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honor; but for that serious and religious dis-
position which led her to improve these advan-
tages, to store her mind with learning, and to
give her thoughts to subjects far above the
ordinary pursuits or the frivolous pleasures of
youth, and for that moral heroism which led
her, the only daughter of an illustrious family,
at the age of twenty-four years, to turn away
from her ancestral halls that she might share
the fortunes of a God-serving Puritan minister
of the gospel, whose contest with the bishops
had already begun, when she chose to face the
grim uncertainties of the future, and to cast
her lot with his,--we cannot withhold from
her the just tribute of our respect and admiration.
The aged pastor felt more and more the terrible
calamity he had suffered in the loss of
his wife. His health began rapidly to fail;
and before another year had passed, he saw
that his stay in this world must be short.
While putting his house in order for the
coming of his Master, he was not unmindful of