"Who is God? I never seed him."
"No, but He sees you."
"Whar is He?" and she looked fearfully around the room, in which the scanty fire threw a feeble glare.
"Everywhere. He is everywhere," I answered.
"Is He in dis room?" she asked in terror, and drew near me.
"Yes, He is here."
"Oh lor! He may tell Masser on me."
This ignorance may, to the careless reader, seem laughable; but, to me, it was most horrible, and I could not repress my tears. Here was the force of education. Master was to her the strongest thing or person in existence. Of course she could not understand a higher power than that which had governed her life. There are hundreds as ignorant; but no missionaries come to enlighten them!
"Oh, don't speak that way; you know God made you."