Your praise is my precious reward," said Blair with affectionate simplicity.
"God has sustained you in the path of duty, and brought you in safety to your home and your mother.

Let us thank him for all his mercies, my son.

Hal is no stranger to prayer now; he will gladly join us." It was indeed the voice of true thanksgiving which rose from those grateful hearts.

He who has contrived joys for the meanest of his creatures, doubtless takes a pure pleasure in the happiness which he gives to his chosen ones even here; and rejoices to know that it is but the foreshadowing of that eternal delight in store for them where parting shall be no more..