Many prayers will go with him across the sea, and many welcomes will
greet him on his return.

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SOUTHERN ECHOES.

PRAYERS OF WOMEN AT THE MEETING OF FAREWELL TO A MISSIONARY.

"O! Lord, thou knowest how I love her. Thou knowest how I have run to
her in every trouble, as a chicken does to its mother."

"O! Lord, you know what she has been to me in the greatest trouble I
ever had. You know I think more of her than of any being in the whole
world, except my husband. Will you please to be with her when she gets
ready for the train, and when she goes from the house to the train, and
on the train, and when she goes to the house from the train, and bless
her all the time."

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Mrs. W----, an old lady, said: "My old man ax me every night when he
come from work if there be a meeting up yonder. He do like to go to
meeting. He think a heap of that young preacher up yonder. Last
Wednesday night after meeting, he say to me, 'Mary, I'll be good to you
after this,' and I say the same to him. It do me a heap of good to go up
yonder. I learn more than I ever knowed before. I knows what the texts
means now."