Remember that sin brought the first coat, and thou wilt have little reason to be proud of dress or the adorning of thy body.

Seek rather the enduring ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, the beauty and the purity of the altar of God's temple, rather than the decoration of its outward walls.

For, as the Spartan monarch said of old to his daughter, when he restrained her from wearing the rich dresses of Sicily, 'Thou wilt seem more lovely to me without them,' so shalt thou seem, in thy lowliness and humility, more lovely in the sight of Heaven and in the eyes of the pure of earth.

Oh, preserve in their freshness thy present feelings, wait in humble resignation and in patience, even if it be all thy days, for the manifestations of Him who as a father careth for all His children." "I will endeavor, I will endeavor!" said the lady, humbled in spirit, and in tears.
The stranger took the hand of each.

"Farewell!" he said, "I must needs depart, for I have much work before me.