‘Your very very sad account of dear Otho received this morning makes one think that, even before this reaches you, the sufferer may have been called _home_! Oh what a blessing it is that it is indeed Home.... Dear Otho has had a sorely trying journey, wintry and wearisome indeed; but there is no shadow, never can be a shadow, on the Home to which he is bound. He will never have to leave it again, to learn the lesson of patience in pain. He will, through his Lord’s merits, be ready there to welcome the dear ones whom he is now leaving behind,--when they too may quit their school, and go to their Father in Heaven....