You yourself have not greater sorrow over this young creature's sin than I have: the difference is this, you confuse the consequences with the sin." "I don't understand metaphysics." "I am not aware that I am talking metaphysics.

I can imagine that if the present occasion be taken rightly, and used well, all that is good in her may be raised to a height unmeasured but by God; while all that is evil and dark may, by His blessing, fade and disappear in the pure light of her child's presence.

Oh, Father! listen to my prayer, that her redemption may date from this time.

Help us to speak to her in the loving spirit of thy Holy Son!" The tears were full in his eyes; he almost trembled in his earnestness.

He was faint with the strong power of his own conviction, and with his inability to move his sister.