Excerpt from Frances Bridges Atkinson: A Record of Her Life, Prepared by Her Frinds The truest sense of the word Mrs. Atkinson's useful life, ending before she was thirty, deserved the name. She never thought of her life as anything beyond a daily and quiet performance of duty. She thought little of herself, a great deal of her work, much of her Master. No day of hers began without the morning watch. She rose early, that she might have her hour with Jesus; after that, every day and all day she gave herself, without stint, to the work she had in hand. She slurred nothing. Children loved her, old people found her adorable. Girls of all sorts and conditions were moved not only by her appeals, but by her presence, and made her their pattern. To live a life of sincerity and nobility out in the open, with Christ as the motive and meaning of it all, is to have the best career in these days of opportunity that is ever the province of woman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.