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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt:...summer radiance. Mrs Grey watches the last bright lines sink beneath the wintry horizon, and then, turning to her daughter, she repeats a part of the glorious vision that was granted to one of God's faithful servants, and by which many of His children have expressed their foresight of the heavenly city: "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever." "My little Jessie! this will comfort you when I am gone. Remember how happy I shall be. I 'shall see His face.' I shall be with Him to whom you pray--for ever at rest! You will miss your mother drearily, my child; but let that draw you still nearer to the God in whom she trusted. I would willingly stay with you; I would that my love might shield and direct you; but I know that' what He wills is best,' and can trust it all to Him." The long restraint that Jessie has placed upon her feelings gives way, and with a despairing--" Oh! mamma, mamma! I cannot let you go!" the unnatural calmness is broken up. She feels now that it has not been submission to God, or trust in Him, that has upheld her; but only a determined resistance to sorrow, which she has built upon the frequent repetition of that Scripture passage. Instead of saying, "Not my will, but Thine, be done!" she has only recognized the impossibility of the bitter cup being removed from her, with no conviction of the infinite Love and Wisdom that prepared it. "God has seemed so far away from me, mamma," she says, "I have felt as if I were shut out from His presence; and when I tried to pray, I could only remember that He was taking you from me." "My poor child! why have you not tol...