er we had finished our meeting at Batticotta we went to the female
seminary at Oodooville, to hold similar meetings. Before we reached that
station, the church-members there, after having heard what God was doing
at Batticotta, became very much aroused to pray for the influences of
the Holy Spirit to descend upon the impenitent in their seminary also.
Soon after we reached the station, we held a meeting with the girls.
Some of them were then deeply concerned for the salvation of their
souls; but it was not until Wednesday afternoon, that we knew how
powerfully the Spirit of God had been at work. The meeting which we held
with the seminarists at that time was one of the most solemn meetings
which I ever attended. One of them, a girl of high caste, and of a very
good family, said to her companions in that meeting, "My sisters, I have
been a proud one among you. I hope that if you ever see me proud again,
you will tell me of it. I used to tell the missionaries, that I had
given myself to the Saviour, but I had not done it." Another of the
girls burst into tears, and cried out aloud. As she could not restrain
her feelings, and did not wish to disturb the assembly, she arose and
left it. She retired to one of the prayer-rooms adjoining the seminary,
there to weep alone. She, however, was not left alone. Mr. Poor, one of
my missionary associates, followed her, and endeavored to administer the
consolations of the Gospel to her; but she refused to be comforted. All
her distress seemed to arise from a single source. "I told you a
falsehood," said she, "last Monday, in saying that I had dedicated
myself to the Saviour, when I had not." Perhaps she thought at that
time, that she had thus dedicated herself to the Saviour, but
afterwards found that she had deceived herself. In this wretched state
of mind, she continued until half-past ten o'clock that night, when she
came into Mr. Spaulding's house, where I then was, and wished to know
what she must do to be saved. She was told, as she had often been told
before, that she must dedicate herself entirely to her Saviour. She went
away, and returned the same night at about half-past eleven o'clock,
saying, that she had found HIM.

"Friends, is not my case amazing?
What a Saviour I have found."

My dear young friends, are there any of you who have never given your
hearts to Christ? If so, let me entreat you to follow the example of
that dear little girl of whom I have now been