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220 in the Baptist Church. She loved him above all earthly objects. He delighted in his child's devotion and sent her from him with a fatherly, devoted "God bless you, my child, and use you to save the heathen, God bless you!" In less than eighteen months after she had begun this work of "saving the heathen" this dear father was gathered with those found worthy to wear the crown. This news was enough to cause our heroine to say, "This is harder than I can bear," and give up in heart, but the brave heart said, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him." In speaking of her sainted father she would say, "I miss his prayers so much!" She kept joyfully at the task of winning the heathen to Christ. And ere her heart had time to heal came the startling news that her mother in the Lord, Miss S. B. Packard, had also joyfully gone up to wear the crown. This news found her just taking up new work at Lukunga Station, where more than five hundred lambs of God had been gathered in and awaited her devoted service. In two short years three of her dearest were heavenly! This urged her on to greater devotion, and to-day finds her in charge of a large press-work on the Station, a teacher in the first Congo Seminary, she being one of the founders, and having the oversight of three district schools taught by native teachers. Of the family of girls she took charge of at Palabala we see naught but what gladdens our hearts, as all have been saved through Christ. Africa has never had given her a purer life, a heart more devoted to her welfare and the salvation of her millions than is this devoted missionary. May her life be long