Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org)) Lucy Raymond; OR, THE CHILDREN'S WATCHWORD. BY THE AUTHOR OF 'KATIE JOHNSTONE'S CROSS.' TORONTO: JAMES CAMPBELL AND SON. CONTENTS. CHAP. I. MISS PRESTON'S LAST SUNDAY, II. LUCY'S HOME, III. MORE HOME SCENES, IV. NELLY'S SUNDAY EVENING, V. STRAWBERRYING, VI. A MISSION, VII. TEMPTATIONS, VIII. PARTINGS, IX. INTRODUCTIONS, X. NEW EXPERIENCES, XI. A START IN LIFE, XII. AMBITION, XIII. A FRIENDSHIP, XIV. AN UNEXPECTED RECOGNITION, XV. THE FLOWER FADETH, XVI. DARKNESS AND LIGHT, XVII. HOME AGAIN, XVIII. A FAREWELL CHAPTER, LUCY RAYMOND. I. _Miss Preston's Last Sunday_. "Tell me the old, old story Of unseen things above-- Of Jesus and His glory, Of Jesus and His love." The light of a lovely Sabbath afternoon in June lay on the rich green woodlands, still bright with the vivid green of early summer, and sparkled on the broad river, tossed by the breeze into a thousand ripples, that swept past the village of Ashleigh. It would have been oppressively warm, but for the breeze which was swaying the long branches of the pine-trees around the little church, which from its elevation on the higher ground looked down upon the straggling clusters of white houses nestling in their orchards and gardens that sloped away below. The same breeze, pleasantly laden with the mingled fragrance of the pines and of the newly-cut hay, fanned the faces of the children, who in pretty little groups--the flickering shadows of the pines falling on their light, fluttering summer dresses--were approaching the church, the grave demeanour of a few of the elder ones showing that their thoughts were already occupied by the pleasant exercises of the Sunday school.