have of her work, her hope, her sorrow, and her
submission.

2 SULYARDE TERRACE, TORQUAY, _10th February 1874_.

MY DEAR FRIENDS--I feel that both you and I have had a very great
loss indeed, and my heart yearns to say to you that you do not know
how grieved I am for you; you know full well what the loss is to
yourselves, but you can hardly tell what it is to me; you cannot
know how he who is now taken and I have worked together with the
self-same end of helping you, and now I am left, deprived of all
the help that your dear and true friend gave me, and it is
impossible for me to tell you how deeply I feel the loss.

Mr. Levy never spared himself when your interest was at stake, and
now that he is taken from us, and I am left alone, I feel that I
must ask you all to give me all the help in your power, and you can
help me by giving me your confidence, by showing me that you feel I
will do the best I can for you, and, above all, by trying, with
God's help, to become the men and women He would have you to be.
Nothing gives me greater joy than for the Association to be the
means of helping you, by God's blessing, to lead really Christian
lives. This means that you should have in your hearts the love of
God and the love of your neighbour, which love will prevent you
hurting anybody by word or deed, make you true and just in all your
dealings, and temperate and sober in your living. My earnest desire
is that the Association should help you to learn and labour truly
to get your own living; but you know that this must be a work of
time. If I could prevent it there should not be one blind person
begging, but all should have the blessing of earning their living;
but, as I say, it will take a long time to bring this to pass. Had
I been asked I should have said, "You would do better without me
than without him who is taken from us; but God does not ask us, and
does what He sees and knows to be best, and He has taken Mr. Levy
to his rest and reward, and has left me."

If it is His will that I should have strength, I will, with His
help and with the aid of the friends engaged in the work, do the
best I can. Many of you I have never seen; I wish this were not so,
but I cannot help it; but to you all I earnestly say: please think
of me as of o