ld come. Her heart leaped for joy.

"There is no place," said the faith curist, "too humble for the
messenger of heaven to enter. I am following One who went among the
humblest and the lowliest, and was not ashamed to be found among
publicans and sinners. I will come to your child, madam, and put her
again under the law. The law of life is health, and no one who will
accept the law need be sick. I am not a physician. I do not claim to
be. I only claim to teach people how not to be sick. My fee is five
dollars, merely to defray my expenses, that's all. You know the
servant is worthy of his hire. And in this little bottle here I have
an elixir which has never been known to fail in any of the things
claimed for it. Since the world has got used to taking medicine we
must make some concessions to its prejudices. But this in reality is
not a medicine at all. It is only a symbol. It is really liquefied
prayer and faith."

Martha did not understand anything of what he was saying. She did not
try to; she did not want to. She only felt a blind trust in him that
filled her heart with unspeakable gladness.

Tremulous with excitement, she doled out her poor dollars to him,
seized the precious elixir and hurried away home to Lucy, to whom she
was carrying life and strength. The little one made a weak attempt to
smile at her mother, but the light flickered away and died into
greyness on her face.

"Now mammy's little gal gwine to git well fu' sho'. Mammy done bring
huh somep'n' good." Awed and reverent, she tasted the wonderful elixir
before giving it to the child. It tasted very like sweetened water to
her, but she knew that it was not, and had no doubt of its virtues.

Lucy swallowed it as she swallowed everything her mother brought to
her. Poor little one! She had nothing to buoy her up or to fight
science with.

In the course of an hour her mother gave her the medicine again, and
persuaded herself that there was a perceptible brightening in her
daughter's face.

Mrs. Mason, Caroline's mother, called across the hall: "How Lucy dis
evenin', Mis' Benson?"

"Oh, I think Lucy air right peart," Martha replied. "Come over an'
look at huh."

Mrs. Mason came, and the mother told her about the new faith doctor
and his wonderful powers.

"Why, Mis' Mason," she said, "'pears like I could see de change in de
child de minute she swallowed dat medicine."

Her neighbor listened in silence, but when she went back to her own
room it