"Why, Mr.Holbrook, boys don't go, do they ?" "No," said the minister sadly, "they don't; because I don't know of another boy of your age in this whole town who loves the Saviour.

Only think what a work there is for you to do!" Tip went home with his brain full of new thoughts.

No, he didn't go home; he only went as far as the elm-tree, and there he sat down and read what Mr.Holbrook had marked in his Bible.

Yes, that was just the way in which he had been praying for Kitty; and it was certainly true, as Mr.Holbrook had said, nothing could surprise him more than that Kitty should really and truly come to Jesus.
Before he went from under the tree that day, he prayed this prayer: "O God, teach me to believe that you will make Kitty love Jesus, and show me how to help her." After this, of course he looked out for his chances in which to work, and of course he found them,--found one that very day.

After dinner Kitty wandered off by herself.