io6 THE WORLD'S WORKERS. 



of her, that whatever she found to do she did it with 

 her might. She threw into the Sunday school, the 

 Dorcas Society, or what not, the same concentration 

 of purpose and undivided attention that were required 

 for much larger and more public matters ; and the 

 entire absence of self-consciousness was the same 

 wherever she was and in whatever company. 



" Her other most marked characteristic was, I 

 think, religiousness pure and simple. Free from 

 any suspicion of cant, it was yet plainly to be seen 

 that, like Enoch, she walked with God, and from Him 

 derived her strength and unfailing hope. 



" Her family affections were very strong, and I 

 well remember how when a near and dear relative 

 who had hitherto worked with her was about to 

 marry, she said in her quaint way, half reproachfully, 

 half humorously, ' It is really wonderful how readily 



dear has taken up the idea of matrimony.' For 



she knew that the said * idea/ when carried out, would 

 in most cases prove a loss to the ' good cause.' 



" But there was nothing sour, nothing ' old 

 maidish ' about her. Indeed, she was a very 

 woman, large-hearted and high-souled, and one 

 whose like those who remember her can hardly ex- 

 pect to look upon again." 



About two years after the opening of the Red 

 Lodge, Mrs. Carpenter, Mary's mother, with whom 

 she lived, died. This was a great trial. Mrs. Car- 

 penter was a broad-spirited, noble woman. She had 



