tell you of meeting another admirer of yours
in the person of Mrs. ----, of Philadelphia, who was indebted to you for
the return of a little text-book. She means to call on you some day, if
she is ever in New York, to thank you in person for that act of kindness
of yours, and for your 'Stepping Heavenward.' She is a daughter of the
late Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. Her mother, a staunch old Scotch
lady over 80, has just returned from Europe. Mrs. ---- is a very
interesting woman, of warm religious feelings and very outspoken. She
was the companion of the famous Mrs. H., of Philadelphia, all through
the war,--as one of the independent workers, or perhaps in connection
with the Christian Commission. She witnessed the battle of
Chancellorsville--a part of it at Mary's Heights, and has told me a
great deal that was thrilling--told as _she_ tells it--even at this
late day. She has the profoundest belief in what is called the 'work of
faith' by prayer and I don't believe she would shrink from accepting
Prof. Tyndall's challenge."

[5] From the "Power of the Cross of Christ."

[6] "Briefe an eine Freundin," a remarkable little book, full of light
and sweetness.

[7] Praying before others.

[8] Since the warning we had the other day that we may be snatched from
our children, ought we not to try to form some plan for them in case of
such an emergency? I can't account for it, that in those fearful moments
I thought only of them. I should have said I ought to have had some
thought of the world we seemed to be hurrying to. I suppose there was
the instinctive yet blind sense that the preparation for the next life
had been made for us by the Lord, and that, as far as that life was
concerned, we had nothing to do but to enter it. I shudder when I think
what a desolate home this might be to-day. Poor things! they've got
everything before them, without one experience and discipline!--_From a
letter to her husband, dated Dorset, Sept. 17, 1871._

[9] The Presence of Christ. Lectures on the XXIII. Psalm. By Anthony W.
Thorold, Lord Bishop of Rochester. A. D. F. Randolph & Co.

[10] Albert Hopkins was born in Stockbridge, Mass., July 14,1807. He
was graduated at Williams College in the class of 1826, and three years
later became Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the same
institution. Astronomy was afterward added to his chair. In 1834 he
went abroad. In the summer of 1835 he organised and conducted a Natural
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