278 THE LEMON-PLANT. 



into this world to fight her way through hosts of 

 infernal foes, encompassing and inhabiting a body 

 of sin and death ? Nothing ! less than nothing and 

 vanity ! 



The details connected with my beloved Marie's 

 history, would far surpass, in touching and heart- 

 thrilling interest, those of any individual to whom 

 I have yet alluded ; but her character needed not 

 the aid of such contingent circumstances to render 

 it engaging in the eyes of those who knew her ; 

 nor does it require that aid to make it attractive to 

 those who love to see a contemporary, adorned in 

 like manner as the holy women of old adorned 

 themselves. I could have made my readers weep 

 with me ; but I would rather lead them to reflect 

 and to pray, encouraged by the exhibition of what 

 God wrought in my Marie, and what he is equally 

 able, equally willing to work in them also. 



