meaning which he had tried to put into her mind, because her little mind
could not do otherwise, and she read the words not 'God is nowhere,' but
'God is now here.'"

And she was right. She was wiser than her gray-haired grandfather. For
God is now here. He is everywhere. And whenever even the smallest child
speaks to Him in the simplest prayer He hears the child's voice. God is
now here. That is a good motto for us to take with us to school, to keep
us honest; to play, to keep us sweet; to our homes, to keep us
unselfish.




DAVID LIVINGSTONE'S FAITH


No doubt you have all heard of David Livingstone, the great missionary
to Africa. I wish to tell you a story of his faith in Christ.

He was trying to cross one of the rivers of Africa one day with his
little company of men, when the savages in that locality tried to
prevent him. They gathered in large numbers with their spears and
poisoned arrows and war-clubs, and blocked his way to the river.
Livingstone and his little company were no match for these hostile
warriors, and it looked as if he and his men would be killed.

Then he thought of a scheme of waiting till nightfall and of crossing
over under cover of the darkness. But later that seemed to him a
cowardly thing to do, and he tells us how the verse in the Bible came