The simple faith my dear wife had in Christ was with her to the end. I often asked her if she were happy in Christ, and she said “Yes.” She had no doubts or fears, she rested in her Saviour, and waited on the will of God. She thanked all for the kind and gentle way they had treated her. What my dear wife was to me for forty years, God alone knows. I shall be glad to see her again, when the Lord wills. It will be very lonely without her, but my Saviour will be with me, and be nearer and dearer to me, I trust, than ever before.
My wife was one with me in all my work and service for God, all our married life. The return of our Lord for His own was her daily hope. We often spoke of it together, and prayed that we might be one family in heaven, “forever altogether.” I shall earnestly pray that it may be so continually.
She was used by God to the conversion of many in her home, and when we traveled, and when we rested. She loved the Lord Jesus, and ever sought to serve Him, and as her brother said to me today, she was the means of blessing to thousands.
With one instance of blessing, I will close my painful and yet most loving task. Wherever she went she never shunned to declare her faith in her Saviour, and sought to bring others to Him.
During our last visit to Switzerland, when she was well, she was used by God to the conversion of our chambermaid. The girl could only speak German, but my wife, being conversant with the language, was able to put the gospel before her, and to lead her to Christ. The night of her conversion my wife had had a most earnest talk with her and prayed with her. Next morning the girl, with the tears running down her face, told my wife she had been weeping about her sins all through the night, but now she knew they were forgiven. Many happy letters my wife received from her after she left.
Pray for me that my grievous loss, which, is her gain, may be my gain also in a fuller knowledge of His love and will.