But to Timokles she seemed no nearer to accepting Christ than when she was in Alexandria.

How little we know of the heart-experiences of those persons nearest to us! Timokles drew nearer.

His mother heard his step, and turned toward him, but in place of the homesick longing he had expected to see in her eyes, there was a look that thrilled his soul.
"What is it, my mother ?" he asked, gently.
"Timokles," she answered softly, "I was thinking but now of Alexandria and of our dear home there.

Timokles, if God had not driven me into the desert, would I ever have found him ?" Timokles trembled with exceeding joy.

Could she be speaking of the real God, not of Egypt's idols?
"Hast thou found Him--the Christian's God--my mother ?" he asked tremulously.
A holy awe looked from his mother's face.
"Did not his Son say, 'Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out' ?" she answered.