d tremblingly.

As she opened the door upon a winning, noble-faced man with tears on his
cheek, smiling with outstretched arms upon the boy, he hesitated a
moment, took one step forward and then leaped into the open arms, threw
his noble head back, and gazed with lustrous, questioning eyes.

"You don't look like my papa, quite."

"No?" (anxiously).

"'Cause you are changed. But I know you by the love, and you know me,
don't you?"

"By the love, dear boy," with shining eyes, but marble lips.

The child nestled down upon the breast, his chest heaving, while the man
stroked the soft curls, soothing him with every word known to love's
alphabet, till finally, crooning a cradle song, the exhausted child fell
asleep. He had found a father by the love. His faith was saved, and by
it, she who had groped blindly among the tombs had found her Easter.

--_From the Christian Observer_, March 30, 1904.
By Mrs. Helen Strong Thompson.

FOOTNOTES:

[256:A] _St. Luke, xxiv, 13._

257

Say "Yes" and "No" to a child and stick to it. This is the beginning of
discipline.

258

The way to spoil a child is to give it all it wants and require nothing
in return. The way to make a child grow up sensible and unselfish is to
give it little, and require of it much. For it is not what others do for
us that benefits us, but what we do for ourselves and others.

259

Some one truly said, the best way for a man to train up a child in the
way it should go, is to travel that way sometimes himself.

260

_I Kings, i, 6_--"His father had not displeased him at any time in
saying, 'Why hast thou done so?'"

A young man, as he was going to the place of execution, desired to
whisper something into his mother's ear; but when she came, instead of
whispering, he bit off her ear, telling her, that it was because she did
not chastise him for his faults when a boy, he was brought to such an
unhappy end.

261

Could it be believed that a child should be forced to learn the
rudiments of a language which he is never to use, and neglect the
writing a good hand, and casting accounts?

--_Locke._

262

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

--_Milton._

263

Children, a bond of union than which the human heart feels none more
endearing.

264

What children hear at