help me to find my cup and I will never pick strawberries again on Sunday." She found her cup, and her careful regard for the Lord's day never ceased from that time.

She attended district school for some years and at once showed remarkable ability along certain lines. When only four years old she could read quite readily, not only story books and incidents, but poetry and newspapers. Her family remembered her reading at this early age that poem which begins,

"If fortune with a smiling face,

Strew roses on your way,

When shall we stoop to pick them up?
To-day, my friend, to-day."

During their school days, her brother Clayton was her constant playmate and her faithful companion; so that they became greatly attached to each other, and their hearts were united by a bond that death could not sever.

When about fifteen years old she had an attack of the measles, which left her health in a broken condition; and until she was twenty years old she was delicate and suffered much pain, sometimes even being confined to her bed. During her years of sickness and suffering her sister Ellen was her ministering angel. These years of weakness, and enforced separation from school and a much desired education, added greatly to the quiet patience of her future life. During these sorrowful times her father also sickened and died. The family now moved from Napoli to Steamburg in the same county, where in

the providence of God she was to receive a wonderful uplift both physically and spiritually, "in the fulness of time." She says but little in her writings about these testing times, and always has regarded them all as only the will of God made manifest in that part of her life.

NO. 1. NO. 5 AMERICAN LADY'S SHOE, ABOUT TEN INCHES. NOS. 2 AND 3. MIDDLE CLASS CHINESE WOMAN'S WEDDING SHOES. NO. 4. HIGH CLASS CHINESE LADY'S WINTER SHOE, PADDED. NO. 5. HIGH CLASS CHINESE LADY'S SLIPPER.

CHAPTER III.

EXPERIENCE OF HOLINESS.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,

And trifles life.

-Young.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.

-Shakespeare.

There are certain times in every life when future events of the greatest moment to that person are shaped and directed by some circumstances of trivial import, as it seems at the time. We know not the future. It is wisely hidden from our view. We only know that we must die, but even the time and manner of that momentous event are utterly unknown to us, also concealed in the misty future by the same wise Power.

The Rev. John Harmon was appointed preacher in charge on the Randolph, New York, circuit of the Free Methodist church for the years of 1883-4 and 1884-5. This circuit included Steamburg, New York, where the Leffingwells had lately moved. During the winter of 1884 Mr. Harmon held a series of revival meetings at Steamburg, and those meetings Clara attended. She was by nature deeply spiritual and had a wonderful drawing to anything and

everything that touched that spiritual nature. The preaching of this devoted man of God took a deep and permanent hold upon her. Any who have heard him preach will bear out the statement now made that he is a remarkable preacher-clear, plain, evangelical and strikingly spiritual. Such preaching as this must necessarily bear fruit when planted in such soil as was her nature. While she had been saved from her sins many years and had lived a truly Christian life, she had not that definite witness of the Spirit which it was her privilege to have; and now she saw, under the wonderful light of the Holy Spirit, that there were higher heights for her to attain and also deeper depths of humility than she had ever found before.

Mr. Harmon constantly preached the doctrine and experience of holiness, and Clara at once saw that it was a doctrine clearly taught in the Bible. She immediately recognized its claim upon her, and at once began to seek it as a definite experience. She now more fully than before gave herself anew to God; she humbled herself, confessed her need of a clean heart, and began to read her Bible and to pray with such diligence, persistence and frequency that her friends were somewhat concerned for her. Even her sister Ellen, who had always been a mother to her and seemed to understand her better than any one else, was distressed; and even at one time went so far as to say: "I will go away, I cannot stand it." Of course, however, she remained, and they were both wonderfully blessed, and united as they had never been in the past. The strong ties of human love which had held them so

1. Silk purse. 2. Door god. 3. Woman's head band. 4 and 5. Door gods. 6. Large band embroidery, silk. 7. Tobacco pipe. 8. Hand-painted silk fan. 9. Lady's dress shoe. 10. Spectacle case. 11. Fan. 12. Lady's three-inch shoe. 13. Silk for sleeves. 14. Lady's shoe. 15. Eye glasses. 16. Fan. 17. Door god. 18. Visiting card. 19. Paper bill (value 50 cents). 20. Dragon dollar bill. 21. Native razor. 22. Lord's prayer. 23. String of cash. 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28. Wooden figures. 29. A painting. 30 to 38. Wooden figures. 39. Basket. 40. Abacus.