MISS HENEIETTA WILSON. XV 



word." She often repeated two lines from a German 

 hymn — 



" Suffer on, and hope, and wait, 

 Jesus never comes too late." 



One morning she said it had long been pleasant to 

 her to believe that in a higher state of existence many 

 of our present pursuits may be resumed and perfected. 

 Reference was made to what Dr Candlish says in his 

 "Life in a Risen Saviour." "Yes," slie subjoined, 

 " tliey are deliglitful sermons. Dr James Alexander 

 lias also some striking remarks on the same subject. I 

 copied them out ; and I can truly say that many of 

 my employments here were followed out in the hope 

 of resuming them in eternity." 



All throughout her mind continued bright, and free 

 from clouds and fears, and her only concern was the 

 trouble which her feebleness occasioned to others. 

 " After this you must take a long rest/' she said to her 

 cousin, who answered, " I would far rather work as 

 you have done ;" and when her attached servants were 

 raising her in bed, she said, " I am a great bother,'' but 

 added, " Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of 

 these my brethren, ye did it unto me." On the morn- 

 ing that she died she heard that a valued friend was 

 ailing. She expressed much sympathy, observing, " I 



