Suppose a man had never in his life asked God for anything, or thanked
God for anything, would his opinion as to what David meant in one of his
worshipping psalms be worth much? The whole thing would be beyond him. If
you have never known what it is to have care of any kind upon you, you
cannot understand what our Lord means when he tells us to take no thought
for the morrow."

"But indeed, papa, I am very full of care sometimes, though not perhaps
about to-morrow precisely. But that does not matter, does it?"

"Certainly not. Tell me what you are full of care about, my child, and
perhaps I can help you."

"You often say, papa, that half the misery in this world comes from
idleness, and that you do not believe that in a world where God is at work
every day, Sundays not excepted, it could have been intended that women any
more than men should have nothing to do. Now what am I to do? What have I
been sent into the world for? I don't see it; and I feel very useless and
wrong sometimes."

"I do not think there is very much to complain of you in that respect,
Connie. You, and your sister as well, help me very much in my parish. You
take much off your mother's hands too. And you do a good deal for the poor.
You teach your younger brothers and sister, and meantime you are learning
yourselves."

"Yes, but that's not work."

"It is work. And it is the work that is given you to do at present. And you
would do it much better if you were to look at it in that light. Not that I