"But," said Drew, "is not God pleased that a man should pour out his soul to him?" "Yes, doubtless; but what would you think of a child who said, 'I am very useful to my father, for when I ask him for anything, or tell him I love him, it gives him—oh, such pleasure!'?" "I should say he was an unendurable prig. Better he had to be whipped for stealing!" said the curate. "There would be more hope of his future," returned Polwarth. "—Is the child," he continued, "who sits by his father's knee and looks up into his father's face, SERVING that father, because the heart of the father delights to
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