father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.’ If He a Father let Him show Himself a Father,—so I pleaded; and I ventured to say when they came back who watched me, ‘I shall never have such agony again from this moment, for God has heard my prayer.’ I bless God that ease came, and the racking pain never returned. Faith mastered it by laying hold upon God in His own revealed character,—that character in which, in our darkest hour, we are best able to appreciate Him. I think