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quite takes away my strength. I wept over her who 

 well deserved many tears. I loved her when I married 

 her, and the longer I lived with her I loved her the 

 more. God pity the poor children, who were all tenderly 

 attached to her, and I am left alone in the world by one 

 whom I felt to be a part of myself. I hope it may, by 

 divine grace, lead me to realise heaven as my home, and 

 that she has but preceded me in the journey. Oh my 

 Mary, my Mary ! how often we have longed for a quiet 

 home, since you and I were cast adrift at Kolobeng ; 

 surely the removal by a kind Father who knoweth our 

 frame means that He rewarded you by taking you to the 

 best home, the eternal one in the heavens. The prayer 

 was found in her papers — ' Accept me, Lord, as I am, and 

 make me such as Thou wouldst have me to be.' He who 

 taught her to value this prayer would not leave His own 

 work unfinished. On a letter she had written, ' Let 

 others plead for pensions, I wrote to a friend I can be 

 rich without money ; I would give my services in the 

 world from uninterested motives ; I have motives for my 

 own conduct I would not exchange for a hundred pensions.' 



" She rests by the large baobab-tree at Shupanga, 

 which is sixty feet in circumference, and is mentioned in the 

 work of Commodore Owen. The men asked to be allowed 

 to mount guard till we had got the grave built up, and 

 we had it built with bricks dug from an old house. 



" From her boxes we find evidence that she intended 

 to make us all comfortable at Nyassa, though she seemed 

 to have a presentiment of an early death, — she purposed 

 to do more for me than ever. 



" Wih May, Kongone. — My dear, dear Mary has been 

 this evening a fortnight in heaven — absent frojn the 

 body, present with the Lord. To-day shalt thou be 

 with Me in Paradise. Angels carried her to Abraham's 

 bosom — to be with Christ is far better. Enoch, the 

 seventh from Adam, prophesied, ' Behold, the Lord cometh 



