 The stories of the deaths of two neighborhood children, Charles Trueman and Miss Augusta Noble, for instance, help the Fairchild children to understand how and why they need to prepare their own hearts for salvation.The faithful and "true" Charles has a transcendent deathbed experience (much like Charles Dickens's Little Nell in "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1840–1)), suggesting that he was saved; by contrast, the heedless and disobedient Augusta, who plays with candles, burns up and is presumably damned.Parts II and III have a similar structure; an overarching narrative of the Fairchild family is interspersed with inset moral tales.