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late. I talked long with him, as he lay there,
and read 2 Cor. 5, and prayed with him. He
wept for joy and simply said 'I am waiting for
the Lord's will to be done.' I am so glad to
find father and mother able to go about.
They are still working for their children. You
must be encouraged about your school.
Brothers Grubbs and Rogers praise you for
your work. But nobody praises you more (I
mean prizes) than I! " V
  Mrs. Carr had not been teaching long on her
second year, when she received a request from
Mrs. P. F. Johnson, President of the Christian

A letter from Mrs. Carr to one of her pupils she taught in Mel-
bourne.  The letter was discovered recently with "the little wild
flower gathered on the plains of Sharon" pinned to it: the letter had
never been mailed: written thirty-three years ago, it shows how Mrs.
Carr talked to her girls. Possibly she wondered why "Maria" did not
answer her letter, and here is the letter found in a pigeon hole at the
College. Mr. Carr sends it on to Maria with apology.
                     "Fulton, Mo., U. S. A., January 8th, 1877"
"My Dear Maria:
I received a letter from Maggie a few days since in which she
stated that you had wrttten to me, but receiving no answer, feel dis-
couraged to write again. Be assured your letter never reached me.
or it would have been answered. I often think of my dear girls in
Australia, and especially of you and Maggie, because I loved you best
of all my pupils in Melbourne; for my association with you was
longest and most intimate, and because your mothers were friends
that never failed me amid the little annoyances and trials that life is
so surely heir to. I cannot tell you how much I long to see you all
once more. I cannot imagine how you think for a moment that I
forget you. I wrote you from Jerusalem. I wrote to you from
Rome, and I sent you a French Journal from Paris. I would love to
visit you in your happy home that Maggie so graphically described
and to see that beautiful boy upon whom she lavished so many
praises. Vaney a husband and father, and my little Maria a wife and