"I feel that God has been very good to me in so changing my circumstances that I can be with you almost constantly to aid you in the hard task of learning to control the fiery temper inherited from me.

Yet, as I have often told you, dear child, the hardest part of the fight must inevitably be your own, and only by the help of him who has all power in heaven and in earth can you conquer at last.
"I want you to feel that in your inmost soul, and to beware of self-confidence, which was, I think, the cause of your sad failure of a few weeks ago." "Yes, papa," she said humbly, "I believe I had begun to feel that I was quite reformed, so did not watch and pray as constantly as I used to, and then almost before I knew it I was in a passion with poor Alma." "'When I am weak, then am I strong!' the apostle says," returned her father; "that is when we feel our weakness and trust in the strength of our Almighty Saviour; of him who has said, 'In me is thine help.' It is help, daughter, which is never refused to those who look humbly to Jesus for it." "I am so glad the Bible tells us that," she said.
They walked on in silence for a little, then Lulu said, "Papa, I asked Cousin Molly last night if Professor Manton still had his school at Oakdale.

She said, 'Yes, is your papa going to send you there ?' and I was so glad I could answer, 'No, ma'am; he is going to teach me himself.' Then Cousin Molly said, 'Oh, is he?
I am sure that will be far pleasanter for you, dear.

The professor is not very popular, and I hear that his school grows smaller.'" "Ah, then, don't you think it would be only kind in me to put my eldest daughter there as a pupil ?" asked the captain jestingly.
"Not to me, papa, I am sure," she answered, lifting to his smiling eyes that said as plainly as any words could have spoken that she had no fear that he would do any such thing.
"No; and I do not know what could induce me to do so," he returned.

"So you need never ask it, but must try to content yourself with the tutor who has had charge of your education ever since Woodburn became our home." "I don't need to try, papa," she said with a happy laugh; "for it's just as easy as anything.