There are a great many things that can't be helped in this world, and all we can do is to make the best of them.

Some people were born to live in the skies, and it makes it hard for those who have to try to live with them.

Job suffered some things, but--I won't scold out here--I have my trials; but it may be they are all for the best, as the Scripture says." These forbearing remarks were not wholly meant for Gretchen's reproval.
Mrs.Woods liked to have the world know that she had her trials, and she was pleased to find so many ears on this bright morning open to her experiences.
She liked to say to Gretchen things that were meant for other ears; there was novelty in the indirection.

She also was accustomed to quote freely from the Scriptures and from the Methodist hymnbook, which was almost her only accomplishment.

She had led a simple, hard-working life in her girlhood; had become a follower of Jason Lee during one of the old-time revivals of religion; had heard of the Methodist emigration to Oregon, and wished to follow it.