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more than twenty years. But one earthly wish now 

 remained. She asked in faith that she might live 

 to see her youngest child, a daughter, comfortably 

 settled in the world. God granted this desire also, 

 when, in response to one who knew of the matter, 

 and asked if she was then willing to depart, she said, 

 "Yes, glory be to God, I am now ready and willing to 

 go at any moment that he shall see best to call me ! " 

 For more than three years previous to her death she 

 was much afflicted with rheumatism, which entirely 

 deprived her of the use of the lower limbs of the 

 body, but under the acutest sufferings she rejoiced in 

 the love of God her Saviour. On the 24th of March, 

 1826, she called for the first volume of Dr. Clarke's 

 Commentary on the New Testament— a book almost 

 constantly in her hands — and read for some time, after 

 which her husband, now eighty-five years of age, who 

 held in his hand the second volume of the same work, 

 called her attention to some particular passage, to the 

 reading of which she seemed to listen with delight 

 until he had concluded. At this moment, rising to go 

 into an adjoining room, he saw her fall back on the 

 pillows by which she had been supported. His feeble 

 arms were extended in vain for her relief — the spirit 

 had flown, but her hand still grasped the blessed book 

 of God. The joy which beamed from her soul had 

 imprinted on her features an expression of holy tri- 

 umph which the conqueror, Death, was unable to 

 efface. This sainted woman was Martha Luallen, the 

 wife of Joseph Wofford, and the mother of the Rev. 

 Benjamin Wofford, the liberal founder of Wofford 

 College, in his native district of Spartanburg, in South 

 Carolina. 



