y,
which had been unstained before. Out of a clear sky it came.

In amazement Ruth watched her friend. She saw her suffer but she saw no
conquering bitterness, heard no words of wild rebellion. She looked into
a sweet calm face and saw a girl less than twenty, with life's
conditions changed in a moment, adjust herself to the new conditions
and go on. Seeking a solution she questioned her friend and met a
Person. Day after day as she saw Him revealed in that heroic life, as
she beheld the girl overcoming in His strength natural resentment
against the injustice and unkindness of those who would make her suffer
for the sins of her parents, the facts were swallowed up in the Person
and she loved Him.

Together, the past summer, in a rest camp for mothers and babies they
worked out the commands of the Person who had made it possible for them
to take up life after bitter loss and find it sweet.

If one could summon to a central place the girls who have met the Person
what an inspiration they would be! Of every sort and condition, of every
color and nation, speaking languages new and old and dialects that have
never been written, all uniting in the testimony that He has made life
great for them.

The facts are in chaotic state. Parts of truth and segments of universal
fact are waiting for man to unite them. Only the perfect whole can speak
with certainty and we must wait for that. The creeds are countless. They
do not matter much. The Person said little about them. They are just
our poor attempts to put in words--God and His will. It is

"Not the Christ of our subtile creeds
But the Lord of our hearts, of our homes,
Of our hopes, our prayers, our needs;
The brother of want and blame,
The lover of woman and men,
With a love that puts to shame
All passions of mortal ken."

The only way to meet a fact is to face it, follow it and see where it
will lead. It is prejudice that blinds one's eyes to facts. It is only
man's limited vision, that makes a part seem as a whole, that accepts as
_fact_ the thing he would _like_ to be a fact, that one need fear. Facts
that _are_ facts need never cause one to doubt. For fact is truth and
truth leads to God. The business of every church and every teacher of
religion is to discover the facts, _and present the Person_.

If the girl herself is reading these words let her be assured that more
than any array of facts that she can gather, more than any proofs man
can su