. In memoriam, Mrs. James Sprunt. ry keen mind and one capable of dis-cerning ability in others, she encouraged allmental effort and set in operation valuableresearch work which has been of the greatestbenefit to the State at large. In conversation she was most found intellectual people turning natu-rally to her, and her wide and varied experi-ence gave an authority to her opinion on allsubjects. Her loyalty to her family and her devotionto each member of it was as beautiful as itwas intense. She held them together by hervery love for them and her unstinted appre-ciation. Her per
. In memoriam, Mrs. James Sprunt. ry keen mind and one capable of dis-cerning ability in others, she encouraged allmental effort and set in operation valuableresearch work which has been of the greatestbenefit to the State at large. In conversation she was most found intellectual people turning natu-rally to her, and her wide and varied experi-ence gave an authority to her opinion on allsubjects. Her loyalty to her family and her devotionto each member of it was as beautiful as itwas intense. She held them together by hervery love for them and her unstinted appre-ciation. Her personal pleasures were few, or, to bemore exact, she found her pleasure in makingothers happy. Her charity was so broad thatshe found good in every one and realized thedifficulties and temptations of every character possessed in fact a symmetrythat one could not fail to perceive and appre-ciate. Her love of justice and sincerity wasas pronounced as her charity and generosity,and to the day of her death she clung fast to 26. LUOLA MURCHISON, AT THE AGE OF 20 YEARS her lifelong habit of bearing the burdens ofothers, of glorifying God In her body, whichwas His, and which she confidently expectedwould bear the image of the heavenly even asit had borne the image of the earthly. —Jeanie Dalziel tVood. Fold her, Oh Father! in Thine arms, And let her henceforth beA messenger of love betweenOur hearts and Thee. I have come to the conclusion, remember-ing all I can of her remarkable personalityand wonderful life, that she was, like , one of those women who ministeredto Him. How different they were, thosetwo, and yet how alike in purpose. To eachof them belongs every word of Solomonsinspired description of the wise woman. Eachof them, while she strived for the noblestand gentlest virtues of the woman of yester-day, devoted to her home and family, con-servative and domestic, had caught the far-thest vision and entered into the highest tasksof the woman of today, who is a
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