Genre:

Short Fiction, Serial

Subjects:

Theology of Nature, Astronomy, Belief, Feeling

    In speaking of the power of memory, the narrator observes: 'I once knew an orphan child who traced all her religious feelings through after life to a walk taken in India, on a star-light [sic] night, with her adopted mother, at which period that tender parent had taken occasion to lead her mind to the goodness and power of God by explaining to her the nature of the glorious heavenly bodies, scattered over the azure vault, extended above her head' (3).