Gatty looked up suddenly. "Tell me what to say to Him."

Mrs Dorothy scarcely hesitated a moment.

"`Teach me to do Thy will,'" she answered. "That holds everything. You

cannot do His will unless you are one of His redeemed. He must save

you, and hold you up, and guide you to glory, if you do His will--not

because you do it, for the salvation cometh first; but without the one,

there cannot be the other. And he that doeth the will of God soon

learns to love it, better than any mortal thing. `Oh, how love I Thy

law!' saith David. `There is nothing on earth that I desire in

comparison of Thee.'"

She kissed both the girls again, and they went away.

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