Truth Faithfully Faced Is Strength
A CHILD was once sitting quietly in the window-nook with a book in her hand. Her father, looking up after a long silence, was surprised to find her weeping, apparently in much distress. “What are you reading?” he inquired. “In the Bible,” she answered; “God had just forgiven those people, and then they sinned again; and now he is going to punish them dreadfully with some more deaths and diseases.” Touched with her manifestations of such sympathetic pity, the parent soothingly suggested: “O! perhaps he will not be so severe upon them this time.” And the conscientious child replied: “Indeed, it will be worse; he will have to do it, for he said he would—he said he would.” Any truth, faithfully faced, is strength in itself.