rning to
her sister, "Marie, it is really very remarkable how everything I do
seems to prosper and nourish. There is my 'Bruey Branch' growing and
increasing, and now the temperance work, and so many letters tell me
that God is blessing my little books."

The "Bruey Branch" here mentioned was an effort to get children to
interest themselves in the Irish Society, and met with signal success.
It had been started two years previously with eight collectors--now
hundreds of collecting cards had gone out.

Of her temperance work she writes a little later: "May, 1879. I haven't
taken up teetotal work, but teetotal work has taken up me! Morgan and
Scott made me accept a big handsome pledge-book in February, and somehow
the thing has fairly _caught fire_ here. One led to another, and
yesterday boys were coming all day to sign. I had twenty-five recruits
yesterday alone, and a whole squad more are coming this evening! and we
are going in for getting EVERY boy in the whole village! and now
'Please, miss, mayn't girls sign?' So I've got to open a girls' branch
as well! So work grows!" Again, "Really a wonderful little temperance
work here; all the rising generation have joined the pledge except about
twelve, and now the men want to speak to me and I am to meet them
to-night at the corner of the village (open air, having no place else)
with my pledge-book. I have got 118 pledged, and each with prayer over
it and personal talk about better things." On May 21 she met these men,
carrying with her her Bible and temperance book. While standing, heavy
clouds came up, and she was obliged to return home, wet and chilly,
though some men were still waiting to speak to her. The next day
(Thursday) she managed to get to church and received the Lord's Supper.
She was very tired with the service, and rode home on a donkey. As she
passed through the village, quite a procession of her boys followed her.
She urged her donkey boy to "leave the devil's side and get on the safe
side; that Jesus Christ was the winning side; that He loved him, and was
calling him, and wouldn't he choose Him for his Captain?" Arrived at
home, she ran in for her temperance book, and the boy signed it on the
saddle. That evening she spoke to several persons with intense
earnestness and pleading.

The next day she was to have attended a temperance meeting and have
presented 150 cards to those who had signed her book; but the chilliness
increased, and the doctor forbade he