ll now, had been a novel pleasure,
but was getting a little monotonous, although she was deeply interested
and more pleased with the Bible readings than she would have thought
possible, because, as she had said herself, the Bible had been a sealed
book to her before. She was very careful to conceal this new feeling
from Kate, for at least, she would not lay one obstacle in _her_ path,
and after a few moments' desultory conversation, they went on as before.

"The next affirmation is about the will, what can you find for that?"
asked Grace, as they had resumed their study again.

"I have found it already," replied Kate, with her finger on the passage.
"In Phil. ii: 13: 'For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to
do of his good pleasure.' That subordination to the will of God runs all
through the New Testament."

"Here is the last one," resumed Grace, referring to the letter again. "I
am subject to God's law and can not sin, suffer or die," she read.

"Oh, that does not sound right; I do _not_ see how it can be right to
say such things," interposed Kate, darkening again.

She looked up a reference to sin and turned to the sixth chapter of
Romans. "I don't see very clearly yet," she faltered, after she had
finished the chapter.

"Yes, in the 16th verse is the key to it all," said Grace, looking over
the page with her. "The idea is, if we admit sin or talk about it, we
are committing sin, for it is wrong to do either."

"I understand a little better now, but it is not an easy matter to be so
good," sighed Kate.

"But we are given these rules in order to know _how_ to be good. Let us
sit as we did last night, and say these affirmations," suggested Grace,
determined to do her duty, for Kate's sake at least.

Diligence and faithfulness never fail to bring forth fruit, and they
were laboring hard, both with soil and seed.

CHAPTER XIX.

"Each of us is a distinct flower or tree in the spiritual garden of
God,--precious each for its own sake in the eyes of Him who is even
now making us,--each of us watered and shone upon and filled with
life for the sake of His flower, His completed being, which will
blossom out of Him at last to the glory and pleasure of the great
Gardener. For each has within him a secret of Divinity; each is
growing toward the revelation of that secret to himself, and so to
the full reception, according to his measure of the
Divine."--_Ge