THE SERVANT OF GOD. on her disorder with renewedviolence. Her sincere friends, Lady Anne and Miss Scutt, were untiring in their attendance. " I fear," she observed to them once, half-playfully, " I shall be the death of you both ; but it will be but a few days more." And it was so. Her spirits and vigour of mind remained un- flaggingly to the last. Even a few hours before her death, she conversed on the subject of sending missionaries to Otaheite, in the pious hope of introducing Christianity among the wild inhabitants of that region. Almost her last words were -"My work is done ; I have nothing to do but to go to my Father ;" and on the afternoon of June 17, 1791, she expired in the arms of Lady Anne Erskine and Miss Scutt. In a letter written the day after her death, Dr. Lettsom, her physician, thus bears testimony to her Christian demeanour during her illness. " How often have we, when sitting by her sick-bed, witnessed the faithful composure with which she has viewed this awful change ! Not with the fearful prospect of doubt, -not with the dreadful apprehension of the judgment of an offended Creator; hers was all peace within; a tranquillity and cheerfulness which con- scious acceptance alone could convey." She was placed in the family vault at Ashby-de- la-Zouch, Leicestershire, by the side of her husband, whom she had survived forty-five years. By her own desire, her body was attired in the suit of white 3l
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