The San Francisco call., 1904-02-28

p" oh, Jemima made it, " was the re-
ply.
"On the Monday he asked me for
copy Of the words and tune. This he
sent, with name and address in full,
70 the Sunday School Teachers Maga-
zine"
One immediate result of the publica-
tion Of the hymn was to bring 10 Je-
NINA ThOmpson-as she then was-the
offer 10 edit a missionary magazine for
children called the Missionary Reposi-
tory.
1t was suitable and congenial work"
she writes, "and l welcomed it as gra-
ciOusly sent from above TO fill UP the
blank in my prospects. l soon became
much interested in the undertaking and
the circulation increased rapidly 1t
was not limited to one missionary So
ciety, but gathered facts of interest
from all. 1t brought me some delight
full correspondents, and among my
most kind and faithful helpers were
James Edgerton, Robert Moffat,
James Montgomery, Anna Braithwaite,
Z. NJ. Jackson and Mrs. Mortimer of
Peep Of Day celebrity. One contribu-
tion came from DR.. Livingstone; also
letters Of announcement from Isaac
Taylor DR.. Harris and Bishop Sum-
ner, afterward Archbishop of Canter-
bury"
In connection with the magazine
work the editor wrote one day a short
missionary story to be read TO chill
dren, which was received so we'll that
in time thirty little books of the sort
came TO be written by her, of which
half million copies were circulated.
Sunday schools in these days." says
Mrs. Luke, with pardonable pride
contribute many thousands to the
funds Of their various missionary So
cieties, and, as is often the case with
great movements, their adhesion TO the
cause had this small and simple be-
ginning. 1t is also from the ranks of
Sunday school teachers that the forces
Of the missionary societies have been
continually supplied. The Missionary
Repository has long since died a nat
ural death, but it lives in its success
sors, each missionary society now hav-
ing its half-penny missionary maga-
zine for children, and missionary liter
ature Of world wide interest is con-
stantly issuing from the PRESS
MARRIES AT THIRTY.
At the age Of 80 years this energetic
champion Of missions was married to
the Rev. Samuel Luke a Congrega-
tional minister. She was twenty-five
years a wife and has been thirty-fve
years a widow. Lonely as the life may
be" she says naively, and with a sigh
TT the thought Of her never conquered
yearning to be a Missionary, "and much
as one may miss the dear companion
ship, what a blessed thing it is not to
be a Hindoo widow" To this day her
thoughts are with the Hindoo women,
and especially the child-widows, whose
sufferings on account Of the cruel ma
tive 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 son and grand
children to comfort her declining years
and lives in her own 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
of some Of Mrs. Luke's household goods
TO meet this hated tax is not likely to
be attended by much personal discom-
fort for her, for the rule at these sales
hitherto has been that friends and
sympathizers bid in the goods for the
exact money demanded by the Govern
ment and then restore the property to
the original owner. Many an American
L. IL
value for some trifie from the home of
the author of one of the most famous
hymns in the language.
AMERICANS IN LONDON.
Mrs. Claude Ponsonby. who was Miss
Horwitz of Baltimore. is receiving con-
dolences from every one at the neces-
sity which has compelled her to shut
up her delightful London house in
Queens Gate terrace to spend the win
ter in the Pyrenees. This is no less Sc
rious a matter than the i'll health of
her little son Harold. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ponsonby have taken a pretty little
villa at Pc, though the place has for
them a very sad memory. for it was
there that they lost their other little
son of typhoid. 1t is at the house in
Queens Gate terrace that Mrs. Ponson-
by keeps all the best of the works of art
collected by the late Hon. Ashley Pom
sonby, her father-in-law, and his father,
Lord de Mauley. The Ponsonbys al
ways have appointments at the British
court, Claude Ponsonby's cousin, Cap
tain Fritz Ponsonby, being now the
favorite equerry Of King Edward VII.
1t is expected that while at Po Mrs.
Ponsonby will receive visit from her
mother, Mrs. Horwitz. who lives at
Rome, having bought one of the glor-
ious old palaces of the Roman aris-
tocracy, to which she has added mod
nrn conveniences Including won