orth, and the way of salvation shown to be so
wise, so free, so suitable, it seemed foolish and unreasonable to doubt
any more. I had heard all about it many and many a time before, but the
words seemed to come home to my heart to-day. It was like the sudden
shining out of a light in a dark place. Maybe I'll go back again to my
old doubts and discontent. But I hope not; I believe not. I know He is
able to keep me; and I think He will."

Mrs Lee had laid herself down by Harry, and was listening now, with her
eyes shaded by her hand. She lay so long and so quietly that Christie
thought she must have fallen asleep, and began softly to turn over the
leaves of her Bible again; and she quite started when, in the course of
half an hour, she spoke again.

"You said something about God's love in redemption. What did you mean
by it? Tell me more of what the preacher said."

Christie hesitated a moment, and was at a loss what to say: "I can't
mind all he said. That is, I can't mind the exact words. But he told
us what a blessed thing it is for us that our salvation, from beginning
to end, is God's own work, and how impossible it is that we could be
saved if it depended on ourselves."

"Yes; even if one could begin one's life again. It would be all the
same. We might avoid some errors and keep from falling into some
mistakes; but after all, it would come to the same thing in the end, I
dare say. There is no use in wishing for another chance."

Mrs Lee sighed; and Christie hesitated a moment, and then said: "We can
do nothing to save ourselves, ma'am, and all else that we have to do
grows easy, because of the grace which God gives, and because of a
knowledge of Christ's love to us. It is easy to do the will of One who
loves us, and whom we love."

There was a long pause after this, which Mrs Lee broke by saying: "What
was it you said about `no eye to pity, and no arm to save'?"

"Here it is," said Christie; and she eagerly read the words from her
Bible, and many more besides--a verse here and a verse there, as her own
judgment or Effie's marginal marks suggested: such as, "_Surely He hath
borne our griefs and carried our sorrows_.

"_He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our
iniquities_.

"_For when we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly_.

"_For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to die_.

"_But God c