Nineteen Beautiful Years: Or, Sketches of a Girl's Life
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I'm antici- pating great pleasure from this occupation. When I understand it better, I'll love the fair face as it grad- ually comes into view. How sweet and solemn it shall be ! Already a beautiful head is up before my imag- ination ! Oh, those old masters ! No wonder that we almost worship them ; copying devoutly as they did from God's patterns, it seems to make them almost divine. — How strange is the Hereafter to us all ! How our hearts cry out when God leaves us in darkness as to where our... friends go when they die ; just as a child does when its mother leaves it alone. Faith leads us a little way. It tells us that the good are safe ; but where ? oh ! where f This is what we long to know ; but it is one of the mysteries about which we must be patient, I suppose. ' ' Closer, closer my steps Come to the dark abysm ; Closer, death to tny lips Presses the awful chrism ! "Saviour ! perfect my trust ; Strengthen my feeble faith ; Let me feel as I would when I stand On the shore of the river of death — 126 JV/NE TEE JV BEAUTIFUL YEARS.
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