Part 20 (1/2)

Turning swiftly to the hall, the wo the corridor tohim to one side, she told with rapture of her encounter and the sweet expectancy below

”Now, Harold, Heaven has sent us a child, who shall be the angel to roll away the stone frorave His wonderful vision must not be darkened, neither his faith destroyed Rise, lorious hour of your life 'I shall know him by the love,' he said Let us see that he does”

Returning for the child and extending her hand with a serly asked, ”Will you wash and comb me to meet my papa? It isn't too late yet, is it?”

The voice was half a sob, but full of hope The ineffable trust pierced her heart while reassuring hio to hily

As she opened the door upon a winning, noble-facedwith outstretched arms upon the boy, he hesitated a moment, took one step forward and then leaped into the open arazed with lustrous, questioning eyes

”You don't look like my papa, quite”

”No?” (anxiously)

”'Cause you are changed But I know you by the love, and you know me, don't you?”

”By the love, dear boy,” with shi+ning eyes, but marble lips

The child nestled down upon the breast, his chest heaving, while thehim with every word known to love's alphabet, till finally, crooning a cradle song, the exhausted child fell asleep He had found a father by the love His faith was saved, and by it, she who had groped blindly a the tombs had found her Easter

--_From the Christian Observer_, March 30, 1904

By Mrs Helen Strong Thompson

FOOTNOTES:

[256:A] _St Luke, xxiv, 13_

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Say ”Yes” and ”No” to a child and stick to it This is the beginning of discipline

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The way to spoil a child is to give it all it wants and require nothing in return The way to ive it little, and require of it much For it is not what others do for us that benefits us, but e do for ourselves and others

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Some one truly said, the best way for a o, is to travel that way sos, i, 6_--”His father had not displeased hi, 'Why hast thou done so?'”