The Monitor., 1891-09-11

| days in an oven?'' she was asked as she
entered the coach for forty five hours ride
across the American desert. For sixteen
days she rode twenty or thirty miles daily
in the stage, frequently speaking twice
day. She celebrated her ffty-third birth
day by starting at six a. m. for fifty mile
ride over the mountains in stage coach,
and it is not improbable that she addressed
an audience in the evening.
After long and tiresome journeys through
Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada
/ and other states and territories, in Novem-
| Der. 1894, she sailed for the Sandw ich
Islands with s35. generously sending back
to the treasury of the National w. CT. I.
the $1,000 she found waiting for her at San
Francisco. She was warmly welcomed by
both missionaries and natives. King Kala-
kaua gave her an audience and thanked her
for coming. After spending several weeks
in these islands, speaking in English or
| through an interpreter, she bravely turned
her face to far off Australia, asking, Shall
| find such welcome and such friends (for
they sent her away not empty handed) in
another strange land?" But Gods promise,
81 will 90 before thee," was verified and
she was received with open arms. and the
strangers of yesterday became the co-adJu-
tors of to-day, and the friends OTTO o-morrow,
generously filling her pocket with golden
guineas to carry her on to Japan after nine
months abor among them.
Being mistress of several languages she
had access to various European nationalities
gathered in that great island aslarge as our
own United States, and frequently spoke to
audiences OF two and three thousand peo-
pie. But twas not always smooth sailing.
At Queensland the press had so pre- iudiced
the minds of the people that her engage
ments had 20 be cancelled, although they
had been made by some of the most promi-
nent citizens. She went to Brisbane, where
the Lord so blessed her work that it was
noised abroad, and Queensland renewed its
broken engagements and gave her ESQ when
she departed for Japan, where she was very
successful, having excellent interpreters.
She was invited to address the Medical
Society, also the Naval Society of Surgeons,
and their wives. Fifty ladies, mostly in na-
tive costume, were present at this meeting,
which was very unusual for Japan. In
Tok 10 100 pastors and officers in the native
churches responded to postal invitations and
ca me to one of the chapels to hear her mes
sage. In the same city SEQ ladies assembled
all eager to hear and learn. On one occa-
sion she addressed 1000 people in this
&C unity without an Interpreter. Tie result
of single conversation with those in
authority secured Scientific Temperance In
struciion to the children fthat whole La
tion.
L ike Paul, Ler motto seems to have been
ssThis ore thing do" From early morn
till dewy eve she sowed the seed, leaving
the results with the Lord of the harvest.
Though intensely devoted to the work
which we had placed in her hands, the love
of home and native land was still strong
within her Listen to this extract from a
letter written in New Zealand:
at is now thirty-oned days since have re-
ceived word from home, nor can for ten
days longer, and the dates from my daugh-
ters are forty-six days old. Eight thousand
miles is far if sickness or death come. Ask
the dear sisters to pray, first, that the Lord
will 60 before me and prepare the way, and
secondly, that He will take care OF my
young daughters, no one of whom has
home now.
am looking anxiously for letters about
the work, by the next mail, and hope shall
| not be disappointed. want more faith than
have now to start out for China and Japan
all likely to earn"
Again in May she writes:
Through failure of mails | am without
later dates than January 9Th, and scarcely a
line appears in these New Zealand papers
! from the country that seems SO large part
of the world to me-"
On the burning sands Of India, with the
scorchiDg fever ccursing through her veins.
she longs for the kisses of her children to
cool her parched lips, and the breezes of her
native hills to soothe her throbbing brow.
But friendly hands carried her up to the
mountains whose braciDg air toned up the
weary body, and the Comforter, the blessed
II oily Spirit, SO refreshed and strengthened
her dauntless soul, that she resolutely
turned her bark to benighted Africa tospend
year fighting its greatest curse, New Eng
land rum, sent from Christian America to
sink that heather land to still deeper woe
Mrs. Livermore says:
'tThose who have no acquaintance with
Mrs. Leayitt, can never understand the
lofty heroism which has glorified her
whole career. The genius of life confronted
her seriously from birth, and sternly as she
entered womanhood; but she never wasted
time in unavailing regrets; she has borne
her own burdens bravely, and reached out
loving, helpful hands to tighten the sor-
rows of Others"
Thus Gcd prepared her to be the Kings
messenger, ard she went forth trustfully in
| His name. She has established eighty-six
new societi.s belonging 10 the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union; twenty four
mems temperance societies, and twenty
three branches of the white Cross Order.
She has held over 1000 meetings, has
travelled more than 100 600 miles, and has
| employed 229 interpreters in forty.
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