It will not be wrong to ask him for that ?" "No, not if you ask in submission to his will, remembering that no one of us knows what is really for our highest good.

Remember his own prayer in his agony there in the garden of Gethsemane, 'Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done.' "He is our example and we must strive to be equally submissive to the Father's will.

Remember what the dear Master said to Peter, 'What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.'" "Mamma, I will try to be perfectly submissive to his will, even if it is to take you away from me; but oh, I must pray, pray, _pray_ as hard as I can that it may please him to spare your dear life and let me keep my mother at least till I am grown to be a man.

It won't be wrong, mamma ?" "No, my darling boy, I think not--if with it all you can truly, from your heart, say, 'thy will, not mine, be done.'" When Captain Raymond followed his wife and little ones to Ion, he found there a distressed household, anxious and sorely troubled over the suffering and danger of the dearly beloved mother and mistress.

Violet met him on the veranda, her cheeks pale and showing traces of tears, her eyes full of them.
"My darling!" he exclaimed in surprise and alarm, "what is the matter ?" He clasped her in his arms as he spoke, and dropping her head upon his shoulder, she sobbed out the story of her mother's suffering and the trial that awaited her on the morrow.
His grief and concern were scarcely less than her own, but he tried to speak words of comfort to both her and the others to whom the loved invalid was so inexpressibly dear.