e were so much more valuable than mine? I don't want to die,
and such a death; but if it comes, well, it will be for a little, and
after, no more sorrow--no pain. Day by day we are without knowledge of
what news may come! Darling mother, don't be anxious whatever news you
may hear of me. It will be useless in the eyes of the world to come
out here for a year, to be just getting on with the language and then
to be cut off. Many will say, 'Why did she go? Wasted life!'
Darling, _No_. Trust; God does His very best, and never makes
mistakes. There are promises in the Word that the Lord will save His
servants, and deliver them from the hands of evil men. Dear, it may be
the deliverances will come through death, and His hands will receive,
not the corruptible, but the incorruptible, glorified spirit.'

Early the following morning, just as they were about to begin
breakfast, a friendly Chinaman arrived, with the warning, that a party
of Boxers was coming up the mountains and searching everywhere on the
way for them. Instant departure was imperative, so, snatching up their
Bibles and a few biscuits, they hurried off higher up the mountains,
halting only for a few minutes among some native Christians, to deliver
three short prayers. Their Christian guide hurried them onward when
the last prayer was finished, and soon they were climbing up steep,
unfrequented sheep-paths. A ruined temple on the top of a mountain was
to be their hiding-place, and when they reached it, tired out, they lay
down on the ground with stones for their pillows.

How long they remained hiding in this mountain-top temple is unknown.
Nor, as the last entry in May Nathan's letter is dated July 23, do we
know the sufferings which they underwent during the next three weeks.
All that is certain is that, after wandering about the mountains, they
were captured by the Boxers on August 12, and dragged to a temple near
Lu-kia-yao, where, hungry and thirsty, they were compelled to spend the
night surrounded by a mob of fiends. At day-break they were brought
out and killed.

[1] _Last Letters and Further Records of Martyred Missionaries of the
China Inland Mission_. Edited by Marshall Broomhall. (Morgan and
Scott.)

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