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"Co forth the powerful voice It fell upon the red-haired girl and soothed her

Tess knew that Teola would be expecting her, and that Frederick would turn his face ahen she presented the child for baptisathered into the downcast eyes, for Tessibel's faith had grown since she knew that Myra's prayers had been answered Had she not seen the girl clasped in the arms of the fisherman, who had once said that he hated her? Had she not seen the smile upon the dead lips which dripped with lake water? Tessibel had never before been so confident in prayer, and upon this beautiful Sundayunder the church , she believed that God would give her back the student--soht of the pain that would rest in the proud dark eyes of the boy when he saw her; but she smiled, because she knew that God lived, heard and answered the prayers of the heavy-laden

An anthe out the love of Christ, chanting His crucifixion and death for a dying world

"Co, and "Co to take the little hu, with its burden of sickness and death, to Doht petition the Holy Ghost to take away its sin

"Co the choir Then silence Tess leaned nearer theDominie Graves read out the nae rolled rapidly to the church door, and Deacon Hall, accompanied by his wife, stepped to the paveing fro in to receive a blessing at the altar of God Tess peered down upon the little Dan, and pulled the coarse dress closer about his chin A violent wish born of the love she had for him came into her heart Oh, that she had one bit of lace, to make his skin look less blue and the mouth less drawn! The wide eyes were still fixed upon her, i Once only had she seen the lids fall slowly doard, to rise again over the unseeing eyes

"He knows he air a-goin' to church," she ood Mebbe the spirit of his pappy air here"