‘It is nice to look back on that time forty years ago. I remember your confessions to me then. Well, you have not been forsaken, nor left to beg your bread.’ To the same:— ‘_October 1903._ ‘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. The following was written after the Head-mistresses’ Conference on October 8 and 9 at Oxford in 1898:— ‘_October 1898._ ‘MY DEAR FRIEND,—I got home last night. Everybody was asking and thinking about you and missing you so much. I hoped for a line this morning; Susan will doubtless write to-day. I brought back Agnes Body for the Sunday here. The text in my birthday book for to-day is: “I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not.” I know this prayer is fulfilled for you. How I long to have some real talk with you now; but I think even in the body there is communion, and still more out of the body. It seems to me as if Miss Carter must be with you. Your love and care for her was returned in blessings on your own life, and through you on others. Miss Strong looks ill. She has been staying with her Bishop; that will strengthen her. That good Miss Day of Westminster was there, and sweet Mrs. Woodhouse of Sheffield.