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Valmai looked round her with awe and horror

"Did these innocent-looking, si on to their own destruction? was she herself

one of theht was dreadful, her breath came and went quickly, her eyes

were full of tears, and she felt as if she must rise suddenly and rush

into the open air, but as she looked round the chapel she caught sight

through one of the s of the dark blue sky of night, bespangled

with stars, and a glow of purer and healthier feeling came over her

She would not believe it--outside was the fresh night wind, outside was

the silver ht, and in the words of the poet of whom she had

never heard she said within herself, "No! God is in Heaven, it's all

right with the world!" Her joyous nature could not brook the saddening

influences of the Methodist creed, and as she passed out into the clear

night air ahs and their evident appreciation of the sermon, or rather sermons,

for there had been two, her heart bounded with a sense of relief; joy

and happiness were its natural elements, and she returned to them as an

innocent child rushes to its ed path down the hillside,