Oh ! that I could say ' Follow me as I have followed
Christ.' But I can say what is better — -follow Christ
Himself: He is the perfect pattern of His Church and
of His ministers. If you follow Him, you shall never
miss your way. I know He hath loved me : and He
now, upon the margin of the eternal world, gives me
the witness of it in my heart, and enables me to shout
' Victory ' over death and the grave."

Mrs. Johnston passed away to her eternal rest on
the loth of August, 1811, after labouring in the
mission-field only about four years, but leaving a
bright example of entire consecration to Christ and
His cause. Her path was rough and thorny in the
extreme, but her reward was bright and glorious.
Her memory was very fragrant to those fellow-



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labourers whom she left behind to work on in the
midst of a poor and oppressed people.
