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Was his faith contagious? Did the pathos of his voice, his strongly one before toman's heart? Or, in answer to the prayer, was there present One whose province it is to give life? Like the wind that mysteriously rises and comes toward one with its viewless, yet distinctly felt power Haldane was conscious of influences at work in his heart that were as potent as they were inco away Deep e was distinct save a rush of feeling which seehty tide, and bear hiht; this hat he had hoped; this strong, joyous feeling, welling up in his heart like a spring leaping into the sunlight, must be conversion

When he arose frolad radiance shone through the the doctor's hand, he said brokenly: "I believe your prayer has been answered I never felt so strangely--so happy before"

"Come with me," cried the old man, impetuously, "come with me Your mother ain';" and a few e, on his ith the enthusiastic doctor, to his old home

"We won't peryravelled road "We will descend upon your mother and sisters like an avalanche of happiness"

The curtains in the sitting-rooroup was before theance and taste, but the very genius of dreariness seemed to brood over its occupants The so dresses see upon theloom of the shadoas intensified by their air of despondency and the pallor of their faces The younger daughter was reading, but the elder and the mother held their hands listlessly in their laps, and their eyes were fixed on vacancy, after the hts are busy with painful thelance, and rushed in, exclaiive me!"

His presence was so unexpected and his onset so impetuous that thehad no tiive her ard son, of whom she had washed her hands

Her rief, and she returned his embrace with equal heartiness