For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 62: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

58 A Death in the Cloak-room. “Was it right that poor Mary should be born to poverty and disease and wear her young life out m agony, while so many of the wicked are flourishing?, Oh, I have tried not to question or even to think, but the promise of sal- vation grows daily more dull in my ears. I doubt the mercy of God and I cannot help it!” re comicbooks:com