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 "Do you think that you would love God if He had done to you what He has to me?—if He had made you blind so that all the world was black to you?"

"Do you think God did that?"

"Why, yes," wonderingly. "They all said that God did it for my good, and that I must love Him and praise Him, for: 'whom He loveth He chasteneth'; but it is very, very hard, and I am not sure that I love Him at all."

The lady took the little one's face between her two hands, looking straight into the sightless eyes:

"Listen, dearie; God is all that is good and loving, and He does not want you, or any one, to be unhappy. He would not take