How different is the end of him, who when his sun sets is found well at work for God! Who can look back on the whole pilgrimage, and though he discovers countless defects, and is compelled to come before God with the prayer, “Pardon the iniquity of my holy things;” is yet found in his harness—not rusting out, but working out, with the loins girt, and the lamp burning, and the whole man conscientiously consecrated to God! Now, such was truly the case with our departed friend. Her eye was not dim, nor her hand heavy even to the last. Even after the fatal illness had set in upon her, she assembled the teachers and school-children of the place where she was sojourning; and as disease advanced, she said with characteristic energy to her faithful attendant, “If I go home I must do more for God, and you must keep me up to it.” But there was no return in prospect; her work was finished, and she has entered on her rest. III. _The work_. Now, the text teaches us at the outset, that the work to which our Lord referred was an appointed work. “I must work the works of him that sent me.” He was sent to carry out God’s purpose, and intrusted with an apostleship from the Father, to which apostleship he here refers. In the same sense, every individual has his apostleship or mission. The trust may vary, and no two men have the same mission. One has money committed to him, one time, one stores of knowledge; another family ties, and another widely-extended influence; but all have their work from God. The master, the servant, the rich, the poor, the preacher, the hearer, the clergyman, the layman, the father, the child—all have their mission; and it is the part of the wise Christian to endeavour to see clearly what that mission is, and then to lay himself out for the work to which God has called and fitted him. Now, I think that all who knew our dear departed friend must acknowledge that this was pre-eminently the case with her. She was one who had her mission, and endeavoured most faithfully to fulfil it. She was intrusted with property, and you all know what use she made of it. She did not keep it as if it were her own, but employed it, as knowing that it was her Lord’s. She was intrusted with time and fine talents, and we all know how she used them. Remember her interest in foreign objects. How great was her zeal for missionary work! Even in her dying hours, she left her charge that 50_l._ be given to the Mandingo Mission, a Mission scarcely known in the Church, but which had been brought to her notice by a friend. How steady and stimulating was her attachment to the Bible Society! and how did her heart yearn to the very last over the wrongs and woes of Africa! Never yet was there a more zealous and intelligent supporter of the great foreign enterprises of the Church of Christ.