sing, but after one sweet high note—­’HE—­,’ her voice failed, and as her brother commended her soul into her Redeemer’s hand, she passed away.  Our precious sister was gone, satisfied, glorified, within the palace of her King.”  And so she fell asleep, and her eyes saw the King in His beauty—­that King of whom she sung so sweetly and wrote so loyally.  On June 9 they laid her body to rest in the quiet churchyard of Astley Church in Worcestershire.

And thus within sight of the room which saw her birth, her body lies “until the day dawn.”

VIII.

“UNDER THE SURFACE.”

Upon the surface you saw a bright, accomplished lady.  She had marked ability as a linguist.  She acquired a great deal of German as a child by carefully attending while present at the German lessons given to her sisters.  She learnt enough Greek and Hebrew to read her Hebrew Bible and to enjoy her Greek Testament, and often brings out in her letters the fact that she had been studying it.  As we have seen, she was an accomplished musician, and she was untiring in her literary productions.  Her books of poems comprise Life-Chords, consisting of “Under His shadow,”—­“Her last poems”—­“Loyal Responses,” and “Her earlier poems;” Life Mosaic, comprising “The Ministry of Song,” and “Under the Surface;” Swiss Letters and Alpine Poems, written during several tours in Switzerland.

Her chief prose works Kept for the Master’s Use, The Royal Invitation, My King, Royal Commandments, Royal Bounty, Starlight through Shadows, Morning Stars, Morning Bells, Little Pillows, and Bruey, a little Worker for Christ.

Upon the surface, too, you saw a woman of sound-common sense.  This was evidenced both in her writings, and her daily life.  For example, she writes thus one day:  “I felt as if I rather wanted a little intellectual bracing, as if something of contact with intellect were necessary to prevent my getting into a weak and wishy-washy kind of thought and language.  I like intellects to rub against and have no present access to books which would do it, so I bethought myself of seeing what Shakespeare would do for me and I think my motive was really that I might polish my own instruments for the Master’s use.”

Again, as regards dress her sensible comment was, “If the King’s daughter is to be ‘all glorious within,’ she must not be outwardly a fright!  I must dress both as a lady and a Christian.  The question of cost I see very strongly, and do not consider myself at liberty to spend on dress that which might be spared for God’s work; but it costs no more to have a thing well and prettily made.”