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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XXXIX. 
RELIGIOUS AWAKENING, FIRST CONVERTS 
For some time before Mr. Williams commenced 
work at tbe mission, and up till the time Mr. 
Billheimer returned to America, in the summer 
of 1859, there existed a religious awakening 
among some of the young people who attended the 
day and Sabbath schools, and sanctuary services. 
Mr. Billheimer reported a class of ten persons who 
were seeking the Lord, some of them very earnestly. 
Among the number were Miss Lucy Caulker and 
Mr. Thomas Tucker, who were happily converted. 
Thomas was a young man, twenty or more years 
of age. Lucy was the daughter of the chief of 
Shengay, and about fourteen years of age. Her 
parents both opposed her, and at times bitterly; bui, 
she was steadfast in her adherence to Christ. It 
was not long until her father sold her, to become 
the wife of a white man, who took her sixty miles 1 
from Shengay, to his trading-station. It is 4 
thought the old chief did this to cause her to 
abandon a religious life ; but whether this was bo- 
