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 [From Missionary Tidings, July, 1895.] 
 
 As the fullness of Timothy’s faith dwelt in 
 his mother, Eunice, so the faith of Miss Mary 
 dwelt first in her mother, Lydia Graybiel. From 
 her she learned the Holy Scriptures and inher¬ 
 ited a heroic nature. Many of you have seen 
 this venerable mother in Israel and heard her 
 precious words of exhortation. She who fur¬ 
 nishes a well-equipped missionary for the world’s 
 salvation has made a contribution beyond hu¬ 
 man estimation. May the Lord bless her mem¬ 
 ory and cause us to live more Christ-like. 
 
 Miss Mary’s early life was spent in Williams- 
 ville, N. Y., near Buffalo, where she received a 
 liberal education in the Academy established 
 there by our Brethren in 1856, first presided 
 over by Bro. Thomas Munnell and later by Bro. 
 Joseph King. She obeyed the Gospel of Christ 
 at about the age of twelve years, and her relig¬ 
 ion was a deep and forcible characteristic of her 
 life. She spent several years in teaching in 
 western New York and Pennsylvania and every¬ 
 where her Christian life made a deep impres¬ 
 sion, which still exists in the lives of many. 
 
 When the yellow fever epidemic raged in the 
 South her heroic nature led her to volunteer to 
 go to the bedsides of the suffering and dying, 
 but the abating necessity prevented her going. 
 Things which appeared as hardships to many 
 of her friends did not seem so to her, but rather 
 a pleasure. She was heard to say once, “I am 
 always glad when the Lord gives me something 
 hard to do for Him.” What a noble spirit this 
 is! Yet how few seek it. 
 
 She offered herself as a missionary to India 
 at the first call. Her life and preparation 
 seemed to be waiting for the tardy call of God’s 
 
people to “go forward.” Although, in quest 
 of renewed health, compelled to return after 
 nine years of constant service in Bilaspur, build¬ 
 ing the bungalow and superintending that mis¬ 
 sion, yet no pleasures of native country tempted 
 her to relinquish her purpose to return and take 
 up the work she had so reluctantly laid down. 
 In September, 1894, she, in company with Miss 
 Frost, sailed again for India, and is now at 
 work in Mahoba, in Northwest Provinces. 
 
 In the early part of her missionary labors in 
 India she had many hard things to endure, but 
 the Lord has rewarded His faithful servants 
 now with more comforts and less opposition. 
 
 While in America her friends tried to per¬ 
 suade her she could do as much good here as 
 in India, but she persistently replied, “There 
 are plenty who are willing to fill these places 
 but not so many who will go to India.” 
 
 I presume her hardest trial was to leave her 
 mother, whom she had no reasonable hopes to 
 meet again in the flesh. It was a grand lesson 
 to us all, for her trembling mother, eighty-four 
 years old, to give her free and glad consent for 
 her daughter to return to her loved work so far 
 away. It was the final farewell, as all sup¬ 
 posed it would be, on earth, but a joyful meet¬ 
 ing awaits them on the other shore. 
 
 Sister Mary Graybiel is held in loving esteem 
 by all the church hjere. Hardly a week goes 
 by but an earnest prayer is heard here in be¬ 
 half of our loved ones in India. May the Lord 
 bless them. 
 
 Mrs. J. G. Waggoner. 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y., March 8, 1895. 
 
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