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260 dren. This sainted mother requested Carrie to remain at home and become mother for her brothers and sisters. To most young women, thirsting for an education and seeing before them the opened way, having already begun to walk therein, this would have been a great trial. To Carrie it was a delight. No sacrifice seemed too dear for her to make for those little hearts hanging on hers. Plans for their best good engaged her mind the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning. The father was often conferred with and urged into vigilance respecting the welfare of those dear ones. When sick they claimed even her time for sleep, so close was her vigilance and untiring her efforts to render them comfortable. In 1882, after almost ten years of the above service, this faithful woman entered once more Estey Seminary. Like all sensible girls she had been wooed and loved, but when she found out that the suitor objected to her spending three years more at school to complete her course she unselfishly freed him from his obligation, at the same time inviting him to seek in some one else a helpmeet. It was the good fortune of the writer to enter school in the class of '85 alongside her. The three years we spent together in the Seminary afforded ample opportunity for the writer to see into the life of this unselfish soul-winner. Her efforts among the unsaved in school were uhtiring. During: revival efforts no soul among the saved was more burdened with the salvation of the unsaved than was this earnest one. Not only were these needy ones in school the objects of the most prayerful attention, but twice a week, in