Then I had to borrow
money to leave for the school, and you may think how one feels after a
Summer's work, and to have some one else to use the money that has not
been gotten with their own labor.
Well, I did not know what I should do, so I made up my mind that I had
done all that lay in my power--that is, I had earned the money, and some
one had taken it from me and I was left to go without. So I took the
Lord for it, and could not board as I had done, but I bought some little
things to use and boarded myself, and I was up sometimes at the late
hours of night, when all of the people were asleep, cooking for the next
day, that I might not be late at school. So you can see how loving God
was to me.
My life in school was one of joy to me and to my mother and sisters and
brother and brothers-in-law, and all of the time that I was in school
they were sending me their mites to help me along. My sister, Mrs. E. F.
Rodwell and Mr. G. W. Rodwell, and my sister, Mrs. Annie Lindsey and Mr.
F. P. Lindsey were the ones that never for once forgot me, and at
Christmas time I was like a child looking for something. Everybody was
good to me. Praise the Lord for all of the love that came to me in the
time of need.
Well, my work ended in 1886, though I taught in 1885, and had the
blessing of God with me in this school.
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