It was a little singular that Phyllis was
suffering, also, from a complaint almost analogous; and when they had
bid each other a farewell in the spring, they had understood it to
be the last of earth. Indeed, Phyllis had whispered to Elizabeth in
that parting moment, "I give you a rendezvous in heaven, my darling!"
Often also during the summer Bessie had heard her mother softly singing
to herself:
"I look unto the gates of His high place,
Beyond the sea;
For I know he is coming shortly,
To summon me.
And when a shadow falls across the window,
Of my room,
Where I am working my appointed task,
I lift my head to watch the door, and ask
If he is come?
And the Angel answers sweetly,
In my home,
Only a few more shadows,
And he will come."
She was laid with her fathers in the old churchyard at Hallam. And
O, how sweet is the sleep of those whom the King causeth to rest!
Neither lands nor houses nor gold, nor yet the joy of a fond and
Faithful lover, tempted Elizabeth Hallam to leave the path of honor and
rectitude; but when her trial was finished, bear witness how God
blessed her! giving her abundantly of all good things in this life,
and an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, and which shall never
pass away from her.
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