some is,' the Bible says; so I cannot allow you to absent yourself from
the services of the sanctuary when you are able to attend.

"As I have told you before, I must obey the directions I find in God's
Word, and, as far as lies in my power, see that my children obey them
too."

"I'd rather take a whipping than go to-morrow," she muttered, half under
her breath.

"I hope you are not going to be so naughty that you will have to do
both," he said very gravely. "You have been a very good girl to-day, and
I want you to end it as such."

"I mean to, papa; I'd be ashamed to be naughty after all you have done
for me, and given me to-day: and I mean to be pleasant about going to
church to-morrow; though it'll be ever so hard, and I'm sure you
wouldn't want to go if you were me."

"If you were I," he corrected. "No: if I were you, I suppose I should
feel just as you do; but the question is not what we want to do, but
what God bids us do.

"Jesus said, 'If ye love me, keep my commandments.' 'He that hath my
commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.'

"It is the dearest wish of my heart to see my children his followers,
showing their love to him by an earnest endeavor to keep all his
commandments."