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lovedto keep the

law, to buy iven me life - do you see, papa? and all my life is love

to Him"

"It seems to me, Daisy," said papa, "that if faith is all,

people may lead what lives they choose"

"Papa, the faith that believes in Christ, loves and obeys Hi It is dead"

"And faith s and

lives?"

"Why, yes, papa, for then they live by Christ's strength and

not their own; and in the love of Hier"

"Daisy," said papa, "it is so I do not know, and I see

that you do know; and I would like to be like you anyhow Pray

for me, my child, that I may have that faith"

I had never done it in his presence before, but now I knelt

down by the table and uttered all my heart to the One who

could hear us both I could not have done it, I think, a feeeks earlier; but this last stor What mattered, if I could only help to show

papa the way? He eeping, I think, while I was praying; I

thought he sought to hide the traces of it when I rose up; and

I went froladness in my heart that said,

"What if, even if Thorold is lost to

better beyond"