Mrs. Sarah Potter, who is a beloved and dear lady, who is the bright
morning star of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, and who is one of
the brightest lights that this city has or ever will have, for she is
all over this city looking after the needy ones, comes from a noble
family and all of the family have been foreign missionaries. She has
been a home missionary for many years and God has blessed her and her
labors, and her dear father was doing missionary work in India for fifty
years, and God blessed his work there. Now that his dear work has been
finished in this world and he has gone to his reward, his works do
follow him, for the number that have been saved through his preaching
eternity will tell.

His form will no more walk out on the field of battle for the Lord, and
who can fill the place of such a life-work as this child of the King has
filled? And to go home to his beloved and blessed Master with his arms
full of blessed sheaves; and as we think of him, how we wonder in our
daily walks if we shall go to the Saviour with our hands full or shall
we go empty-handed and thus to meet our Saviour so; not one soul with
which to greet Him, must we empty-handed go?

I have heard of Mr. Mason as one of the first to go among the Coreans,
and I have seen some of them, that have taken the Lord for their all and
in all, come to this land of ours to fit themselves for the blessed work
among their own people. God be praised for such a man as Dr. Mason and
all of his loving children, who have had the same spirit that their
father had, and he was filled with the Holy Ghost and with the power of
the Lord.

Mrs. Sarah W. Potter was the beloved wife of a sea captain, Mr. William
Potter, and he owned a ship that sailed the Indian Ocean, and he was
washed overboard one night while his wife, Mrs. Potter, was sick, and
she did not know that he had a watery grave until the next day. They had
one son, who is now married, by the name of Frank, whom I held as an
idol, as he always called to me when in trouble, for his dear mother
taught him the love of the Bible, and he would not fight any boy, let
them do him as they would. He knew that I would go after the boys for
blocks, as I was one of those soldiers that was not afraid to fight. As
he grew older I told him that he had to go out into the world to fight
his way and I wanted him to begin it at once, and he did learn to battle
for himself. He married a lovely girl by the name o