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human Imperfections.
Fenelon's Teaching about Humiliation and being patient with
Ourselves.
IV.
The Story Lizzie Told. Country and City. The Law of Christian Progress.
Letters to a Friend bereft of three Children. Sudden Death of another
Friend. "Go on; step faster." Fenelon and his Influence upon her
religious Life. Lines on her Indebtedness to him.

CHAPTER XI
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IN HER HOME.
I.
Home-life in New York.
II.
Home-life in Dorset.
III.
Further Glimpses of her Dorset Life.

CHAPTER XII
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THE TRIAL OF FAITH.
1871-1872.
I.
Two Years of Suffering. Its Nature and Causes. Spiritual Conflicts.
Ill-health. Faith a Gift to be won by Prayer. Death-bed of Dr. Skinner.
Visit to Philadelphia. "Daily Food." How to read the Bible so as to love
it more. Letters of Sympathy and Counsel. "Prayer for Holiness brings
Suffering." Perils of human Friendship.
II.
Her Husband called to Chicago. Lines on going to Dorset. Letters to
young Friends on the Christian Life. Narrow Escape from Death.
Feeling on returning to Town. Her "Praying Circle." The Chicago Fire.
The true Art of Living. God our only safe Teacher. An easily-besetting
Sin. Counsels to young Friends. Letters.
III.
"Holiness and Usefulness go hand-in-hand." No two Souls dealt with
exactly alike. Visits to a stricken Home. Another Side of her Life. Visit
to a Hospital. Christian Friendship. Letters to a bereaved Mother.
Submission not inconsistent with Suffering. Thoughts at the Funeral of
a little "Wee Davie." Assurance of Faith. Funeral of Prof. Hopkins. His
Character.
IV.
Christian Parents to expect Piety in their Children. Perfection. "People
make too much Parade of their Troubles." "Higher Life" Doctrines.
Letter to Mrs. Washburn. Last Visit to Williamstown.

CHAPTER XIII
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PEACEABLE FRUIT.
1873-1874.
I.
Effect of spiritual Conflict upon her religious Life. Overflowing

Affections. Her Husband called to Union Theological Seminary.
Baptism of Suffering. The Character of her Friendships. No perfect
Life. Prayer. "Only God can satisfy a Woman." Why human Friendship
is a Snare. Letters.
II.
Goes to Dorset. Christian Example. At Work among her Flowers.
Dangerous Illness. Her Feeling about Dying. Death an "Invitation"
from Christ. "The Under-current bears Home." "More Love, more
Love!" A Trait of Character. Special Mercies. What makes a sweet
Home. Letters.
III.
Change of Home and Life in New York. A Book about Robbie. Her
Sympathy with young People. "I have in me two different Natures."
What Dr. De Witt said at the Grave of his Wife. The Way to meet little
Trials. Faults in Prayer-meetings. How special Theories of the
Christian Life are formed. Sudden Illness of Prof. Smith. Publication of
Golden Hours. How it was received.
IV.
Incidents of the Year 1874. Starts a Bible-reading in Dorset. Begins to
take Lessons in Painting. A Letter from her Teacher. Publication of
Urbane and His Friends. Design of the Work. Her Views of the
Christian Life. The Mystics. The Indwelling Christ. An Allegory.

CHAPTER XIV
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WORK AND PLAY.
1875-1877.
I.
A Bible-reading in New York. Her Painting. "Grace for Grace." Death
of a young Friend. The Summer at Dorset. Bible-readings there.
Encompassed with Kindred. Typhoid Fever in the House. Watching
and Waiting. The Return to Town. A Day of Family Rejoicing. Life a
"Battle-field."
II.
The Moody and Sankey Meetings. Her Interest in them. Mr. Moody.
Publication of Griselda. Goes to the Centennial. At Dorset again. Her

Bible-readings. A Moody-meeting Convert. Visit to Montreal.
Publication of The Home at Greylock. Her Theory of a happy Home.
Marrying for Love. Her Sympathy with young Mothers. Letters.
III.
The Year 1877. Death of her Cousin, the Rev. Charles H. Payson. Last
Illness and Death of Prof. Smith. "Let us take our Lot in Life just as it
comes." Adorning one's Home. How much Time shall be given to it?
God's Delight in His beautiful Creations. Death of Dr. Buck. Visiting
the sick and bereaved. An Ill-turn. Goes to Dorset. The Strangeness of
Life. Kauinfels. The Bible-reading. Letters.
IV.
Return to Town. Recollections of this Period. "Ordinary" Christians
and Spiritual Conflict. A tired Sunday Evening. "We may make an Idol
of our Joy." Publication of Pemaquid. Kezia Millet.

CHAPTER XV
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FOREVER WITH THE LORD.
1878.
I.
Enters upon her last Year on Earth. A Letter about The Home at
Greylock. Her Motive in writing Books. Visit to the Aquarium. About
"Worry." Her Painting. Saturday Afternoons with her. What she was to
her Friends. Resemblance to Madame de Broglie. Recollections of a
Visit to East River. A Picture of her by an old Friend. Goes to Dorset.
Second Advent Doctrine. Last Letters.
II.
Little Incidents and Details of her last Days on Earth. Last Visit to the
Woods. Sudden Illness. Last Bible-reading. Last Drive to Hager Brook.
Reminiscence of a last Interview. Closing Scenes. Death. The Burial.
APPENDIX

CHAPTER I
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THE CHILD AND