She rose from her sick-bed thoughtful and humbled, but with hopes that transcended the world of her suffering and shame.

She no longer murmured against her sorrowful allotment, but accepted it with quiet and almost cheerful resignation as the fitting penalty of God's broken laws and the needed discipline of her spirit.

She could say with the Psalmist, 'The judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.

Thou art just, O Lord, and thy judgment is right.' Through my exertions she obtained employment in a respectable family, to whom she endeared herself by her faithfulness, cheerful obedience, and unaffected piety.
"Her trials had made her heart tender with sympathy for all in affliction.

She seemed inevitably drawn towards the sick and suffering.
In their presence the burden of her own sorrow seemed to fall off.