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Brown’s trouble, and her Christian patience and faith while 
passing through such deep waters. 
“And I wish the world to know how that, when nursing 
her dear little boy Wallis, expecting him to die every mo- 
ment, she had still a kindly word of encouragement for me, 
as I lay on the sofa too weak to move myself, and expecting 
every moment to hear of my wife’s death. I well remember 
that morning, for one of our teachers had just returned, 
bringing with him two other teachers, who were also at 
death’s door. He sat on the floor close to my side, and the 
tears came into his eyes as he looked at me lying there so 
helpless ; and when he told me of the state of the two teach- 
ers he had brought across, I could stand it no longer, but 
burst into an agony of tears and felt utterly desolate. 
“T am not given to crying, but I don’t think any one will 
charge me with unmanliness for so doing, if it be remem- 
bered how that one of Mrs. Brown’s children was at the 
point of death, another seriously ill, Mrs. Danks in a semi- 
conscious state, and myself unable to get about. In the 
midst of all this, Mrs. Brown moved about the house, sup- 
plying all our bodily wants, and giving words of comfort 
even when her own load was too heavy to carry. 
“No one can possibly know the desolation of our house 
after the departure of Wallis. My heart ached for poor 
Mrs. Brown, as she went about the house with tearful eyes 
and stooping gait, as though the inward burden was exer- 
cising not only a mental but a physical influence upon her. 
When she went upstairs and locked the storeroom door, we 
knew what it was for—that she might weep in silence over 
the dear departed one. As she walked outside in the cool 
of the evening, we knew why she did so—that she might 
weep at the little one’s grave. As our heads bowed in prayer, 
the tear unbidden would flow; and thus for months. 
“We were at last beginning to get over that, when this 
last affliction came, which has again made a gap in Mr. 
Brown’s family. On February 2, Mabel was taken ill with 
