AMY'S TRIALS:

OR,

A CHARACTER MISUNDERSTOOD.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "ALICE GRAY."

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A GREAT PIECE OF WORK AND A CHANGE AFTER IT

CHAPTER VI.

PREFACE.

No words of preface can be necessary beyond just calling the attention of the reader to the following beautiful verses-the object of the writer being merely to work out more at length the lessons there taught:

"Saviour, beneath thy yoke

My wayward heart doth pine,
All unaccustom'd to the stroke

Of love divine;

Thy chastisements, my God, are hard to bear,
Thy cross is heavy for frail flesh to wear."

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Perishing child of clay!

Thy sighing I have heard!

Long have I marked thy evil way,

How thou hast erred:

You fear not, by my own most holy Name,
I will shed healing through thy sin-sick frame."