one code of morals and one law of spiritual life, and in course of time she saw her daughters ripening into such a beautiful womanhood, and her sons entering the arena of life not with the simplicity which is ignorant of danger and evil, but with the sterling integrity which baffles the darts of temptation with the panoply of principle and the armor of uprightness.  Unconsciously she elevated the tone of society in which she moved by a life which was a beautiful and earnest expression of patient continuance in well doing.  Paul Clifford’s life has been a grand success, not in the mere accumulation of wealth, but in the enrichment of his moral and spiritual nature.  He is still ever ready to lend a helping hand.  He has not lived merely for wealth and enjoyment, but happiness, lasting and true springs up in his soul as naturally as a flower leaps into blossoms, and whether he is loved or hated, honored or forgotten, he constantly endeavors to make the world better by his example and gladdened by his presence feeling that if every one would be faithful to duty that even here, Eden would spring up in our path, and Paradise be around our way.

Notes

1.  This installment is numbered as a second Chapter I in the original.

2.  The original reads “Jeanette Romaine.”

3.  The original reads “Mr. Roland.”

4.  The original reads “to showing.”

5.  The phrase “that of” is repeated in the original.

6.  A note from the Christian Recorder follows this paragraph:  “[The rest of this chapter was crowded out.  It will appear next week.]”

7.  The original reads:  “if once [or possibly “one”] subject to the lest excitement.”

8.  The original reads “and there was a tone of bitterness in the tone of John Anderson.”

9.  The original reads “by an old friend and college and class mate of mine.”

10.  The original reads “out of those shoulders spring two serpents.”