Acting on a sudden impulse, he rose and went into the sleeping room to get his Bible. The child's face took on an expression of disappointment as she heard his words. Her brow knotted, and a troubled look came into her brown eyes. Josè returned with his Bible and seated himself again at the table. Opening the book, his eyes fell upon a verse of Mark's Gospel. He stopped to read it; and then read it again. Suddenly he looked up at the waiting girl. "What is it, Padre? What does it say?" He hesitated. He read the verse again; then he scanned the child closely, as if he would read a mystery hidden within her bodily presence. Abruptly he turned to the book and read aloud: "'Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.'" The girl drew a long breath, almost a sigh, as if a weight had been removed from her mind. "Did Jesus say that?" she asked in glad, eager tones. "Yes--at least it is so reported here," he answered absently. "Well--_he_ knew, didn't he?" "Knew what, child?" "Why, Padre, he told the people to know--just _know_--that they already had everything--that God had given them everything good--and that if they would _know_ it, they would see it." Externalization of thought? Yes; or rather, the externalization of truth. Josè fell into abstraction, his eyes glued to the page. There it stood--the words almost shouted it at him! And there it had stood for nearly two thousand years, while priest and prelate, scribe and commentator had gone over it again and again through the ages, without even guessing its true meaning--without even the remotest idea of the infinite riches it held for mankind! He turned reflectively to Matthew; and then to John. He remembered the passages well--in the past he had spent hours of mortal agony poring over them and wondering bitterly why God had failed to keep the promises they contain. "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." All things--when ye ask _believing_! But that Greek word surely held vastly more than the translators have drawn from it. Nay, not believing only, but _understanding_ the allness of God as good, and the consequent nothingness of evil, all that seems to oppose Him! How could the translators have so completely missed the mark! And Carmen--had never seen a Bible until he came into her life; yet she knew, knew instinctively, that a good God who was "everywhere" could not possibly withhold anything good from His children. It was the simplest kind of logic.