She was a child looking about to find the face of her Father in heaven: he was but one of God's babies, who had been lying on his knees, receiving contentedly and happily the good things he gave him, but never looking up to find the eyes of him from whom the good gifts came.

And now the heart of the old man, touched by the motion of the child's heart--yearning after her Father in heaven, and yet scarcely believing that he could be so good as her father on earth--began to stir uneasily within him.

And he went down on his knees and hid his face in his hands.
But Annie, though not satisfied, went away comforted.

After such a day of agony and humiliation, Mr Cowie's kiss came gracious with restoration and blessing.

It had something in it which was not in Mr Brown's sermon.