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"Do you think he will bring ain he will have for you, Bertie, s than you ever saw before in all your life, but ittime before you see him"

The child slipped down from his knees quite satisfied and full of pleasant anticipation, and went back to her play on the piazza

"Do you believe all that?" asked A as if Bertha had been told a fairy tale

"I do, indeed I have told the child what I regard as the highest fore Miss Amy, I know that your father was ever kind to you Did he ever turn coldly away froirl, with a rush of tears

"And can you believe that his Heavenly Father turned froht? Christ said to those ere trusting in hiain and receive you untoas your father was conscious, he was clinging to that divine hand that has never failed one true believer in all these centuries Surely, Miss Amy, your own reason tells you that the poor helpless forenial spirit, the mind that was a power out in the world, the soul with its noble and intense affections and aspirations--these made the man that was your father Therefore I say with truth that the one aith him who loved humanity, and who has prepared a better place for us than this earth can ever be under thecircu, perishing shadow

"When you compare the poor, disease-shattered house in yonder rooal spirit that dithin it, when you compare that prostrate for to the universal law of change--with the strong, active, intelligent man that was your father, do not your very senses assure you that your father has gone away, and, as I told Bertha, you will surely see hiood-by kiss was but a fiction to soothe the child, but in h we knoith certainty so little of the detail of the life beyond, we have two good grounds on which to base reasonable conjecture We know of God's love; we know your father's love; noould be natural in view of these two facts? I think we can er her father, and thus every memory of him will be pleasant We will leave intact the impression which he himself made when he acted consciously, for this which now remains is not himself at all"