DOROTHY PAGE.



   Dorothy had written her parents about her new-
 found joy, but they understood it not. They thought
 that it was some girlish emotion that her home life
 would quickly dissipate.
   The news of 'her conversion came to Sterling as a
burst of sunlight. In speaking of it to his mother he
said:
   "Of one thing I am sure, and that is that she will
make a glorious Christian. What a light she will be in
her home. And, mother, 'how fine to have her in my
church I"
   Dorothy had shortened her visit that she might
hurry home and tell her loved ones of the change in
her life. She could not explain the change, but hie
knew that for her old things had passed away and all
things had become new.
  She was anxious to tell her parents the simple story
of Christ's love and sacrifice for sinners. She recited
it almost immediately after her return, but their eyes
seemed holden that they could not see. Possibly they
did not want to see. At any rate, Dorothy received
her first biting disappointment in the reception that
her parents gave to her report about her new-found
Savior.
  With Mr. Sterling it was different, and in him she
found a sympathetic listener to her story. Not that
sihe impulsively bared her secrets to him; he was eager
to know it all, and his keen interest in contrast to the
utter lack of responsiveness on the part of the parents
encouraged her to confide in him, and to Dorothy,



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