. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . or sing Rock of Ages, for any sick pauper who askedher. As she got older, there were days when she was a little sharp, but forthe most part Auntie was a sunbeam—just the one for Christmas eve. Sheknew better than any one else how to fix things. Her every prayer, as Godheard it, was full of everybody who had trouble. The brightest things in allthe house dropped from her fingers. She had peculiar notions, but the grandestnotion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well—Auntie alwaysdressed well; but her highest adornment
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . or sing Rock of Ages, for any sick pauper who askedher. As she got older, there were days when she was a little sharp, but forthe most part Auntie was a sunbeam—just the one for Christmas eve. Sheknew better than any one else how to fix things. Her every prayer, as Godheard it, was full of everybody who had trouble. The brightest things in allthe house dropped from her fingers. She had peculiar notions, but the grandestnotion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well—Auntie alwaysdressed well; but her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit,which, in the sight of God, is of great price. At about seventy years of age she made her last visit to my house, andwhen she sat in my Philadelphia church I was more embarrassed at her presencethan by all the audience, because I felt that in religion I had got no furtherthan the ABC, while she had learned the whole alphabet, and for many yearshad finished the Y and Z. When she went out of this life into the next, what. DR. GOYN TALMAGE AND DAUGHTERS a shout there must have been in heaven, from the front door clear up to the backseat in the highest gallery! I saw the other day in the village cemetery of Somer-ville, N. J., her resting-place, the tombstone having on it the words which, thirtyyears ago she told me she would like to have inscribed there, namely: TheMorning Cometh. Had she a mission in the world? Certainly. As much as Caroline Her-schel, first amanuensis for her illustrious brother, and then his assistant in astro-nomical calculations, and then discovering worlds for herself, dying at ninety-eight years of age, still busy with the stars till she sped beyond them; as muchas had Florence Nightingale, the nurse of the Crimea; or Grace Darling, theOarswoman of the Long Stone Lighthouse; or Mary Lyon, the teacher of Mount DR. TALMAGES ANCESTRY 23 Holvoke Female Seminary; or Hannah More, the Christian authoress of Eng-land ; or Do
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