And, besides, it is a case in which no medical skill is of much avail, if any; Nature must struggle through--or yield, which I can not help thinking would be the best ending.

In Sparta, now, this poor child would have been exposed on Mount--what was the place?
to be saved by any opportune death from the still greater misfortune of living." "But that would have been murder--sheer murder," earnestly replied the minister.

"And we are not Spartans, but Christians, to whom the body is not every thing, and who believe that God can work out His wonderful will, if He chooses, through the meanest means--through the saddest tragedies and direst misfortunes.

In one sense, Dr.Hamilton, there is no such thing as evil--that is, there is no actual evil in the world except sin." "There is plenty of that, alas!" said Mr.Menteith.

"But as to the child, I wished you to see it--both of you together--if only to bear evidence as to its present condition.