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be done with it. “Why,” we said, “put it into every language as soon
as possible, for it is the simplest, clearest guide in the saving faith of
Jesus we have ever read.” That book has been translated into [many]
languages.
I saw a table with a complete set of her published books on it. I
think it is under the trees on the other side of the house. I think it should
be nearer. It makes a number of volumes that is quite surprising.
As I looked at her the other day, as I clasped her hand and bade her
good-bye, I thought, “that hand has written more gospel exhortation
and precious things than perhaps any other human hand. I have studied
the writings of a good many, but I know of no one who is as diligent as
she was, getting up at 2, 3, or 4 o’clock in the morning, and working
until after sundown. She retired very early, that was her habit, and
then early in the morning she would arise and begin her writing. You
would find her, like all the prophets, rising early and doing her work.
I have seen her, I think, under nearly all the circumstances under
which you meet a friend. We had the privilege of traveling with her
in Michigan, and then of accompanying her to Australia, living in her
home, seeing her under all the circumstances of home life, and, in
addition, with the burdens of the world’s work that she loved upon her;
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and I want to testify today that Mrs. Starr and I consider her one of
the most constant, faithful Christians that we have met in our lives. I
do not say that in order to praise her here today, but I believe it from
the heart; I have reason to know it, I know it personally.
She has been a great help to me personally. She has not written me
flattering letters when I have been in the mission fields, in Queensland
and other places, but she has written me very earnest words of counsel
that have been very profitable to me in my life and ministry.
I wish to note her character as a friend, and I am sure that all who
know her here will verify what I say. Her remembrance of names of
individuals was very remarkable. She never seemed to forget a person
whom she met in any part of the world. She carried them on her heart
and in her prayers. Her faithfulness in friendship was very marked,
extending through trial and temptation. As the little boy at school
said when asked the meaning of friendship, “A true friend is one who
knows all about you and loves you just the same,” so we can say of her,
that though she knew the failings of her friends very well, she loved