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"Ho can you know this? What proof can you give me?" she asked; and no poor creature, whose life was indeed at stake, ever bent forward erly to catch the sentence of life or death, than did A answer

"I know it," he replied rounds of evidence--my own experience, the experience of Mrs Arnot, who is sincerity itself, and the experience of multitudes of others Believers in Jesus Christ have been verifying his proency and condition of life, and if their testier a basis of knowledge No one ever had a better friend than Mrs Arnot has been to race, sharatitude that is beyond words, and yet I am not so conscious of her practical help and friendship as that of the Divine Man who has been le"

Under his words, the hard, dry despair of As, which found expression in low, piteous sobbing

"Oh, ill he come to me?" she asked, "for I cannot doubt after such words"

"When you e to ask his co presence now; but he will come when he sees that you most need him"

"If ever poor creatures needed such a friend as you have described, we need hi her face toward the to her e, "Mother, is it possible that we can find such a friend in our extremity?"

"Amy, I am bewildered, I am overwhelmed"

Haldane carried little Bertha to her crib and covered her with an afghan Then coently, and yet with that quiet firmness which doesyour husband to his quiet sleep we read words which Jesus Christ once spoke to a despairing, grief-stricken woman Take them now as if spoken to you 'Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in h he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die' As your husband said to you, you will all surely ain"

Then he lifted her hand to his lips in a caress that was full of sympathy and respect, and silently left the room