"I—I'm going now—good-bye—all. He gives me peace—perfect—peace;" and then fell sweetly asleep in Jesus. "He giveth his beloved sleep," repeated the kind minister. "Look at her now! The peace of God which passeth all understanding dwells in her now and forevermore."
The next Sabbath her body was carried to the church, where a sermon was preached from her favorite text,—"Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God."
The clergyman reminded the children of her who had so truly and earnestly been a peace-maker, and entreated them to follow her example, that they might have peace in life and triumph in death.
The influence of Hatty was long felt. By her entreaties on her dying bed, her aunt and uncle Oliver, long estranged, were brought together, and ever after lived as she would have had them, caring tenderly for poor Esther, till her own peaceful death, two years later.
My dear little reader, will you not try to be a peace-maker?
Transcriber's Notes:
Text spells the contraction "won't" without the apostrophe (wont). This was retained.
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
[Page 62], "peacably" changed to "peaceably" (peaceably with all men)