Few lives of such simple and steadfast heroism have ever been lived.

Few lives have ever so stamped the mark of their influence on a community.

In the second year of his ministry, Mr.Dorrance had married a very beautiful and brilliant woman.

Probably no two young people ever began married life with a fairer future before them than these.

Mrs.Dorrance was as exceptionally clever and cultured a person as her husband; and she added to these rare endowments a personal beauty which is said by all who knew her in her girlhood to have been marvellous.
But, as is so often the case among New England women of culture, the body had paid the cost of the mind's estate; and, after the birth of her first child, she sank at once into a hopeless invalidism,--an invalidism all the more difficult to bear, and to be borne with, that it took the shape of distressing nervous maladies which no medical skill could alleviate.