30 SHERBRO MISSION. 
were seeking the Lord, a part of them in great 
earnest. Two of them were happily converted to 
God. One was a young lady named Lucy Caulker, 
a daughter of the head-man of the town. 
Though she was quite young and bitterly opposed 
by her own mother, she yet clung to Jesus with 
all the ardor of a new-born soul. 
She was finally compelled to leave the mission. 
But on Mr. Billheimer’s return from America to 
the mission in 1863 he wrote, ^^Lucy is now here 
agai^ and seems as much interested in the Sab- 
bath-school and preaching, and is as faithful as 
ever.’’ 
The other convert referred to was a young man 
who had been taken in the mission at its very 
commencement. Of his piety there was no doubt. 
His earnest prayers, his humble life, his longing 
desire to know more of the Bible, all went to 
show that he had found the pearl of great price. 
Mr. Billheimer wrote of him in 1863, five years 
after his conversion: ^^Tom, one of the young 
converts who was stolen frofn the mission by the 
Burrow Bush Society, has returned. He is not a 
very good ^Burrow-man,’ but is greatly attached 
to the mission and is faithful in duty.” 
At the time these two souls were converted, 
in 1858, Mr. B. declared there was a deep religious 
feeling prevailing among the people. The chapel 
