Under the above caption, in the January number, our dear Teacher expressed her gratitude for the gifts her students made her on Christmas. She commences thus: ''One of the most difficult things to express, when genuine, is gratitude."
I am sure we, her students, have found it so; and the Christmas souvenirs convey but little idea of the love and gratitude we bear her. Every day in the year she has given us Christmas gifts—in her teachings, in her example, in her watchful care over the success of the students and the growth of the Cause. No sacrifice has been too great for her to make. The rest that ordinary humanity deems requisite, she has never taken. Early and late has she worked for us, that we might go forth, ''shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace," to bless and save our suffering fellow-creatures. She has been desirous only of investing us with "the whole armor of God."
Faithful leader of the One Cause, the love of your students is immeasurable. The gifts that money purchases can express to you but little of what we feel. The gifts are priceless with which you have endowed us. You have led us to Pisgah's height, whence we may behold the Promised Land; and Love guides you for us, so that we shall come into the inheritance of Canaan's fertile pastures. Never have you shrank from following in our dear Master's footsteps, up the steep and rugged way. Surely, where you have the courage to lead, we should follow. The wine you have given us to strengthen us for the march, is the inspiration of Life.
