fter the midnight
of September 18 passed peacefully within 'the gate.' The story of the
closing scene was thus told by her husband:--

'Peking: Saturday, September 19, 1885.

'My dear Meech,--Emily crossed the river last night, or this
morning rather at 12.15.

'I was called in from the Friday evening prayer meeting just as it
was concluding, and found her with laboured breath and fixed eyes.
For a time we thought it was all to end at once. After a time she
got over it.

'10 P.M. was a repetition of 8 P.M.'s experience.

'At 12 midnight she was labouring much in her breath, coughed a
very little cough, and all at once the rapidity of her breath
nearly doubled, suddenly her hand fell over powerless, her eyes
became fixed, there was some difficult breathing, and with Mrs.
Henderson on the one side of the bed, which had been moved when we
came from the hills into the sitting-room, she departed.

'During these four hours she spoke little; once or twice she called
for milk, but for the most part contented herself with assenting or
dissenting to and from my remarks and suggestions by moving the
head.

'At 10.30, seeing me sleepy and desiring to sleep herself, she
asked me to go and lie down, but I said I would not do so while she
was so ill.

'I asked her if she felt all safe in the hands of Jesus. She nodded
her assent.

'Some month or six weeks ago we two had talked about everything to
be done in case of her death, the children, etc., and not only
then, but more than once we had talked over spiritual things,
because we feared that when the end came she might not be able to
speak. I am glad we did so. During these four hours she was either
in such great distress, or, when free from distress, was so tired
and eager to sleep, that talking was hardly possible.

'The "Rest" she so longed for she has now got.

'I treasure what she said one day when she had been, I think,
reading her wall text, "T_o me to live is Christ, to die is gain_,"
when I asked her if _she_ felt it so. She said she did, and often
would remark that to go would be far better for her, but she was so
eager to get well for my sake and that of the children. For
herself, too, she was more and more enchanted with the beauty God
had put