'I will lay me
down in peace and sleep,' when the time of my departure comes,
should be the heart-language of every one who takes upon himself the
name of Him who said, 'In my Father's house are many mansions. I go
to prepare a place for you, that where I am, ye may be also.'"
"Since I knew Mrs. Montgomery, and felt the sphere of her quality,"
said Constance, "my perceptions of life and duty here, and their
connection with life and happiness hereafter, have been elevated to
a higher region. I see no longer as in a glass darkly, but in the
light of reason, made clear by the more interior light of
Revelation."
"And the same is true with me," I replied. "We may well say that it
was good to have known her. She was so true, so just, so unconscious
of self, that truth, justice, and unselfishness were always lovelier
in your eyes for having seen them illustrated in her person. And
there was no pious cant about her. No parade of her unworthiness; no
solemn aspects, nor obtrusive writings of bitter things against
herself. But always an effort to repress what was evil in her
nature; and a state of quiet, religious trust, which said, 'I know
in whom I have believed.
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