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ELIZABETH FRY.

beth, who passed away after a week of suffering, and who was laid to rest in Barking churchyard. The memory of this five-year old child remained with her for many years a pure and holy influences, doubtless prompting her to deal tenderly with the young strayed ones whom she met in her errands of mercy. How often the memory of the "touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still," influences our intercourse with the living, so that while benefiting them we do it as unto and for the dead.