And it is with these words, taken in a loftier sense, that I would now close my story. Its object has been to lead the reader to search the haunted chamber of his own heart, to discover there the lurking ministers of evil who may, unknown even to himself, have made it their secret abode. Let us resolutely and prayerfully resolve, at whatever cost of humiliation or shame, to know ourselves, to recognize and face the sin that so easily besets us. Let the brickwork of ignorance be thrown down, and let not spiritual sunshine be shut out from the self-deceived heart. _Pride_, _Self-love_, cowardly _Mistrust_ of God's wisdom and goodness, are natural to our fallen nature; but the entrance of His Word into the heart is as that of the glorious beams of the day,--joy, brightness, and holiness follow the admission into its deepest recesses of the pure, life-giving light of Heaven! * * * * * Transcriber's Note: Obvious punctuation errors have been repaired. Archaic and inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been preserved. The question mark "(?)" on page 14 is in the original. (The slang in wich some modern ladies(?) indulge would have sounded....) "Lizzy" and "Lizzie" occur once in this text. This has been preserved. On page 109 "Emma" has been changed to "Emmie". (Emmie was trembling....)