"I don't know much about God. I hain't never learnt."
"Tell Susy what you know, Childie," and then Miss Bertha left them together.
For a few moments Christina sat silent, wondering what she did know, and then she said:
"God loves us, Susy, you and me, and He asked Jesus Christ to come down from Heaven and die for us, so that we could go there when we die. He was punished for us."
"I don't see!"
Susy spoke determinedly.
"No one will punish me, I know," she added a little defiantly.
"Oh, but we're so awfully naughty," said Christina. "We really aren't fit for Heaven, and God hates sin, Miss Bertha has told me that. Don't you know that hymn:
"And so He died!—and this is why
He came to be a man and die:
The Bible says He came from heaven
That we might have our sins forgiven."
"I like that; say some more."