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 of their real being; but is the darkness and desolation of evil thinking.

"God created nothing about man but what is good. We are really His offspring—His children,—and it is not hard to love what is good. I do not love the evil that people do; but I love them, and Jesus loved them and said 'Come unto me'.

"This is the way to love the real man, all men, the only man that God ever made. Can you understand this, dear?"

The little one was silent for a time, her soft brows wrinkled in effort to grasp the idea, then:

"Is it the way that I love Ronald when he soils his hands and his clothes?" she asked. "I don't like to feel his hands when they are dirty, and I wish that they were clean; but I love Ronald all the