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 ...

HAS THE NIGHT OF DEATH NO MORNING?2

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am going to die, and, papa, I can't die!I I am afraid to die.
If Mamma, or you, or brother or sister,' would die with me,
to show me the way, then I should not be afraid. But I am
a little girl, papa, and I do not know the way, and I cannot
go alone."%
With wonderful self-control, the father- said, "cMY
daughter, God does not ask anybody to go alone, when
death comes. He does not ask grown people to do it.
When the time comes for you to die, and you let go of papa's
haind, and step out of this world into the other, you will find
the angels of God waiting for you whom He has sent to ac-.
company you, and they will go with you all the way, and
you will not go alone. So, my dear child, do not worry
about it." The little one was comforted, and, the next
morning, when we hoped she was better, because she was
free from pain, she lay quietly in bed looking about the
room. Suddenly she turned to her father with a bright and
eager face, and said, "1Papa, it is just as you told me. The
angels have come for me, and want me to go. There's Freddie, and Mary, and Lucy, and Wiliie, and Charlie. Kiss me
papa, and there is another kiss for mamma, and now goodbye!" Raising herself from the pillow, she stretched out
her hands towards attendants whom we did not see, a smile
flashed over her face, - the eyes closed slowly, - the arms
drooped, - and the passage was made from the chamber of
sickness to that larger chamber of the King. Did that lit-.
tle girl deceive herself? Was she the victim of her own imaginings?
A good many years ago, on a certain tenth day of Jan..
uary, the Pemberton mill collapsed at Lawrence, Massachu-.