This, my dear Esther, is what I always have copied from Amelia's journal.You see the light in which our friend regarded her life on earth, andhow much importance she attached to one _day_--a single day.

As I read what she had written, I felt my soul humbled before God,and I trembled to think of the useless way in which I had hithertospent my time.

You see in particular what Amelia felt on the subject of piety; whatlove her soul had for God! and this is what produced inside her thatactive, sincere, and constant charity.