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the doctor, when he informed her of her danger, she expressed her
confidence that "to die would be gain," and urged upon him the
importance of living always in a state of preparation for death. He
had no sooner left the room than, turning to her daughter, with a look
of ecstacy, she said, "I am going home, Mary." In consequence of her
extreme debility, the difficulty of her breathing and expectoration
occasioned her much suffering, which she bore with exemplary patience;
and when it was referred to, replied, "It is all right." At another
time when an allusion was made to her sufferings, her reply was,
"Patient the appointed race to run." Her daughter read to her the
beautiful hymn, commencing, "The God of Abraham praise," to which she
listened with great attention, and on coming to the lines,
"He calls a worm His friend,
He calls Himself my God,
And He shall save me to the end,
Through Jesus' blood;"
she exclaimed, with her eyes raised to heaven, and her hands uplifted,
"Glory! glory!"
During the night her daughter, who watched by her side, overheard her
say, "My heart and my flesh faileth, but God is the strength of my
heart, and _my portion for ever_," emphasizing the last words. It was
whispered--
"And above the rest this note shall swell,"
when she instantly took up the words, and with a heavenly smile
completed the stanza,
"My Jesus hath done all things well."
The same tender solicitude for others, especially those of her own
family, which had ever characterized her, was still manifest in her
utmost weakness.
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