In Stella he beheld an example of the doctrines of Christianity really inspiring the daily life of the believer.

If her strong faith animated all those who served under that banner, then in like circumstances they would act as she had acted.
They would have no doubts; their fears would vanish; their griefs be comforted, and, to a great extent, even the promptings and passions of their mortality would be trodden under foot.

With Stella they would be ready to neglect the temporary in their certainty of the eternal, and even to welcome death, to them in truth, and not in mere convention, the Gate of Life.
Many things are promised to those who can achieve faith.

Stella achieved it and became endued with some portion of the promise.

Spiritual faith, not inherited, nor accepted, but hard-won by personal struggle and experience; that was the key-note to her character and the explanation of her actions.