se and went to the prayer-meeting,
feeling as my people do sometimes when they say to me after a visit,
'Oh! Mrs. Knowles, how your prayer has _rested_ me.'

"MARCH 23d.--A message came to-day, saying Mrs. L. was dying, and
wanted me to come at once. I went, and was helped in return to see
the triumph of spiritual over temporal things. The Lord was present
to bless us at the bedside of the dying one. Her trust and faith are
firm in Jesus, and her whole desire is to be with Him and see Him as
He is."

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Blessed hope, "to see Him as He is, and to be transformed into His
image." John declares:

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like
Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope
in him purifieth himself even as He is pure."

It was about this time that she penned in her diary the following
touching record of her toil. It reveals how sincere, diligent,
systematic, and unprejudiced she was in her work for Jesus, even
mentioning the names of the streets. She faithfully copied the example
and closely followed the directions of her master, given to Ananias at
the wonderful conversion of the great apostle of the Gentiles, when
giving directions how to find Saul of Tarsus:

"The Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called
Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of
Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth:

"And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting
his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.

"Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how
much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:

"And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that
call on thy name.

"But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto
me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of
Israel:

"_For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's
sake._"--Acts ix. 11-16.

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She writes: "I called on a woman in Broome Street who was convicted of
her lost condition and ready to yield to despair. Her mind had been
impressed by a letter from her husband who had gone West some time
since on business.

"He had been converted during