How passed the long night with that half-insensible soul?
God knoweth.

The secrets of that are hidden in the eternity to which it now belongs.

Questionless, ministering spirits drew near, freighted with balm and inspiration; for when the shadows fled, and the next morning's sun shone upon these silent forms, it revealed faces radiant as with some celestial fire, and beatified as reflecting the smile of God.
The inmates of the house before which lay this solemn mystery, rising to face a new-made day, looking out from their windows to mark what traces were left of last night's devastations, beheld this awful yet sublime sight.
"A prejudice which, I trust, will never end," had Mr.Surrey said, in bidding adieu to his son but a few short hours before.

This prejudice, living and active, had now thus brought death and desolation to his own doors.

"How unsearchable are the judgments of God, and his ways past finding out!".