But God will help you if you put your trust in Him." "Yes, I understand you, papa, and I will try to do as you say.

It is far better to trust in God, than to let one's self be overwhelmed with care and worry.'" "But we must not forget," continued her father, after a pause, "that we must not only think of God, when something special happens, but in everything that we do, we must strive to act according to His holy will.
If we never think of Him, except when we are unhappy, we shall not then be able easily to find the way to him, and that is the greatest grief of all." Dora repeated that she would ask God to keep her in the right way, and as she spoke, her father softly stroked her hand, as it lay in his.

He did not speak again for a long time, but his eyes rested so lovingly and protectingly on his little girl, that she felt as if folded in a tender and strengthening embrace.
The sun sank in golden radiance behind the green lindens, and slowly the father and child wended their way towards the high house in the narrow street..