Seeing this did more for Jo than the wisest sermons,the saintliest hymns, the most fervent prayers that any voice could utter. For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust',the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.