Katie Johnstone's Cross by Amm Author:A M. M General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. f " The cross ls heavy. child i but there was One Who bore a heavier for theep -- My Son I -- My Well. Beloved 1 For Him bear thine. and stand With Him at last. and from thy Father's hand Receive thy crown." fftjM??| KPELEN GREY was the minister's only un- t'. lST married daughter. She was her father's counsellor and helper, -- his " right hand," he often called her, bothiin the household and. in his congregation; and was also the Winstanleys' daily governess. It may be supposed, therefore, that on her return home, the day before Good Friday, t J after a three months' stay with her invalid sister, she found a considerable accumulation of work on her hands. Nevertheless, on Good Friday, after the early dinner at home, she set out to spend the afternoon, according to her usual custom, in visiting some of the poor and sick, who were her more immediate care, and whom of course she had not How seen for a long time. Among the latter, it is scarcely necessary to say, she meant to include her old Sunday- scholar, Katie Johnstone. It was one of those lovely days which often come in the end of March or the beginning of April, before the winter has quite quitted its hold, and which, with the delicious foretaste of the coming spring they bring, are often more genial than many a day in May. After having been pent up for some time amidst the muddy streets and crowded houses of a large town, in wet, cheerless March weather, Helen enjoyed keenly the exquisite freshness of the air, pervaded with a trace of the balminess of spring, the soft blue of the sky, the sparkling ripple of the little ri...« less