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of heart which seemed to possess her Cousin
Abbie.
" Was she a fellow-pilgrim after all?" she
queried. If so, what caused the difference between Abbie and herself It was but a few hours
since she first beheld her cousin; and yet she
distinctly felt the difference between them in
that matter.
"We are as unlike," thought
Ester, turning restlessly on her pillow. " Well,
as unlike as two people can be."
What would Abbie say could she know that
it was actually months since Ester had read as
much connectedly in her Bible as she had heard
read that evening? Yes, Ester had gone backward, even as far as that! Farther! What would
Abbie say to the fact that there were many,
many prayerless days in her life? Not very
many, perhaps, in which she had not used a form
of prayer; but their names were legion in which
she had risen from her knees unhelped and unrefreshed; in which she knew that she had not
prayed a single one of the sentences which she
had been repeating. And just at this point she
was stunned with a sudden thought-a thought
which too often escapes us all. She would not
for the world, it seemed to her, have made
known to Abbie just how matters stood with
her; and yet, and yet-Christ knew it all. She