and humility call upon God will open to reconduct you into the ordinary walk of mankind, far from these fearful rocks upon which you must inevitably founder."
"You understand me not, I tell you once more" cried the youth, "although I quite understand your meaning. You do not trust the token that I have given you. Yet," added he smiling, "you are not quite so hardened just now, better thoughts steal over your soul, though also from the region of unbelief."
"And what is it?" asked they father, "you will otherwise make me believe that you are able to penetrate into all the hidden depths of the heart."
"You were thinking just now," said Edmond:—
"Let him take his course, the evil must now have reached its height, perhaps God wills that he should find at length by this more than wonderful means, his salvation, and that he may learn later to cool by reason and true christian humility, the
