their own comfort. They are ready enough then to call in the aid of higher
laws, which, so far from being contradictory, overrule the lower to get
things into something like habitable, endurable condition. It may be a law
of nature; but what has the Law of the Spirit of Life to _propound anent_
it? as the Scotch lawyers would say."

A little pause followed, during which I hope some of us were thinking. That
Wynnie, at least, was, her next question made evident.

"What you say about a law of nature and a law of the Spirit makes me think
again how that walking on the water has always been a puzzle to me."

"It could hardly be other, seeing that we cannot possibly understand it," I
answered.

"But I find it so hard to believe. Can't you say something, papa, to help
me to believe it?"

"I think if you admit what goes before, you will find there is nothing
against reason in the story."

"Tell me, please, what you mean."

"If all things were made by Jesus, the Word of God, would it be reasonable
that the water that he had created should be able to drown him?"

"It might drown his body."

"It would if he had not the power over it still, to prevent it from laying
hold of him. But just think for a moment. God is a Spirit. Spirit is