I know He will care for you and protect you, so I can go quietly and joyfully.

Yes, my good Marianne," she turned again to the latter, "I have done a great wrong; I have hurt deeply the best of fathers through disobedience and selfishness.

For that I have suffered much; but in my suffering it was permitted me to learn how great the love and compassion of our Father in heaven is for His children, and since then a song of deepest gratitude sounds ever and ever in my heart: "'I lay in heaviest fetters, Thou com'st and set'st me free; I stood in shame and sorrow, Thou callest me to Thee; And lift'st me up to honor And giv'st me heavenly joys Which cannot be diminished By earthly scorn and noise.'" The sick woman had folded her hands while she spoke, and in her eyes there was a wonderful light; but now she sank back on her pillows, exhausted and pale.

Marianne stood there quietly and now and then had to wipe her eyes.
"But now I must run to the doctor,--it is high time," she said, frightened.

"Mrs.Dorn, can I give you anything ?" "No, I thank you," the sick woman answered softly.