"It is a common saying, Agnes, that 'example is better than precept,'" observed Mrs. White. "If we must search carefully into our motives for the sake of our own souls, we must also be watchful over our conduct, for others' sakes as well as our own. Never can we too earnestly study, too carefully follow the Saviour's command which refers to the outward behaviour of those who have the hidden motive of love,—'Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.' (Matt. v. 14, 16.)" NEW STORIES BY A. L. O. E. No. 2—GOOD-BYE. NEW YORK: GENERAL PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SUNDAY SCHOOL. UNION AND CHURCH BOOK SOCIETY. 762 BROADWAY. 1865. [Illustration: No. 2. GOOD-BYE.] GOOD-BYE. "GOOD-BYE to you, Mr. Aylmer; I'm sorry that we're not to see you again till the summer. You've always been ready with a good word, ay, and a helping hand too for the poor. I'll miss your pleasant smile in those dull, dark wintry days as have little enough to light 'em. And little Emmy—she'll miss you too, won't you, my lamb?" said the Widow Cowell, as she lifted up in her arms a pretty blue-eyed child of about four years of age, to bid good-bye to the Catechist who was going to a distant part, of the country. "Good-bye, Mary Cowell," said Aylmer, shaking with kindness the thin hand which the widow held out; "and good-bye to you, dear little one," he added, as bending forward he kissed the brow of the child, between her clustering locks of gold. "It's a solemn word, 'good-bye,' when we think of the meaning that's in it." "I did not know as how it had any particular meaning," said Mary. "It's a word that we're always a-saying, and sometimes with a heavy heart." "'Good-bye,' is 'God-be-with-you,' shortened to a single word. It is a blessing to the one who departs, echoed back to the one who remains. God be with you, Mary Cowell; may you feel His presence in the street—in the shop—by your board—by your bed—in your heart! You'll have many a temptation to struggle against—God be with you in the hour of temptation! You'll have many a trial to bear; God be with you then, and he will turn all these trials into blessings! You've a little one there, dear to your heart; remember that, like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him!"