Indeed, upon all with whom she came in contact there fell the impression of simplicity, sincerity, and all-pervasive good-will, which at once won reciprocal sympathy and friendship. Often and for long periods of time, she was a great sufferer from in- tense bodily pain, but from these baptisms of agony she always emerged with a spirit which was neither broken nor soured. Over all she was a serene and undoubted victor. Mrs. Stevenson was born to an inheritance and citizenship in the Commonwealth of Christ. She had a birthright in the Kingdom of Heaven. This high dignity and great blessing she openly claimed for herself in her early girlhood, and she stead- fastly held to it, prized it and rejoiced in it to the end. The Risen and Glorified Christ she implicitly trusted as her Saviour, and reverently adored as her Lord. She accepted with joy the responsibilities of the Christian life, discharged its duties with fidelity, and bore its trials with meekness and fortitude. His grace was sufficient for her. On Christmas night last, her sweet, chastened, modest and sainted spirit ascended out of the realm of shadows and suffering, into His presence, and she saw face to face, Him whom she had long loved and adored. Dear, suffering, sainted and victorious Friend, All Hail, and Farewell; till the shadows vanish and the darkness disappears ! Through the sacred portals of the home where she so long reigned as queen I shall not here and now attempt to pass. Into that sanctuary no outsider, however near, may presume to 38 LETITIA GREEN STEVENSON enter. It is enough to say that her husband praises her in the