Extract from a Letter.
Now I must allude to a demonstration which came to me the day after I received your kind letter. It was something that, to mortal sight, was terrible to bear, but it was also one that showed me the power of Love and Truth; and I here now say that your kind letter, through God's love, prepared my own heart to go calmly through the trial that awaited me. Time and space forbid giving all the minute particulars, but I will try to give enough so you can understand about it.
A messenger came to my house one morning saying that my grandson in Mattapan was very low, that they were going to carry him to the City Hospital, and his father wanted me to get there as soon as possible,— before they took him away; that was all, and the first I had heard. The messenger left, on my saying I would come at once.
