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 "And if God knows everything, we don't have to tell Him a lot of things, do we?"

"Why, no."

"And God is Good?"

"Yes." She had explained that to me.

"Well then, thinking and talking good thoughts, must be prayer, because it is putting us right into touch with Him; and so I should think that was the very best kind of a prayer-meeting."

"Oh-h-h!" I said. I had just found something.

"What is it?" asked Bess.

"Why then, to 'pray without ceasing,' is just to think really right thoughts all the time."

Bess nodded. "Of course," she said.

"And there I always thought that phrase was an exaggeration and an impossibility, for I couldn't see how any one could attend to business and do it. This is different. It would be a mighty good thing for one's business."

We walked on for a while and I thought it over. By and by I said,—"Bess, do you suppose that all of those people are sincere?"

Bess smiled. "Are you sincere in believing that two and two are four?"

"Of course," I said, "I couldn't help believ-