...when a friend asked him how he was in his last sickness, he replied: "Alas! I have lost everything. My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...me; but I thank God my charity holds out still. I think that rather grows than fails." Eliot's preaching must have been of a very high character for...

...love. Being asked, shortly before his departure, how he did, he replied, ' I have lost everything ; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...holds out still: I find that rather grows than fails.' " * * Cotton Mather, in his Life of the Renowned John Eliot, enters largely into the history of Eliot's...

...settlements and the apparent ruin of his work, he wrote to Eobert Boyle, shortly before his death, " My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...fails me, but I thank God my charity holds out still." His dying words were, " Welcome joy." Connecticut in 1718. For nearly four years he worked amongst...

...of sentiment; he could have declared as Eliot did, towards the close of his long, beneficent career: "My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...me; but, I thank God, my charity holds out still."* After Thomas Morris, the inevitable cares of this world, and the equally inevitable masterfulness of...

...nature. When an old man he said to one who questioned him about his state: "Alas, I have lost everything; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails!" And his charity and affability, as well as his prayerfulness, were exercised at home, as sometimes...

...nature. When an old man he said to one who questioned him about his state: "Alas, I have lost everything; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails!" And his charity and affability, as well as his prayerfulness, were exercised at home, as sometimes...

...nature. When an old man he said to one who questioned him about his state: "Alas, I have lost everything; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails!" And his charity and affability, as well as his prayerfulness, were exercised at home, as sometimes...

...nature. When an old man he said to one who questioned him about his state: "Alas, I have lost everything; my understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...out still ; I find that rather grows than fails!" And his charity and affability, as well as his prayerfulness, were exercised at home, as sometimes...

...(verses 8-12). The best comment on these verses is the remark of Eliot the apostle of the Indians: "My understanding leaves me, my memory fails me, my...fails me, but I thank God my charity holds out still." And of the three, faith, hope, and love (verse 13), love is the greatest, for while there may be faith...

...have lost every thing ; my understanding leaves me ; my memory fails me ; my utterance fails me ; hut f . ܄y e & 1 H d @Q ( K z ys r } W %! K C ) J d tails." Speaking of the work in which he had been engaged among the Indians, he said, — " There is...