No matter what she was called upon to suffer, either of bodily or mental pain, she never murmured, but lifted her heart upward with pious submission and felt, if she did not speak the sentiment--"Thy will be done." Mrs.Parker was one of three sisters, between whom existed the tenderest affection.

Their mother had died while they were young, and love for each other had been strengthened and purified in mutual love and care for their father.

They had never been separated, from childhood.

The very thought of separation was always attended with pain.

If in the marriage of Rachel with Benjamin Parker any thing crossed the mind of the loving and happy girl to cast over it a shade, it was the thought of being separated from her sisters.