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us who weep He speaks: “ Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are made partakers of Christ's sufferings, that when his glory shall be revealed, ye also may be glad with exceeding joy!”
The advent of
Mrs. Stowe's third daughter was followed by a protracted illness and a struggle with great poverty, of which
Mrs. Stowe writes in October, 1843:
Our straits for money this year are unparalleled even in our annals.
Even our bright and cheery neighbor Allen begins to look blue, and says $600 is the very most we can hope to collect of our salary, once $1,200. We have a flock of entirely destitute young men in the seminary, as poor in money as they are rich in mental and spiritual resources.
They promise to be as fine a band as those we have just sent off. We have two from Iowa and Wisconsin who were actually crowded from secular pursuits into the ministry by the wants of the people about them.
Revivals began, and the people came to them saying, “We have no minister, and you must preach to us, for you know more than we do.”
In the spring of 1844
Professor Stowe visited the
East to arouse an interest in the struggling seminary and raise funds for its maintenance.
While he was there he received the following letter from
Mrs. Stowe:--
I am already half sick with confinement to the house and overwork.
If I should sew every day for a month to come I should not be able to accomplish a half of what is to be done, and should be only more unfit for my other duties.
This struggle against ill-health and poverty was continued
