MISS HENRIETTA WILSON. XIU 



you all, for I know in whose care you are. The God 

 who comforted us in '56 (the year when Mr Wilson 

 died) will comfort still. It will be a very short time, 

 and we shall be all together again.'' She next reverted 

 to her uncle and her devoted attachment to him — " I 

 never could have thought that I should be able to live 

 seven years without him ; but God would not permit 

 me to rejoin him before weakening my idolatrous love 

 and fixing it more on Himself. I have had a very 

 happy life, and there is not much suffering even now. 

 No one knows what it is till they come to be here. 



Tell — [an aged friend] not to be afraid : she used 



to be timid ; but the waters of Jordan will be very low 

 when she has to cross." 



From that evening onward she spoke constantly and 

 cheerfully of the Father's house as one who was already 

 near it, dAvelling much on the finished work of the 

 Saviour. " Yes," she said, " it is a finished work. All 

 that I have to do is to lie down at the foot of the 

 cross." The texts in which she delighted were such 

 as these : — " Whosoever cometh unto me, I will in 

 nowise cast out;" "Looking unto Jesus;" ''Hold 

 thou me up, and I shall be safe;" " He shall sit as a 

 purifier and refiner ; " " Wash me, and I shall be clean ; " 

 " When thou passest through the waters, I will be with 



