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home, and friends, and other pleasant things of this world: but 
he receives an hundredfold when he sees the dark prisoners of 
Satan coming out of the bondage of corruption ; and the tide 
of deep warm love to the Lord of Life springing up in their 
hearts—a love which purifies them—which makes them tender- 
hearted, forbearing and forgiving, and clothes them with those 
graces of christian gentleness and humility which render them 
amiable and lovable. Let them explain also one of the chief 
secrets of the missionary’s success. Mrs, Geddie, when she had 
lost her own daughter, said to Mary Anne, “You must take her 
place ; you must be a daughter to me, and love me and help 
me ; and I will be a mother to you, and will love and help 
you.” This wds not a piece of sentiment. It was a true 
outgoing of christian love to that dark child. And it was this 
tender love, growing up between Mr. and Mrs. Geddie and 
their children in the Lord, that bound them to their,island 
home for twenty-two years, and sustained them through that long 
isolation. That love of their children and that j joy. of the Lord 
were their strength. 
