THE LATE MRS. S. M. I. HENRY.
Those who were acquainted with Mrs. S. M. I. Henry during her lifetime, either through her writings or from personal contact, do not fail to recognize that she was a most remarkable woman, and that she possessed a spiritual power and divine enlightenment that were unusually strong and deep. Her sympathies with the suffering or with the distressed, under all the varied conditions in which these things come, were most remarkable. None were too degraded to receive a kindly word from her and a helpful suggestion, and none could be too refined to find in her presence an atmosphere of spiritual purity and Christian courtesy that were at once a stimulus to nobler purposes and to desires to live on a higher plane of true nobility and goodness. She never dwelt upon the dark side, but what she had to say filled the spiritual atmosphere around her with courage, hope, and joy. While in contact with such a life as this a person is not apt to stop to reason upon it. Yet if any reasoning were done it must be evident that a person living along such a plane as this has met and conquered many sorrows, trials, difficulties, and perplexities, and, knowing the sting of pain and being in touch with the sympathetic principles of heaven, is desirous of relieving the distress of others who are undergoing similar afflictions and trials. No one would have imagined through coming in contact with Mrs. Henry in her life-work that there had ever been any dark clouds hovering across her pathway. She made no mention of any such experiences. But in some of her leisure moments she made some autobiographical sketches of her early experiences,—the influence of her father and their Bible studies together; her conflicts while struggling in deepest poverty as a widow to keep her little family together and train them for God, and other trying experiences. Her daughter, Mrs. Mary Henry Rossiter, has added to these manuscripts other interesting matter, and the whole is published in a neat book, the retail price of which is $1.50. No person can read this book without being greatly helped thereby, and it is especially valuable to wives and mothers. We feel sure that the many acquaintances of Mrs. Henry will be anxious to get this volume. Orders should be sent to Mrs. Grace Durland Mace, 271 West Main Street, Battle Creek, Mich. T.