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time easier, and her mind was soon stored with more Scripture than those of many who could read. As she gained knowledge her love for Christ grew stronger, and as her happiness increased so did her desire that others, too, might share in it. In order to accomplish this she began to speak of Christ to those with whom she came in contact, and would repeat the texts she had learnt, to this, she wished to have larger opportunities of proclaimthat what she said was true. Not satisfied with ing the love of her Saviour, so she visited the markets and bazaars held in the neighbourhood; and, though it is not the custom of her country for females to speak to men who are strangers, she broke through the barrier, and He who came in her way, of a Saviour who left heaven and told the haughty Brahmin, or the Sudra, or any one else came to earth to seek the lost and save all those who put their trust in Him. Scorn or reproach did not deter her, for the love of Christ constrained her. And as years this-she was a woman of prayer. Her spirit seemed grow cold; and the secret of her strength, I think, lay in house, or under the shade of some large tree, or in some always to live in the atmosphere of prayer. In her one occasion, not to be forgotten, she visited the house When it was placed in her arms she raised her eyes to of the Missionary and requested to see the little baby.

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