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SKETCHES. 327
- “ Around all life’s joy,” said Amelia, “you will spread
the all-beautifying radiance of innocence.”
“And in the depth of your sorrows,” continued Helena,
“you will not feel bitterness, but be able to say with the
suffering ‘ Vitalis’” (here Helena unconsciously clasped her
hands, and in her serene face one could read the pain and
the beauty of self-denial mingled, while she recited with
deep feeling) : —
“* Let my will-offering in thy sight find favor,
O Thou! who dost my inmost spirit read;
With love I take the cup, nor will I waver
Whene’er it doth from thine own love proceed.’ ”
“And then,” said Amelia, much moved, “may the love
of your fellow-men and the peace of God’s angels follow
you through life!”
Emma wept and embraced her kind governesses.
“J will,” she exclaimed, “ become good, make you happy,
and try to merit God’s approbation and my Edward’s love.
Oh! that my power to do so could equal my desire! I often
feel anxicty, when I think of the duties which await me;
and I fear that in the active life upon which I am about to
enter, while still so young, I shall not always be able to dis-
tinguish the right from the wrong.”
“ There is,” said Anielia, “one way of acting, one maxim,
which, if we follow it, will enable us easily and surely to
accommodate ourselves to all circumstances in life, accord-
ing to the will of the eternal Goodness.”
“ And that is?”
“ Between two different ways of acting, tf you would know
to which you ought to give the preference, weigh the conse-
quence for the better or the worse, and choose the one which
promises to insure the greatest amount of real happiness. In
order to arrive at clearness and certainty in your choice,
you require above all, an enlightened understanding ; but
of this and how to gain this understanding we have already
spoken.”
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