As soon as she reached the bedside, he sprang up, and held her in a close embrace, both arms round her neck. "Auntie, Auntie, isn’t it beautiful? I am free! Error has quite gone. I know Cousin Alicia has had the telegrams now. You can rub your hand down my back. It does not hurt me now, nor the bruises." "Carol, dear, I cannot understand it. It seems so wonderful. I am afraid you ought not to be sitting up like this." "Oh, Auntie, there is nothing to be afraid about. Error cast out cannot come back again. I am so hungry. I do want to get up to breakfast." "Darling, you must lie still until Dr. Burton has seen you. I could not consent for you to get up yet. It does indeed seem beautiful for you to be so much better, I cannot realize it, and I cannot understand, Carol, why Miss Desmond’s prayers for you should be so quickly answered, when I am sure I love you just as dearly. I prayed for you, and Uncle Raymond prayed, yet--yet I cannot feel that our prayers helped you." She had tenderly laid him back upon the pillow. She could not get rid of the fear that it was not good for him to be using his back. He was silent a few minutes, the old thoughtful expression on his face which she knew so well. Then he said: "Auntie, the sun was shining this morning long before Nurse drew aside the curtains, and let the light into my room. Suppose while the curtain was drawn I had kept saying, ’Please, dear sun, do shine into my room, and send the darkness away.’ It would have had no effect. It would have been foolish, wouldn’t it? Well, Auntie, the light of Truth, like the sunlight is everywhere, but we can shut it out of our consciousness by a curtain of false beliefs. Cousin Alicia has not asked God to make me better. She has just known that God’s child is always perfect. As Nurse drew aside the curtain to let in the sunlight, she has drawn aside the curtain of false beliefs that were around me, and then Truth came and healed me. Jesus said ’the Truth shall make you free.’ It is just as true, Auntie, as if he had said, ’When light appears, darkness disappears.’ Wherever Truth appears, error shall flee away, because it is not from God. It is the opposite of God’s law. I love that beautiful verse of the hymn more than I have ever loved it, because I can say again: ’The healing of the seamless dress Is by our beds of pain.’ Christ is Truth, and Truth is the Christ. I was asleep when he came to me. But just as Jesus spoke to the angry waves the Christ has commanded error, ’Peace, be still.’ Oh, Auntie! cannot you believe I am quite well? ’I am the Father’s perfect child. I have the gift from God, dominion over all.’" She was longing to realize that it was as the boy said, and she had nothing to fear. Yet it was difficult.