The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-07

envelope BY the time she had reached
her destination she had completed two
11aiiI ~ OF the hymn by which her name
VIII De remembered for many a wear to
come "A third verse was afterwards
auueu writes Mrs. Luke ITO make II a
n ,,,i5sionary hymn. l never thought OF
pruning theSe simple verses Nv ia ther
/ Superlntended the Sunday school at the
nttle chapel belonging TO the estate He
USED USED 10 let the children choose the first
hymn themselves. One Sunday afternoon
s sney struck up their new hymn. NV
Ialher turned to my young sisters. who
stood near him, and said: ~
Where did that come froro2 na,-sr
heard it before
" OH Jemima made it, was the renIv
If IN tbe me MONDAY he asked me for a copy
with name and address in full 10 the
sunday School Teachers Magazine.
one immediate result of the nublfca
InoInpson-as she was then-the offer to
euit missionary magazine for children.
cdlIed the Missionary Repository
II was suitable and congenial work"
she writes, and l welcomed it as gra-
ciouSiy sent from above to fill up the
pIdhh IN my prospects. / soon became
nuch interested i'll the undertaking. and
lhe circulation increased rapidly 1T was
not limited to one missionary society but
gathered facts Of interest from all IT
Drought me some delightful correspond
S sl,I ana among my most kind and faith
lu1 nelpers were James Edmeston, Rob-
eft Moffat, James Montgomery. Anna
fblaIthwaite, r. NJ. Jackson and Mrs.
Mmortlmef, or Peep of Day" celebrity.
one contribution came from Dr. Living
stone; also letters of encourag cement from
isaac Taylor, Dr. Harris and Bishop sum
ner, afterwards archbishop Of Canter-
In connection with the magazine work
the editor wrote one day a short mis-
Slonary story to be read to children. which
was received so We'll that I'm time thirty
little books of the sort came to be writ
Ten by her, of which half a million copies
We're circulated.
Sunday schools in these DAYS" saws
MIS- Luke. with pardonable pride Con
tllDute many thousands to the funds of
their various missionary societies and
as Is often the case with great move
ments, their adhesion to the cause had
this small and simple beginning. 1t is also
from the ranks of Sunday school teachers
that the forces of the missionary societies
nave been continually supplied The
Missionary Repository has long sincMdied
a-natural death, but it lives in it$Psuc-
cessors. each missionary society now haV-
ing it's halfpenny magazine for children
ana missionary literature Of world wide
press"
At the age of thirty this energetic cham
plon of missions was married to the Rev.
Samuel Luke, Congregational minister
she was twenty-five years a wife, and
has been thirty five years a widow "Lone-r
and with sigh at the thought of her
never conquered yearning to be a mis-
slonary, "and much as one may miss the
dear companionship, what blessed thing
It Is not to be Hindoo widow" To this
day her thoughts are with the Hndoo
women, and especially the child widows
whose sufferings on account Of the cruel
native customs have never ceased to be
sources of sympathetic suffering to the
gentle old hymn writer.
Mrs. Luke's two daughters died many
years ago, but she has a son and grand
children to comfort her declining years,
and lives lii her oEn pleasant home at
peace with all the world-except the
British government for which her
prayers ascend that it may mend its evil
ways, and cease to impose taxes to which
no Congregational conscience may submit
Happily the forthcoming auction sale
of some Of Mrs. Luke's household goods
to meet this hated tax is not likely to be
attended by much personal discomfort for
her, for the rule at these sales has hith-
erto been that friends and sympathizers
bid in the goods for the exact money de-
manded by the government. and then re-
store the property to the original owner.
Many an American would, l feel sure. bid
many times it's value for some trife from
the home of the author of one Of the most
famous hymns In the language