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suspected that what appeared, at first, to be simply 

 vertigo, was in reality, incipient paralysis. He 

 anade, however, his usual round of visits, and even 

 went to Summerville on parochial duty. 



An ill member of his congregation, Miss L. P., in 

 search of health, had been received in the home of 

 Charles S. Vedder, D. D., (now Pastor of the Hugue- 

 not Church, in Charleston). Warm-hearted, intelli- 

 gent, cultivated and an earnest seeker after truth, 

 she won the love of Pastor and friends. 



Doubts with regard to the doctrine of the Trinity,. 

 deterred her from uniting with the Church. Hap- 

 pily she w\as in the home of a minister, to whom she 

 could freely open her heart. As her health daily 

 declined, her soul craved for a closer communion 

 with her Lord. 



One morning, at dawn of day, a messenger in 

 haste, brought a letter from Dr. Vedder, explaining, 

 in a few w^ords, that the attendant physician pro- 

 nounced Miss P., near her end ; that she earnestly 

 desired to receive the Holy Sacrament, and entreated 

 her old pastor to come to her. 



The evening train from Summerville to Charles- 

 ton had already left, and in order that Dr. B. 

 might take the next morning's train, 6 A. M., the 

 messenger had ridden twenty miles, at night, on 

 horseback. 



Dr. B. reached his destination, and found his 

 dying parishioner eagerly expecting him. When he 

 had laid his hand upon her head and consecrated 

 her in life and death to the Triune God, and when 



