whose life was more devoted to ministering 

 to the sorrows and infirmities of others?" 



Every one who had ever had the slightest 

 dealing with her remembered now that he 

 had felt during the contact, no matter how 

 brief, the strength of her character and a 

 sense of courage imparted to him. 



To the poor she came with material com- 

 forts ; to the sick she came with plans looking 

 to their restoration to health and strength ; to 

 her friends she came in every crisis, in every 

 difficulty of their lives and with unfaltering 

 purpose and untiring devotion shared and 

 lightened their burdens ; to her family, to her 

 husband, to her children, she has been the 

 very center of life. Her love seemed almost 

 inspired and indeed it had its well-spring in 

 the eternal God Himself, to Whose care she 

 was continually confiding her dear ones, and 

 to Whom so many were given for the ever- 

 lasting keeping. 



Mrs. Sprunt had been a semi-invalid for 

 more than a year, and to those who were near 

 her it seemed as though she realized the time 

 was short and spent every minute doing some- 

 thing for some one in need of material or 

 spiritual things or else in planning now a hos- 

 pital, now a school, now a church — always 

 something for the amelioration of suffering or 

 the uplift of humanity. 



One felt, however, that Mrs. Sprunt with- 

 drew herself from all publicity. She was re- 



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