ELIZABETH FRY. left a bright undying example behind her. Like the diamond which is polished to fit it for a royal crown, while the worthless pebble lies untouched, her heart had been tried and refined by sorrows which would have crushed a poorer spirit, but from which she came forth pure and radiant. Her life carries its own lesson with it ; and for the secret of the mar- vellous power of doing good with which she was endowed, that is revealed in the words spoken to a dear friend during her last illness :- " Since my heart was touched at seventeen years old, I believe I never have awakened from sleep, in sickness or in health, by day or bynight, without my first waking thought being ' how I might best serve my Lord.' " Few have " served the Lord " with greater sin- cerity and lowliness of heart than the earnest philanthropist, 41
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