Without a word of complaint they accepted the situation as one of the inexplicable dispensations of God. The many years of sublime but real trust in the care of Providence which they had cultivated in the mission field and which they had often proven to be an unfailing means of blessing, now stood them in good stead. Those who knew them intimately relate instances in which what seemed to be spontaneous gifts of friends and neighbours reached them at the moment when they knew not whence a supply for immediate needs was to come. In a letter to a friend telling of the timely provision of the Lord for his needs, Dr. House wrote that his old friend Kuhn Mote, having learned of his straitened circumstances, had sent him a gift of five hundred dollars. If the record of those later years could be written it would be a continuous testimony to the simple reliance upon the goodness and mercy of God, and to the marvellous justification of the faith of this godly couple. THE JUBILEE YEAR When, in 1897, the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of permanent work in Siam, the doctor was the only survivor of the group who met together in Bangkok half-a-century before. None of the workers in the field doubtless had greater rejoicing at that jubilee than Dr. House. The following letter of felicitation he wrote on that occasion to the daughter of his fellow missionary, herself born in Siam and from childhood knowing him as “Uncle Samuel”; it was a delicate tribute to the memory of his companions in labours. “WATERFORD, NEW YORK, March 18, 1897. “_To Miss Mary L. Mattoon_: “MY DEAR MARY: “You will excuse the familiarity of my address when you learn why my heart just now goes out to you with affectionate interest. You are the child, the Siam-born child of the honoured, now sainted missionary couple who with my unworthy self just fifty years ago, March 22, 1847, after eight months of weary voyage, landed in Bangkok and founded the present prosperous mission of the Presbyterian Board in the Kingdom of Siam. Yes, the coming Monday, the 22nd, will be the fiftieth birthday of that mission, and 1897 is its jubilee year. “How vivid are the memories of that never-to-be-forgotten day of our arrival, our welcome from the old missionaries of the other Boards, our first impressions of our strange yet interesting surroundings; and of the busy week and month and years that followed; and of work for the Master, with our full share of the peculiar joys and sorrows, trials and disappointments of mission life! How all the mercies come thronging into my mind.