God has taken her to himself, and she is free from pain and weariness forevermore, in his sheltering arms.

You do not know what poverty means! Think of the many mothers who only see their children grow up to hard labor, and suffer for want of food and clothing.

Take the sorrow that God has sent you; do not try to measure it with that of others; the sorrow that comes to each seems the heaviest for each to bear.

But our Father knows why he has given each row, and the road he leads us is the one best for us to follow." Mrs.Stanhope became more tranquil as these words fell on her ear, but her face still wore an expression of inconsolable grief.

She was silent a few moments, and then she told Mrs.Stein that she meant to take Nora home and lay her beside the little boy in the garden by the Rhine, and that she should send to her true friend and house-keeper Clarissa to come at once to Oak-ridge to make the preparations for their return, and accompany her on her painful journey.