The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

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Miss Smith at a Ladies’ Seminary

While Uriah was at the academy, his sister was attending a young ladies’ seminary in Charlestown, Mass. Her course there was nearly finished, and as she was soon to leave school, an offer was made to herself and her brother to teach in an academy at Mt. Vernon, N.H., for three years, at $1,000 a year, with board and room. GSAM 313.2

About this time the mother embraced “present truth.” Her prayers were now, if possible, more earnest and fervent than ever in behalf of her children. Elder Bates visited West Wilton, and before him Mrs. Smith laid the case of her children, and their conversion was made a subject of prayer. Elder Bates was expecting in a few days to hold meetings in Somerville, Mass., at the house of Paul Folsom, and Mrs. Smith was to write to her daughter, inviting her to attend the meeting. In the mean-time, Elder Bates and the mother were to pray that God would move upon her heart to go to the meeting. GSAM 313.3