who thinks wrong thoughts--thoughts
of power opposed to God--thoughts of sin, of sickness, of accidents,
and all sorts of evil things--beliefs that these things are real, and
that God made or caused them!"

"_Bien_, and you think the Bible speaks truth?"

"Padre! how can you ask that? Why, it says right here that it is given
by inspiration! That means that the men or women who wrote it thought
God's thoughts!"

"That He wrote it, you mean?"

"No, but that those who wrote it were--well, were cleaner window-panes
than other people--that they were so clean that the light shone
through them better than it did through others."

"And what do you think now about Jesus?" he inquired.

"Why, as you once said, that he was the very cleanest window-pane of
all!" she quickly replied.

From that hour the Bible was the girl's constant companion. Daily she
pored over it, delighted, enraptured. Jose marveled at her immediate
spiritual grasp. Instead of the world's manner of looking upon it as
only a collection of beautiful promises and admonitions, she saw
within it the statement of a principle that offered itself as a mighty
tool with which to work out humanity's every-day problems here and
now. From the first she began to make out little lists of collated
scriptural verses, so arranging them that she could read in them a
complete expression of an idea of God. These she would bring to Jose
and, perching herself upon his lap, would expound them, to her own
great delight and the wonder of the man who listened.

"See, Padre," she said, holding up one of these lists, "it says that
'in that day' whatever we ask of him will be given to us. Well, 'that
day' means when we have washed our window-panes clean, and the light
shines through so clear that we can ask in His name. It means when we
have stopped saying that two and two are seven."

"Which means," Jose interpolated, "asking in his character."

"Yes," she replied, "for then we will be just like him. And then
whatever we ask 'believing' will be given to us, for believing'
will then be 'understanding,' will it not? When we know--really
_know_--that we have things, why--why, we have them, that's all!"

She did not wait for his reply, but went on enthusiastically:

"You know, Padre, in order to be like him we have got to 'seek first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness'--His right-thinking. Well,
Jesus said the kingdom of God was within us. Of course it is, for it
is all a