"Uncle Tom," she said, one day, when she was reading to her friend, "I can understand why Jesus wanted to die for us." "Why, Miss Eva?" "Because I've felt so, too." "What is it Miss Eva?--I don't understand." "I can't tell you; but, when I saw those poor creatures on the boat, you know, when you came up and I,--some had lost their mothers, and some their husbands, and some mothers cried for their little children--and when I heard about poor Prue,--oh, wasn't that dreadful!--and a great many other times, I've felt that I would be glad to die, if my dying could stop all this misery. I would die
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