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“Yes, yes, that is just what I wanted to hear,” said the grandmother, and the deep expression of trouble passed from her face. Heidi looked at her thoughtfully for a minute or two and then said, “Healing means that which cures everything and makes everybody well, doesn’t it, grandmother?”

“Yes, that is it,” replied the old woman with a nod of assent, "and we may be sure everything will come to pass according to God’s good purpose. Read the verse again, that we may remember it well and not forget it again.”

And Heidi read the words over two or three times, for she also found pleasure in this assurance of all things being arranged for the best.

When the evening came, Heidi returned home up the mountain. The stars came out overhead one by one, so bright and sparkling that each seemed to send a fresh ray of joy into her heart; she was obliged to pause continually to look up, and as the whole sky at last grew spangled with them she spoke aloud, “Yes, I understand now why we feel so happy, and are not afraid about anything, because God knows what is good and beautiful for us.” And the stars with their glistening eyes continued to nod to her till she reached home, where she found her grandfather also standing and looking up at them, for they had seldom been more glorious than they were this night.

Not only were the nights of this month of May so clear and