Having, as he said, God as the responsible editor of things inexplicable, his mind was at ease.

His dear child told him that he might know by how far he had advanced already in God's kingdom.

During the mass which we have seen him attend, he had read the prayers and applied his own intelligence to them; from the first, he had risen to the divine idea of the communion of the faithful.

The old neophyte understood the eternal symbol attached to that sacred nourishment, which faith renders needful to the soul after conveying to it her own profound and radiant essence.

When on leaving the church he had seemed in a hurry to get home, it was merely that he might once more thank his dear child for having led him to "enter religion,"-- the beautiful expression of former days.