charmed me very greatly, and the biographies of the good men and capable women are full of delight for me. Some of the portraits I recognize as being much like my own dear father, and therefore I quite venture to hope that I may believe myself one of your relatives. Mr. Jonathan D. Hearne, for instance, might from his appearance have been the brother of my father."

This striking resemblance is remarkable, as it must be at least three hundred years before the lines come together. But I find the same thing in the handwriting of the merchant William, my uncle William, my father and myself.

I copy from a periodical published in London. "The Baptist Monthly," date of Sept., 1899:

"Does you house overlook the race-course?"

"Yes. Don't you know that I am 'a sporting character'?"

She laughed, I laughed; and in that laugh I received the heartiest of welcomes to the happiest of homes. Miss Hearn's -- for that is her cognomen -- fame is world-wide. Wherever the Christian World is known, she is known also. One cannot think of that religious journal without at the same time thinking of Marianne Farningham. Year in, year out, thousands of people are helped by her well-written, chatty articles and charming verses. Custom cannot stale, and age cannot wither, her taking style.

Good natured and humorous, she makes a host of friends, but never an enemy. Sincere and kind, Miss Hearn is always to the fore in every good work. This is well accomplished by platform, as well as by pen. Some time ago Mr. W. T. Stead came to Northampton on his Peace Crusade. A monster meeting was held. Several first-rate speakers displayed eloquence worthy of the cause, and yet the palm for "the speech of the evening" was given, by universal consent, to Miss Hearn.

At Northampton she is held in high esteem. The town is proud of her, and rightly so. For here she has long worked, with indefatigable energy, in the interests of young people; and her labors have been crowned with success. A happy smile rests on Miss Hearn's face, as she tells me in simple words of her Bible class for young women.

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Thanks to Catherine Bradford for transcribing this page.