"I take the old game, 'I love my love with an A,' and turn it into a help to bring me nearer my God!"
"I can't see how," said Robbie.
"I say to myself, when I am weary or wakeful, 'I adore my God with an A, because He is "Abundantly able to save."'"
"'I adore my God with a B, because He says, "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world."'"
"Oh, like 'capping verses,'" said Robbie, smiling again.
"Something like; but my way gives more scope. I never get tired of it. If I can't think of a verse beginning with C, for instance, I say, 'I adore my God with a C, because He has said, "I will not leave you Comfortless,"' and so to the end of the alphabet."
"There aren't many Z's, I should think?"
"Enough to give me a feast. 'Zacchaeus, come down, for to-day I must abide at thy house,' or 'I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord.' There, Robbie!"
"And what do you do for X?"
"Ah! Yes; I use the verses where there are 'Excepts,' and call them—like this—'I will not let Thee go 'Xcept Thou bless me.'"