American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . And oh ! what a soul of ardent, be-nevolent feeling swelled her breast! Her dearest friend, nearas he was to her, never felt that he fully comprehended it. Itsdepths he could not fathom, and it was to him a constant ob- 296 MRS. SARAH L. SMITH ject of admiration. Had her frame been as strong as her soulwas great and ardent, she might have been still going on inher course. But her bodily strength was literally consumedby the flame which burned within her. Now, however, she istied to no such clog to hinder her in her
American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . And oh ! what a soul of ardent, be-nevolent feeling swelled her breast! Her dearest friend, nearas he was to her, never felt that he fully comprehended it. Itsdepths he could not fathom, and it was to him a constant ob- 296 MRS. SARAH L. SMITH ject of admiration. Had her frame been as strong as her soulwas great and ardent, she might have been still going on inher course. But her bodily strength was literally consumedby the flame which burned within her. Now, however, she istied to no such clog to hinder her in her heavenly course; forsurely such a character was not brought to so high a degreeof excellence to be at once and forever extinguished by we doubt that she is transferred to scenes where her nobleheart finds scope for its most expanded emotions ? And mvichas limited views, and personal attachment, may tempt herfriends to feel that she was taken from earth too soon, hercharacter almost authorizes us to say that earth had her la-bors long after she was ripe for DANIEL TEMPLE Fac Simile from Letter dated Smyrna, July 3d, 1844.
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