d that luminous face! The oil within that shining lamp was
used up in this world and its light was extinguished; and yet, in the
lamp-niche of the Kingdom, the fingers of the Lord of the heavenly throne
have kindled it so bright, and it has cast such a splendour on the maids
of Heaven--dwelling in chambers of red rubies and circling about her--that
they all called from out their souls and hearts, 'O joy upon joy!' and
with shouts of, 'Well done! Well done! Upon thee be God's blessings, O
Most Exalted Leaf!' did they welcome that quintessence of love and purity
within the towering pavilions of eternity.

At that time, as bidden by the Lord, the Protector, the Self-Subsisting,
did the heavenly Crier raise up his voice and cry out: 'O Most Exalted
Leaf! Thou art she who did endure with patience in God's way from thine
earliest childhood and throughout all thy life, and did bear in His
pathway what none other hath borne, save only God in His own Self, the
Supreme Ruler over all created things, and before Him, His noble Herald,
and after Him, His holy Branch, the One, the Inaccessible, the Most High.
The people of the Concourse on High seek the fragrance of thy presence,
and the dwellers in the retreats of eternity circle about thee. To this
bear witness the souls of the cherubim within the tabernacles of majesty
and might, and beyond them the tongue of God the One True Lord, the Pure,
the Most Wondrous. Blessedness be thine and a goodly abode; glad tidings
to thee and a happy ending!'

To one who was reared by the hands of her loving kindness, the burden of
this direst of calamities is well nigh unbearable; and yet praised be the
God of glory that her fragile frame has escaped from the prison of
continual ordeals and afflictions which, with an astonishing forbearance,
and for more than eighty years, she accepted and endured. Now is she free;
delivered from her chains of care and sorrow; safe from all the suffering
and pain, released from the ills of this nether world. She rolled up and
packed away the years of longing for her mighty Father, and for Him, her
loving and well-favoured Brother, and departed to her abode in the midmost
heart of the Heavens.

This heavenly being, during all the turmoil of her days, did not rest for
a moment, nor ever did she seek quiet and peace. From the beginning of her
life, from her very childhood, she tasted sorrow's cup; she drank down the
afflictions and calamities of the earliest years o