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. Her maternal yearnings were often
excited by the narration of his sufferings and privations; but they
were never suffered to rise in mutinous rebellion against the Divine
will. For nearly twenty-two years she not only submitted to his
absence with uncomplaining meekness, but she abounded in thanksgivings
on his account, and gloried in the sacrificial services he was enabled
to render to the cause of the Redeemer, in the high places of the
field.

"Mrs. Lyth's religion made her habitually happy. Fully assured of
her acceptance in the Beloved, walking daily in the liberty of the
children of God, and exercising herself to have always a conscience
void of offence, the smile of contentment rested on her countenance;
benignity beamed in her eye; the law of love regulated her speech,
while kindness, courtesy, and a cheerful urbanity, marked the whole of
her deportment. In her dress she was simple, neat and economical.
In her habits, she was a pattern of order, early rising, diligence,
promptitude, and punctuality. Possessing inward peace, she was calm,
self-possessed, firm, and full of trust in the providence of God.
Doing one thing at a time, and always intent upon doing that thing
well, she accomplished a great amount of holy service; was seldom in
a hurry, and always in time at the Sanctuary and Class-meeting. With
such traits of character, and modes of action, it will not excite
surprise that she became a centre of religions influence in the
community to which she belonged. The sick sought her prayers, persons
in spiritual distress, and temporal perplexity,