"I'd like him if he would cure folks' _bodies_," began the boy who had a
sick mother, speaking in a doubtful, somewhat dissatisfied tone.

"He does," Flossy said, quickly. "Don't people's bodies get well
sometimes? and who can cure bodies except the one who made them? If you
want your mother cured you ought to try him. If she is to be made well
you may be sure that he can do it; but why should he so long as you do
not care enough about it to ask him?"

There was a rush and a bustle among the crowds in the distance.
Sunday-school session was over, and the great company were moving for
seats for the morning service. The boys took the alarm and fled, each
glancing back to nod and smile at the bright apparition who had told
them a story. Flossy picked up her Bible; she had not needed to use it
during this talk. The story of Bethesda had burned itself so into her
heart with that morning reading that she had no need to look at it
again. She gave a thoughtful little sigh.

"I don't know about that being teaching," she said within her heart,
"but I certainly told them about Jesus, and I told them it was Jesus who
had 'made me whole.' I made my own experience 'witness' for me to that
degree. If that is what they mean by teaching I like to do it. I mean to
go to Sunday-school just as soon as I get home, and if I find out that
they just tell about things as they are in the Bible I can do it. I can
make the boys listen to me, I know."

Bright little fairy that she was! There was a new glow about her face.
She was waking to the thought that there was such a thing as power over
people's brains. No danger but she will use her knowledge. Let me tell
you another thing that Chautauqua did for her. It planted the seed that
shall blossom into splendid teaching. There was one teacher who gave
many glances that morning to the little group around that old tree
stump. Mr. Roberts, from his point of observation, not far away, watched
this scene from beginning to end. It fascinated him. He saw the timid
beginning and the ever-increasing interest, until, when Flossy closed
her Bible and arose, he turned his eyes from her with a quiet smile in
them, and to himself he said: "Unless I am very greatly mistaken she has
found something that she can do."

CHAPTER XX.

PEOPLE WHO, "HAVING EYES, SEE NOT."

"Girls!" said Eurie, as she munched a doughnut, which she had brought
from the lunch-table with her, and lounged on a camp-chair, wait