complain,
for I was so much better off than the sick boys._" The italics are ours,
not hers. She never put her own ease before her care for "the sick
boys."

She not only attended to the temporal comforts of the soldiers, but she
was equally interested in their spiritual welfare, and was wont to go to
the meetings of the Christian Commission. Her letters home and to her
friends, were full of details of these meetings, and her heart
overflowed with Christian love as she spoke of the brave soldiers rising
in scores to ask for the prayers of God's people.

She continued her labors, as far as possible, on her recovery, but was
unable to do all that her heart prompted her to attempt. She was urged
by her friends at home to return and recruit her strength. In her brief
journal she alludes to this, but says, "Another battle is expected; and
then our poor crippled boys will need all the care that we can give. God
grant that we may do something for them!"

Two days after writing this, in her chilly, leaking tent, she was
prostrated again. She was unwilling at first that her family should be
made uneasy by sending for them. But her disease soon began to make
rapid and alarming progress. She consented that they should be summoned.
But on the 21st of December, 1864, the day after this consent was
obtained, she passed away to her rest. Like a faithful soldier, she died
at her post.

She was in early life led to put her trust in Christ, and was baptized
about thirty years ago, by her father, on confession of her faith. She
continued from that time a loved member of the Lower Merion Baptist
church. In her last hours she still rested with a calm, child-like
composure on the finished work of Christ. Though called to die, with
none of her own kindred about her, she was blessed with the presence of
her Lord, who, having loved his own, loves them unto the end.

Her remains were laid beside those of her father, in the cemetery of the
Baptist church at Roxborough, Pa., on Friday, the 30th of December,
1864. A number of the convalescent soldiers from the Filbert Street
Hospital in the city, with which she was connected, attended her
funeral; and her bier was borne by four of those who had so far
recovered as to be able to perform this last office for their departed
friend.

Her memory will long be cherished by those who knew her best, and tears
often shed over her grave by the brave soldiers whom she nursed in their
sickness.

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