34 THE FAITHFUL NURSE.

birth. It is that he might be in spirit and in truth a
follower of the blessed Redeemer.’ ‘O nurse!’ she
said, ‘you watched over my motherless childhood—be
the guide of this dear little boy—I commit him in con-
fidence to you; and I give you but one injunction in
regard to him, and that is, that you will teach him as
you did me, from the earliest opening of his reason, to
have the single eye that discerns clearly God’s will, and
the single purpose that fulfils it. As it regards this
world’s wealth, honours, or pleasures, I have no wish.
God’s will is mine. So long as my Saviour is his
Saviour, through life and through eternity, I ask nothing
more.’ |

“My dear mother died; and strictly and faithfully
did my good nurse perform my mother’s dying request.
Her time, her strength, her mind, and soul, were de-
voted wholly to taking care of me. In health and
sickness, by night and by day, she watched over me,
studied my happiness and improvement in all things,
and thought nothing a sacrifice on her part that might
contribute to my welfare and pleasure. My father re-
turned home about a year after my mother’s death ;
but his home was so desolate, that after committing
me again to the tender care of Nurse Burton, he left
us. My nurse is a woman of excellent sense, Her
mind is elevated by religious truths. She has a good
common education, and she was the only instructor I
had, or required, in my earliest childhood. She