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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"