we leave it with the women and the Lord." When
they had gone, I just opened the big pulpit Bible and read that
146th Psalm, and