"Mrs. Lyth, like all who excel in piety, was a diligent and devout
student of the book of God. She not only read the scriptures, but she
searched them; she pondered their import, and meditated in them day
and night. The result was, the word of God dwelt in her richly, in
all wisdom, so that she was able to teach and admonish others with
singular propriety and power. Her accurate and extensive acquaintance
with the scriptures gave a richness and impressiveness to her
conversation, which awed the trifler, edified the thoughtful, and shed
light and comfort upon the minds of anxious inquirers. Many of her own
sex resorted to her for counsel as to an oracle; and as she generally
joined in prayer with her inquiring friends, her advices and cautions
became in numerous instances, as a "nail fastened in a sure place."
Her love for the Sanctuary amounted almost to a passion. In her
inner life it stood identified with vivid views of saving truth;
rich manifestations of Divine love, and transforming effusions of
sanctifying grace. When in health, neither weather, nor company, nor
any surmountable obstacle, could keep her at home, when it was open
for worship; and when enfeebled by age, she sought to improve each
gleam of sunshine, and each interval of returning strength, by paying
another visit to the sacred shrine, as if she thought each one might
be the last.
"Having yielded up her son at the call of the Church to the perils of
a Missionary life, in a land of cannibals, she never revoked the
gift, neither grudged the sacrifice.
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