when I was alone with Amelia, the next day, she said to me, with that
calm peacefulness which never left her, "I am going away from this
world, Anna; yes, dear Anna, I am going to depart; I feel it, and ...
I am preparing myself for it!"

I tried to turn away her thoughts from this subject; I told her that
she was mistaken, and that God would certainly restore her; but she
stopped me with firmness of manner, and said, "Do you envy my
happiness, Anna? Do you wish to prevent me from going to my Heavenly
home, to my Saviour, unto his light and glory?" The entrance of her
father and the Doctor prevented my reply, and I left the room in tears.

"You must not cry," said her mother to me. "We must pray, and above
all, seek profit from the occasion. The time is short! Her end is at
hand! But," added this servant of Christ, "_that_ end is the
beginning of a life which shall have no end!"

Three more days passed away. On the fourth, we had some faint hope,
but the following day, all had vanished, and towards evening, Amelia
declared, that the Lord was about to take her.

"Yes, my dear parents, my excellent father and mother," she said,
with a beam of heavenly joy on her countenance, "I am about to leave
you; but I do not leave my God, for I am going to see Him, 'face to
face.'"

"My dear parents," she continued, affectionately, "rejoice at my
departure; I am going to Heaven a little before you, it is true, but
it is _only before you_, and you know it; and the Apostle says,
that, 'to be with Christ is far better.'"