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 "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed."

Hernando read on to the last verse and then Granny's feeble voice joined his: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."

He closed and replaced the Bible on the table and rose to say good-night, when the old lady expressed a wish to speak with him alone and Eletheer vanished into the hall. "Hernando," said Granny, when he had closed the door and was again seated by the bed, "my days are numbered. Nearly a score more than man's allotted time has been granted me and now I am ready to go. I have never discussed doctrinal questions with you, but blood tells and any one in whose veins flows the good old blood of the Genungs cannot be without the fold. My boy, I am an old woman, let me assure you that God is an ever present friend in time of need, He