‘I have just heard of this fresh trouble. Surely you must be intended to do some work for others specially needing heart’s blood.—This paper was put into my hands just as I heard of your fresh disappointment and anxiety.’
To the Misses Hibbert Ware, on the death of their sister:—
‘March 1905.
‘Indeed one ought only to give thanks for her. I think of her looking down on us all at peace having escaped from the long enduring pain associated with this earthly body, and springing up like the lark into the larger heaven.
‘Well, we must wait to understand these things which it has not entered into the heart of man to conceive in all their joyful reality, though in some measure they are revealed here to saintly souls which have been made partakers of Christ’s sufferings.’
To Mrs. Mace, on the death of her husband:—
‘May 1906.
‘Only to-day did I hear of the death of Mr. Mace.... It did seem grievous after his suffering with so much courage and hope the operation. One can only give thanks now that the soul has escaped from “the body of humiliation,” through which it has risen to the spiritual life. I don’t like the word resurrection, ἀνάστασις does not suggest that the soul has put on its old clothing, after being delivered from the body of corruption. You must be glad that he is free.’
Miss Beale wrote several letters, from which extracts are given, to Miss Belcher during her last illness.