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RUTH. RAYMOND LULL. KATHARINA. BESSIE.

“Tahera,” which means, the pure one. She was a remarkable child,
and the Woman’s Board had every reason to be proud of its baby.
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She had a number of verses marked in her little Testament, and in reply
... to her mother’s question why she marked them, she said, “Because I
like them.” She spoke very beautifully about going to heaven, and
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: Ruth was too young to realize much except that going meant
separation from her parents, and she said, “Me don't want to go, me
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• wants to stay wid you, mamma.”
• • The mission house is very lonely without them.

• ■'( Katharina's favorite hymn, which she asked her father and mother
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