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CHAPTER VI.

THE SHORN LAMB—THE VOICE OF DEATH—
TACT—THE WELCOME LETTER.

Gop tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb; and for several months after
her husband’s death, Mrs. Wingate
treated the little girl with more kind-
ness than formerly. There is a
solemn power in death, and few are
the human hearts that do not feel
that power. As the dark gateway
of the tomb opens, a light from the
world beyond falls upon those who
thus far follow the spirit in its flight.
The most thoughtless are sometimes
conscious of this solemn revelation.
Upon the Christian this light falls
with a soft and balmy sweetness,
gently blending with the light with-
in. To the sinner’s heart it is the