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FAITH.
ber as long as you live what faith is. You threw your beads away when I bade you, because you had faith in me that I never advised you but for your good. Put the same confidence in God, believe. everything he says in his word, whether you understand it or not, have faith in Him that he means your good."
This was faith in man, in her own dear father, and she might have had it even if she had been a heathen child. It was not the faith required in the Bible, because it was not faith in God. I will try to make this plainer still, by relating the following beautiful story:
