ather to
consecrate even her sicknesses to His service.

Her standard of Christian life was a very high one. She thus writes of a
friend: "I write to you as one who is really wanting to follow Jesus
altogether, really wanting to live and speak _exactly_ according to His
commands and His beautiful example; and where this is the standard, what
seems a little thing or nothing at all to others, is sure to be sin,
because it is disobeying His dear Word and not 'following, _fully_.'"
Her intimate knowledge of Scripture, her sound common-sense kept her
from falling into many of the errors into which some who have aimed high
in holy things have fallen.

In a letter to her sister on this subject, she thus expresses herself:
"As to 'perfectionism' or 'sinlessness,' I have all along, and over and
over again, said I never did and do not hold either. 'Sinlessness'
belongs _only_ to Christ now, and to our glorified state in heaven. I
believe it to be not merely an impossibility on earth but an actual
contradiction of our very being, which cannot be 'sinless' till the
resurrection change has passed upon us. But being kept from falling,
kept from sins, is quite another thing, and the Bible seems to teem with
commands and promises about it. First, however, I would distinctly
state, that it is _only_ as and while a soul is under the full power of
the blood of Christ that it can be cleansed from all sin; that one
moment's withdrawal from that power, and it is again actively, because
really, sinning;... one instant of standing alone is certain fall."

While magnifying the Saviour's power to save, she had a just estimate of
her own condition; only about two years before her death she thus
expresses herself: "I can say for myself that I feel I have deserved the
very suffering of hell for my transgression of the first great
commandment of the law ('Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,' etc.), and
for my sin of unbelief." While she aimed high, she knew full well that
she had not attained, neither was already perfect.

"As to sanctification, that it is the work of the Holy Spirit, and
progressive, is the very thing I see and rejoice in. He has brought me
into the 'highway of holiness' up which I trust every day to progress,
continually pressing forward, led by the Spirit of God."

The simplicity of her trust in God and His Word comes out strikingly in
her writings. She seems to have grasped the fact that Jesus Christ was
"a living bright real