These two being absent from Kirtland, responsibility and work without limit rested again with Angel Halsey.
With unsatisfied affections and thoughts wholly perplexed, Susannah beheld the days of the new year lengthening.

Then she fell into the weakness, to which humanity is prone, of hoping eagerly for some external circumstance that should lighten the inner darkness.

A bit of stray news one day came to her with the shock of an apparent fulfilment of her vague expectation.

Finney was passing through that part of the country preaching.

Of all human beings she had ever met, this remarkable evangelist most impressed her as a man who had intimate dealing, awful, yet friendly, with an unseen power.