"Papa, do you know, when you came in, you looked as if you expected to find what we have all wished for so long."
"I did and—I didn't," he replied, with a faint smile. "When I had finished what Mrs. Minturn asked me to do, and started to leave the room, I saw your crutches standing in the corner where I had put them after you were seated.
"While I stood blankly staring and wondering, that blessed woman came to me with such a light on her face—it fairly shone with joy and love.
"'Dorrie has gone,'" she said. "'I saw her walk out with her mother.'
"Involuntarily I put out my hand to take the crutches,
"'No—leave them,' she said, 'she will never need them again, and you do not wish any reminders of error about you.' So I came away praying 'Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief.'"
CHAPTER XXV.
A MOMENTOUS ERRAND.
There were only three more sessions, but they were wonderful "sittings together," for every member had been deeply impressed by the signal manifestation of God's power in their midst, in connection with Dorothy; and felt that the place whereon they stood was indeed "holy ground."
Then the class was dismissed with solemn, but loving, injunctions to go forth to "cheer the faint, uplift the fallen, and heal the sick."