also bear the name of Eye-bright, Euphrasia, because you are the light and joy of my eyes. Come, you clear-seeing one, and be the light to my feet, and guide me whithersoever you will, whithersoever God wills. I am satisfied and thankful."

Somewhat later, when the excited feelings had subsided, Professor Norrby said:

"We have both of us a great debt to discharge to the Lord of Life, my daughter, and we will live for that purpose. The old life is past, and a new life has commenced for us both. Be up therefore and doing, my daughter; we have no time for sickness. We have a great deal to do, a great deal to accomplish together. You must help me in a work to which I will devote the remainder of my life and strength. The first idea of this work I received from you, but the plan of it I have matured myself during the last few months. There is wanting in our literature, a bridge between the philosophy of paganism and Christianity, to bear over the most important questions of the soul and of life. This bridge we will build, my

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daughter. But for this purpose new labours and new studies await us. We must thoroughly study together the old Fathers of the Church, my child. We must again introduce these glorious teachers into the studies of our youth, where they are now so unjustifiably overlooked. They stand as lightbearers between the old time and the new, and wave their torches so that their flames cast a clear light over both. The poets and thinkers of paganism speak by their lips, as do also the Apostles of Christ; they possess the gift of testing the spirits, the ideas of the new life, of the higher transformation of the soul, and the community at large, fill their minds and their writings; and these glorious teachers are now cast aside, merely because it requires some trouble to draw forth their treasures from their envelopments of centuries. But we will not be afraid of the labour, my daughter. Neither should we separate the sun's rays from the sun, nor least of all the dawn of day from the eternal light which it announces, and which, yet unnamed, lives in it; and we should also know how to separate, and to set forth in its

own strength, the light and the life which makes everything new! And we will call our united work, The Old and the New Life. Come then, my daughter, the light of my eyes, and help me in the work for a better future; and help me also to make the spot of earth which we inhabit, a little better, a little happier, a little more worthy the kingdom of God!

"To-morrow we will return to Östervi. Your country home, and the fresh air of your woods, will complete that which is wanting for the re-establishment of your health."

As when a youthful warrior hears the call of his captain to hasten to his banner, so felt Rosa when she heard the strong words of her father. Sickness, physical prostration, old depressing memories, all at once vanished, or were swallowed up by the life and the future which her father laid open before her.

He had a second time given her life.

And when, in the tranquillity of evening, the lamp was lighted, and Rosa's aged teacher came to administer the holy sacrament of the Lord's

Supper, to one at the point of death, as he believed, he found in the festally prepared room, one,-nay two, who had risen from the dead, the father and the daughter.

THE MURMUR OF THE GROVES.

WHEN they again, in the pomp of midsummer, murmured above the flowery meadows, Rosa again wandered through them with the tint of health on her cheek.

But, "honour be, to whom honour is due;" and we will candidly confess, to the honour of Mrs. Carlander, that not alone the prescriptions of the physician, not alone the freshness of the groves, not alone the father and the animating labour with him, but that also even Aunt Karin's medicines, her strengthening "physic," and her fragrant vivifying spice-bath, contributed to the perfect restoration of Rosa's health.

Healthy again, both in body and soul, and at

ease in her mind as regarded her father, Rosa was now able to devote more care and attention to her brother, and he really needed them.