evidently a woman of remarkable power. If her life had been
published, we are convinced that it would have been a notable one in
missionary biography. Heart and head were evidently of no common
calibre. Perhaps it is not yet too late for some friend to think
of this.]

"_Kuruman, December_ 4, 1856.--MY DEAREST MARY,--In
proportion to the anxiety I have experienced about you and
your dear husband for some years past, so now is my joy and
satisfaction; even though we have not yet heard the glad
tidings of your having really met, but this for the present
we take for granted. Having from the first been in a subdued
and chastened state of mind on the subject, I endeavor still
to be moderate in my joy. With regard to you both ofttimes
has the sentence of death been passed in my mind, and at such
seasons I dared not, desired not, to rebel, submissively
leaving all to the Divine disposal; but I now feel that this
has been a suitable preparation for what is before me, having
to contemplate a complete separation from you till that day
when we meet with the spirits of just men made perfect in the
kingdom of our Father. Yes, I do feel solemn at death, but
there is no melancholy about it, for what is our life, so
short and so transient? And seeing it is so, we should be
happy to do or to suffer as much as we can for him who bought
us with his blood. Should you go to those wilds which God has
enabled your husband, through numerous dangers and deaths, to
penetrate, there to spend the remainder of your life, and as
a consequence there to suffer manifold privations, in
addition to those trials through which you have already
passed--and they have not been few (for you had a hard life
in this interior)--you will not think all _too much_, when
you stand with that multitude who have washed their robes in
the blood of the Lamb!

"Yet, my dear Mary, while we are yet in the flesh my heart
will yearn over you. You are my own dear child, my
first-born, and recent circumstances have had a tendency to
make me feel still more tenderly toward you, and deeply as I
have sympathized with you for the last few years, I shall not
cease to do so for the future. Already is my imagination busy
picturing the various scenes through which you must pass,
from the first transport of joy