Here is another tender and terse tribute from the same source to their
only son--the request for particulars regarding their last illness,
which produced the leaflet entitled "A Short Account of the Last
Hours"--that has been already a rich spiritual blessing to many souls.

UTICA, N.Y., November, 1886.

MR. WM. KNOWLES:

DEAR BROTHER--We have just learned of the departure of your dear
parents. Our attachment to them was exceptionally strong, even as
our association in the Master's work was intimate.

I have been looking over your father's letters, too few in numbers;
how full of human kindness, how intensely godly.

Be assured of our sincere regard for you and others in this great
bereavement.

May we not receive, at your convenience, particulars of their last
illness and going? We have no knowledge of either case.

Very sincerely yours,

GEORGE O. PHELPS.

* * * * * *

The subjoined is the answer to the reception of the account of their
last hours on earth.

UTICA N.Y., November 30, 1886.

MR. WM. KNOWLES:

MY DEAR SIR AND BROTHER--You have laid us under great obligation by
your lengthy and painstaking statement respecting your lamented
parents. Seldom have we been affected so deeply as in the reading of
it, which came so appropriately as to time and feeling, just as we
were closing one of the sweetest meetings of our little "_Gospel
Band_." Yes, truly, those dear, true friends of ours were as "little
children" in "the Kingdom of Heaven."

Nothing would afford me greater satisfaction than to be able to add
further by word or incident what you desire to gather up by way of
a grateful memorial. As I stated in my letter to Mr. Young, my
impressions were made by their uniform consistency of character,
and not by any particular event or circumstance. Perhaps the
enclosed letters will afford characteristic illustration of your
father's habitual godliness or tenor of life. As to your mother,
why, she was always "going about doing good," seemingly never
tiring.

What death-bed scenes! If those faithful words of hers are ever
forgotten, somebody will have a hard witness against them at last.
Their memory is indeed blessed. We will all try to profit by their
examples of godly fidelity, and faithful admonitions. With the
sincer