Excerpt from A Memoir of Mrs. Margaret Wilson: Of the Scottish Mission, Bombay; Including Extracts From Her Letters and Journals The beginning of my intercourse with Margaret was at an early period of our existence, - at that bright season, when all looks fair and attractive, and life seems to promise a succession of enjoyments, which are without limit and without end. Bu ere she had time to learn from experience that such hopes are fallacious, God had graciously touched her heart, and enabled her, like Mary of old, to choose the better part. She chose it with all the warmth of young affection, for her heart was full of sensibility and tenderness. Her dispositions were a fine com bination of warmth of affection and disinterestedness of feeling 3 her talents were of the first order 3 and her after acquirements were of such a description as brought them into full play, and formed a character at once lovely and attractive. But she brought all to the foot of the Cross, and for a time, with weep ing and mourning, she was made to experience what it is to be in bitterness through manifold temptations. But in all this, the Almighty was only preparing the ground for the mighty harvest it was afterwards to yield, when she became as a well watered garden, drinking in the dews of heaven, and deriving strength and spiritual vigour from the Sun of Righteousness. 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.