CHAPTER XV. 



Father and Daughter. 



WHEN John Haskell realized that a fatal disease 

 was daily weakening the cords of his life, and 

 that another hand was to write the Biography of his 

 Grandfather — a work that his heart craved to be 

 ])ermitted to accomplisli, he wrote to his aunt, 

 C. L. B. 



''I have ceased to expect, or to hope for recovery; 

 I am changing the hope of earthly life, to tlie greater 

 hope of eternal life. You may have to write the 

 Biography. I would, in that event, say, that it was 

 my intention to devote a chapter to the beautiful 

 life and death of my Aunt Julia. I find many 

 letters relating to her in my grandfather's own hand- 

 writing (and others) ; use them. Thus her exquisite 

 life — the result of his — for she was his daughter, 

 may be told incidentally in his own words." 



There are wonderful histories written and graven 

 on human souls, many of these will be revealed only 

 in the light of eternity, but, in tlie following pages, 

 the Pastor of St. John's opens his soul to the reader. 

 He has thrown on the canvass a life picture, that 

 needs no coloring from fancy or fiction. 



We have before alluded to the beauty of Julia, 

 (Dr. Bachman's fourth daughter) — a beauty of coun- 

 tenance and a grace of form seldom found combined. 



