Led Into Light (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...And another soul in heaven?' HAT night Nat was worse. As the shades of evening fell, fever ran high, and his mind wandered. ' Jesus--shine, ' he murmured. ' Darkness --fill with light.' Fragments of the little prayer which Chrissie and he had so often repeated together fell from his lips. Then he would call pitifully for his grandfather and sister, or start and shudder, in sudden terror, as the dreadful scene of the preceding day gradually returned upon his memory. ' Poor little lad ' said one of the nurses. ' He'll never stand much of that. He had no strength to begin with, and this burning fever will soon exhaust him. We'll not have him with us long.' And so Nat tossed and moaned the long night through; the inflammation increasing in the wounded arm, and the fever gaining a deadlier hold. His kind nurse watched and tended him with the utmost care, though many other little patients made constant demands on time and strength. Yes, and love too; for without that, though every duty be most strictly fulfilled, the nursing of little children would ever be incomplete. But Nurse Neal did love them, and, as she caught from time to time fragments of his favourite verse from Nat's lips, as he murmured fitfully of the ' Morning Star, ' and ' the Light of life, ' she thanked God that this little one was 'meet for the inheritance of the saints in light, ' for she felt quite sure that for these weary little feet ' travelling days' would soon be done. Very bitterly did poor Chrissie miss her little brother from her side. Still, she was glad that he was spared the tiring heat and long standing, and that such food as he was able to take was now plentifully supplied him. She and her grandfather had to live now on the scantiest fare. Though Chrissie had not spoken of...