252 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
a low, continued fever. For fourteen days she lived on, 
undergoing great pain, and gradually getting weaker and 
weaker. She ate nothing worth speaking of all the time, 
and was reduced to a mere skeleton. On the fifteenth day 
the complaint merged into a throat and lung disease which 
terminated in death on the 11th instant. We buried her 
next day, by the side of Wallis, who that very day, five 
months previously, had departed this life.” 
After the “Ripple” left them, Mr. and Mrs. Brown re- 
turned to Port Hunter, but their coming back to the old 
home was painful to them both, especially to Mrs. Brown. 
Everywhere in the house and on the mission property were 
they reminded of their lost children, and of the painful ex- 
periences through which Mrs. Brown had there passed. Yet 
through this valley of sorrow they were being led to pure 
and trusting faith, and who can tell if the sympathy and 
comfort which made fragrant the service of their future 
years did not begin to blossom in their own hearts amid the 
darkness and suffering of those terrible months? 
Certain it is, however, that where they labored from that 
time on, blessing came to thousands who were influenced 
for Christ by the sympathetic earnestness with which they 
entered into all their labors. By this way of suffering it 
has pleased the Lord to lead many of His workers who 
have wrought in His name in the South Seas; and by the 
influence of men and women who have thus suffered has the 
path been prepared by which our civilization has advanced 
to these erstwhile cannibals. 
Better, indeed, would it now be if all who benefit from 
contact with these peoples today would remember that every 
basis for present-day trade and commercial intercourse with 
them is pillared on the heroism of God’s missionaries, who 
without any purpose or prospect of personal gain, endured | 
only “as seeing Him who is invisible,” and counted nothing 
that they could sacrifice too dear to bring these debased peo- 
ples to Christ. We unreservedly honor the memories of all. 
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