The stars had nearly all disappeared, those that lingered were sadly paling away.

How solemn was the stillness! She thought of the words of Jacob, "Surely God is here!"-- the clouds were flying swiftly beneath the arch of Heaven, as if from God's presence.

Many thoughts were suggested to her by the grandeur of the scene, for my reader must remember, that an admiration of the glories of nature is not unfrequently a characteristic of an uneducated mind.

Many verses of Scripture occurred to her, "From the rising of the sun, unto the going down of the same, the Lord's name be praised.
The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high?
Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in Heaven, and in the earth." The soul of the slave-woman rejoiced in the Lord, her Maker and her Redeemer.
Gradually a soft light arose above the mountains; the fog became transparent through its influence.