God grant that the power of the Holy Ghost may overshadow us and enable us to make answer with her whom all generations have called blessed: "Behold the hand-maiden of the Lord!"
FOOTNOTES:
[ [42] Late Head-Master of Harrow; now Metropolitan of India.
[ [43] I would especially commend this modern order of knighthood to the prayers and support of women. It is bravely fighting our battle for us and doing the public work among men. As it attacks what is especially the sin of the moneyed classes, it is unpopular, men resenting its interference with what they call their private life, and it is always in peril for want of funds. The White Cross league admits women associates for intercessory prayer—and what mother will not be thankful for that?—for any work where women's aid is needed, and for raising funds for what is so emphatically our own cause. I would earnestly suggest to women who have incomes of their own that they should leave the White Cross a small legacy, so as to place it on a firmer basis. I hope myself to leave the English branch £2000.
[ [44] From an article in the Nineteenth Century on "Meddling with Hindu Marriages."
[ [45] Ezek. i., 26.
APPENDIX
In Mr. Edward Thring's address to the Church Congress at Carlisle in 1841, he said: