"Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
"Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's."
CHAPTER XIX.
HELP AND LOVING KINDNESS.
Oh, give Thine own sweet rest to me
That I may speak with soothing power
A word in season, as from Thee,
To weary ones in needful hour.
That Mrs. Matilda Knowles, our beau ideal missionary, possessed a thankful heart, we glean from her diary. She gives a deeply interesting account of the recognition, on her part, of the gentle and generous loving-kindnesses of those ladies who heartily co-operated with her in lifting the burden of sin, sorrow, and sadness from poor suffering humanity. She writes at the close of 1875, thus: