He sees we don't understand that He can't do without us, and that we can't do without Him.

And at last, when we feel God's need of us, then it becomes possible"-- the Bishop paused--"to say the difficult word, to do the difficult deed." Did she understand?
Who shall say! Sometimes it seems as if no actual word reaches us that Love would fain say to our unrest and misery.

But our troubled hearts are nevertheless conscious by some other channel, some medium more subtle than thought and speech, that Love and Peace have drawn very near to us.

It is only reflected dimly through dear human faces that some of us can catch a glimpse of "the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." The small tortured face relaxed between the two calm ones.

The sunny room was quite still.