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abounded in hope; in the solitudes of the wilderness they believed themselves watched over by an Omnipresent Father. Honor is due not less to those who perished than to those who survived: to the martyrs the hour of death was an hour of triumph; such as is never witnessed in more tranquil seasons. For that placid resignation, which diffuses grace round the bed of sickness, and makes death too serene for sorrow and too beautiful for fear, no one was more remarkable than the daughter of Thomas Sharpe, whose youth, and sex, and unequalled virtues, won the eulogies of the austere Dudley. Even children caught the spirit of the place; awaited the impending change in the tranquil confidence of faith, and went to the grave full of immortality. The survivors bore all things meekly, remembering the end of their coming hither. We here enjoy God and Jesus Christ, wrote Winthrop to his wife, whom pregnancy had detained in England, and is not this enough? I thank God I like so well to be her