I see so much of it." "The pain is not felt as deeply when we are trying to relieve that suffering," answered her friend.

"I have come away from the hospital many times after spending an hour or two among the beds, reading and talking to the children, with an inward peace in my soul too deep for expression.

I think that Christ draws very near to us while we are trying to do the work that he did when he took upon himself our nature in, the world and stood face to face visibly with men--nearer to us, it may be, than at any other time; and in his presence there is peace--peace that passeth understanding." They were silent for a little while, Edith not replying.

"We have now," resumed the lady, "nearly forty children under treatment--poor little things who, but for this charity, would have no tender care or intelligent ministration.

Most of them would be lying in garrets or miserable little rooms, dirty and neglected, disease eating out their lives, and pain that medical skill now relieves, racking their poor worn bodies.