What is the normal type of Christian faith?
Is it not marked by the simplicity and completeness of the child's ?" "And yet, Sir," replied Jack, "that simplicity and completeness is the result of inexperience.

Surely the ideal faith is not that which ignores the facts and experiences of life ?" "Not exactly," replied his father, "yet I am not sure but after all, 'the perfect love which casteth out fear' is one which ignores the experiences of life, or, rather, classifies them in a larger category.
That is, it refuses to be disturbed by life's experiences, because among those experiences there is a place for the enlarged horizon, the clearer vision.

But I am not arguing about this matter; I rather wish to make a confession and enlist your aid.

Frankly, the boy's words gave me an uneasy sense of failure in my duty to this young man; or, perhaps I should say, my privilege.

And really, it is no wonder! Here is this little chap actually carrying every day a load of intense concern for our friend, as to whether, as he puts it himself, 'he has come back.' And, after all, Jack, I wonder if this should not have been more upon our minds?
The young man, I take it, since his mother's death has little in his home life to inspire him with religious faith and feeling.