“I love to hear the story

Which angel voices tell,

How once the King of Glory

Came down on earth to dwell.

I am both weak and sinful,

But this I surely know,

The Lord came down to save me,

Because He loved me so.”

“Very pretty indeed, Joyce,” observed Mrs. Morton, rather absently, when the child had finished. But Joyce looked up in her face wistfully.

“Do you ever say hymns, mother dear?”