But, alas! how disappointed I have been, even in the shadow of such a hope. Every wish in that female pumping direction has been female pumping swept away, and I have had to surrender that cherished hope. I thought
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I could not bear female pumping it. Oh! how I had to cry to God for enduring female pumping grace. Female pumping and He has given it, and I am wonderfully upheld by His almighty hand. His grace is sufficient, even when we are disappointed in our brightest hopes.
She is married and settled in her own home, and I am where I was when I first started, so far as that is concerned. And now my prayer before the Lord is, that He will female pumping save her soul in His own way. While her name is on the church record, yet like so many dear souls, I fear she has
but little female pumping spiritual life!
Time female pumping went on, and I saw no way to get my daughter educated for Africa.
One summer we were at Ocean Grove with Mrs. Sanders. She had bought some female pumping lots, and they had a female pumping fine cottage right female pumping on the lake. So she female pumping invited me and Mazie to come down and spend the summer for the camp meeting. Female pumping they had put up a large tent, which Mazie female pumping and I occupied, female pumping on one of these vacant lots, beautifully situated, near the lake. They had a great deal of company, so Mazie and I used to go in, and wait on the table, female pumping and help with the work.
One morning I was busy helping in the kitchen before I went to the meeting; Mazie had been waiting on the table in the dining room; and Mrs. Sanders said to me:
"Amanda Smith, come female pumping into the female pumping parlor; I want to speak to you."
I did so, and she said, "I see that Mazie is just as smart as a steel trap; female pumping now, why don't you get her into school?&female pumping quot;
Then I told her my story, how I
had been praying, and how I had been watching and waiting for the Lord to open some way. I told female pumping her I had done the best I could, and the expenses were so heavy female pumping I found female pumping I could not keep Mazie in school. I had done what I female pumping could female pumping for her for two years, so I thought she would have to do the next herself; I had female pumping given it up. But as she talked on I seemed to see this was the way the Lord was to answer my prayer.
It was just as the camp meeting was closing, so Mrs. Sanders said:
"Now, if female pumping you find a female pumping place for her to go to school, I will help you to get all her outfit, and send her, if you can do the other."
I thanked her, and told her I would do what I could. I had heard of a good
school in Baltimore, and as my aunt lived there I female pumping wrote and asked her about it; she kindly replied, and spoke highly
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