The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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Again and again was the glad song repeated, in higher
and more triumphant measures, as if the singers were unable
to repress their joy. I listened till the anthem was ended,
and then walked across the lawn and stood beside the
church door, irresolute. Should I enter? Another group

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A CRISIS IN MY LIFE.
I stood beside the church door, irresolute. Should I enter?
of people entered, and the sexton, seeing me, held the door
open for my entrance. I dropped into an unoccupied seat
near the vestibule, the only vacancy seemingly in that
throng of people.
The singing was followed by a fervent, hopeful prayer,
from my standpoint unusual in its matter, and unfamiliar in
its phraseology. Another burst of Christmas music followed, and then came the sermon. The preacher was a