The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-11-25

unto the end. She never aspired to wear any
other character. or TO appear before the world
in any other light. Naturally she had strong
desires. She enjoyed life She was hopeful. She
had a strong mind. and a strong self-wil. As
she said to me the day before her death, she had
a great deal of human nature. She had those
traits and qualities that would have enabled
her TO take hold of the world and be prominent
in II. But she never again turned toward the
world to covet it. To be as a missionary, and to
do that which was becoming in a missionary, 10
suffer, if need be, and be true to her calling,
was her thought to the last.
Among the mercies also in which she saw Gods
gracious dealings with her, was his sparing her
to do last things. By degrees during the last SIX
years there has been growing in her the Inclina-
ton and the feeling of duty encouraged by others,
to leave behind her some "reminiscences of earlier
missionary days-a view OF the work as seen from
the inside, and that by the mothers, instead of
the fathers. A mass of material was in hand for
such a work. Her pen had ever been q good deal
in her hand, and she had from the first carefully
treasured her letters and sketches, all of them
written in her quaint and pleasing style, bearing
the impress of originality, and showing her own
individuality in every sentence. When her last
sickness fell upon her SO suddenly, she felt that 1t
was her last; and her strong desire was, that she
might survive until she could collate and arrange
this material. And so hourly, day after day, and
sometimes by night, as she sat in her chair, now
writing and now debating, she busted horself
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She cared to be spared for nothing else. God
gave her her desire, enabling her to leave her
material so that it could be readily finished IN
satisfactory shape for the press. At length she
came to the time about three months ago when
she felt that her work was done, and that she
was ready to be taken. In her former sicknesses
she had chung to life. She had seemed to battle
the power of diseases by the sheer force of. her
will to live. She had held to life feeling that there
were responsibilities and work that she could not
yet lay down. She had braved the surgeons
knife, and had risen up out of prostrations, he:
meath which most persons would probably have
succumbed. But in her last sickness, she felt
that che had finished her course, and that she
was ready to be offered. She waited day and
night in great physical discomfort, and wondered
that she was still kept in life, and almost feared
that months more of suffering were appointed to
her. A few hours and even minutes before her
death, the end seemed no nearer to her than 1t
did a month or two before. But God at last took
her quickly out of her distresses, into the rest for
which she was longing. In the last few weeks
of her life she also came to feel that God was spar
ing her yet a little for a purpose, especially that
she might learn more of the fullness of Christ,
and come more into the peace that passes under
standing, and have wrought in her more of the gen
tier graces. Months ago, and in fact for years, the
experiences beyond this life, what 1t is to die,
and just what will be Immediately after death,
and Just what the resurrection is, were themes
that interested her and occupied her thoughts a
good deal. She thought and reasoned and loved
to talk about them. She has often in years as
well as months past opened up conversation IN
regard to them. But in the last few weeks she
has wanted to know more about the present in
dwelling of Christ, and how much his promise OF
OF peace included. She became we might almost
say an anxious inquirer in this direction. The
week before her death, as she asked question after
question about the peace of Christ in the soul,
she told me that she felt that she had yet very
much to learn. The most earnest conversation |
ever had with her was the day before her death.
l had hardly taken my seat at her side before she
began with an inquiry that came right from her
heart. Repeating Christ's words" Behold L
stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, | will come in to him
and sup with him, and he with me, she asked,
with a manifest interest, and a childlike spirit of
inquiry, what it was to open that door, and how
she could do it more fully, that Jesus might come
ton in receiving the Saviour in greater fulness to
her heart.
Her faith had been strong and firm in Christ.
Her hope had all along been anchored within the
veil. She had trusted fully in the God of her
salvation. She had not doubted his love or care
or the crown of life that he had for her. She not
only had q mind of unusual strength but also the
courage of faith to an unusual degree. She bad
been strong to do, to bear, to suffer for Christ.
The elements of strength had always been pro
minent in her character. She did not like fol-
bles. She was naturally commanding in her
qualities, and perhaps somewhat in her tempera-
ment and so long as she could work, these
strong traits had their easy and joyful play in
her life. But now when all her work was done.
and she could only sit and be patient, it was as q
change of life to her. 1t was as it were, a trial
of faith in a new direction. New lessons seemed
to be coming to her to be learned. She realized
more deeply the Importance of receiving from
Christ, as well as doing for him. She had been
patient under responsibility and now with some
chatting of spirit 1t may be, she was seeking to
learn to be patient without any responsibility
pressing on her. She would sit at Jesus feet and
learn of him. The saDctifying love of Christ
her nature is what she thought upon
desired. The gentleness and childlike sub
missiveness of the christian spirit seemed to her
graces more difficult to exercise and be filled
with, than the harder and drawer virtues. But
these also she was learning as last lessons, deeply
and blessedly, in the very hours when her Saviour
came and received her to himself.
Her life surely impresses upon US all the great
that Christ will deal well by those who
make sacrifices for Him, and that His promise OF
the hundred fold in this life to those who leave
Ill for Him, is a sure promise. 1t is a promise
on which no one of us need fear to 60 out in self
denying service to Christ. The life of Mrs.
leaves to her children and to her grand
children and to US all, the confirmation Of this
as a rich legacy.