He will take care of me and my helpless little ones.
"I have been thinking of one of our noble pioneer women of the West, whose husband was killed by the Indians, leaving her alone in the wilderness with six small children, no white person within several miles.
"Her friends urged her to leave the dangerous spot, but she said, 'No, this farm is all I have for my own and my children's support, and I must stay here.

God will protect and help us.' And he did; the Indians, though they knew she was alone, never attacked her.

She lay sometimes all night with a broadax in her hands, ready to defend her babes; but though she could see the savages come into her yard and light their pipes at her brushwood fire, they never approached the house ?" Elsie's eyes kindled with enthusiastic admiration, then filled with tears.

"Dear, brave Christian woman! and you will emulate her courage and faith." "I shall try; the hearts of the Ku Klux of to-day are no less in His hands than those of the Indians of that day or this." "That is certainly true and he never fails those who put their trust in him," Mr.Travilla said, rising.

"Now, wife, I will leave you here while I go for Barton." "Oh stay a moment, Edward," she exclaimed, "a thought has struck me: it is not usual for you to go for the doctor yourself: might it not excite suspicion?
And can you not trust Uncle Joe as your messenger ?" "Your plan is best," he said with a pleased smile.