I haves no righteousness of my own to plead, but, thanks be unto God, I may rejoice in the imputed righteousness of Christ! And that may be yours, too, love, for the asking.
"'Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.' "They are the Master's own words; and He adds: 'For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.'" Meanwhile the contemplated trip of the young men was under discussion in the parlor.

"Dear me!" said Betty, who had just heard of it, "how much fun men and boys do have! Don't you wish you were one of them, Lulu ?" "No, I don't," returned Lulu, promptly.

"I'd like to be allowed to do some of the things they do that we mustn't, but I don't want to be a boy." "That is right," said her father; "there are few things so unpleasant to me as a masculine woman, who wishes herself a man and tries to ape the stronger, coarser sex in dress and manners.

I hope my girls will always be content, and more than content, to be what God has made them." "If you meant to hit me that time, captain," remarked Betty, in a lively tone, "let me tell you it was a miserable failure, for I don't wish I was a man, and never did.

Coarse creatures, as you say--present company always excepted--who would want to be one of them." "I'd never have anything to do with one of them if I were in your place, Bet," laughed her brother.
"Perhaps I shouldn't, only that they seem a sort of necessary evil," she retorted.