We speak with awed tenderness of our unseen guardian angels, but
have we not all had our guiding angels, who came to us in visible
form, and, recognized or unknown, kept beside us on our difficult
path until they had done for us all they could? It seems to me as
if one had succeeded another by my side all through the years,--
always some one whose influence made my heart stronger and my way
clearer; though sometimes it has been only a little child that
came and laid its hand into my hand as if I were its guide,
instead of its being mine.
My dear and honored Lady-Principal was surely one of my strong
guiding angels, sent to meet me as I went to meet her upon my
life-road, just at the point where I most needed her. For the one
great thing she gave her pupils,--scope, often quite left out of
woman's education,--I especially thank her. The true education is
to go on forever. But how can there be any hopeful going on
without outlook? And having an infinite outlook, how can progress
ever cease? It was worth while for me to go to those Western
prairies, if only for the broader mental view that opened upon me
in my pupilage there.
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