"He was young, and he killed a giant with a stone from his sling," said Ray, desperately; "that's all I know about him, and Mr. Carleton told me that." A general laugh followed. "Boys," said Miss Squire, earnestly, "if any of you had lived where you never heard who was president of the United States, would you want to be laughed at for your ignorance? Ray, unfortunately, has not been as favored as you, but he is braver than you all in one respect. He is not ashamed to let us know he is ignorant. In that very fact we have the assurance that if he has the opportunity he will not refuse to learn." Then noticing that Ray had neither lesson-leaf nor Bible, she handed her own Bible--an Oxford Teachers', with flexible covers--over to him, saying: "Here, Ray, take this, and use it until you get another." "Do you mean, take that home with me?" he asked, in astonishment. "Yes," she replied, "if you will agree to read some in it every day, and then come here Sundays, and ask me about what you do not understand." Ray hesitated for a moment, but those earnest eyes looked with perfect confidence into his own, as she added: "I know if you will only promise me that, not one of my boys here will more surely keep his word." Then Ray saw his mother on her bed of sickness, and heard her saying again: "I wish you would go every Sunday, Ray." And reaching out his hand, he put it into hers, saying, "I promise." With a ring of gladness almost triumphant in her tones, Miss Squire went on with the lesson, and Ray could scarcely believe the hour was up when the bell rang for closing, so interested had he become in David and the great work he had accomplished. He had asked Miss Squire but one question. When she spoke of David's faith in the Lord, he asked, quickly: "What is faith?" Her reply was characteristic, and happily illustrated her aptness to teach. "Ray," she asked, "what made Mr. Carleton willing, last Thursday, to put his hat back on his head, and let you throw another stone at it when, had you missed, you might have put out his sight, or endangered his life?" "He believed I could hit it," answered the lad, in some confusion at the thought that she knew of his audacious prank. "In other words, he had faith in your ability to do just as you said. And faith in God is believing that he is both able and willing to do what he has promised." As Miss Squire met her pastor at the six o'clock prayer and praise service, he asked: "Well, what is your impression of the new scholar?" "That he is worth saving," she quickly replied. "How much, with the Master's help, did you accomplish toward that end to-day?" he then inquired. "I got his promise to read the Bible and to come to Sunday-school regularly," she answered; and, hesitatingly, "I am almost sure I helped him to see what it is to have faith in God." "Well done," he said; "and I am praying with you that the divine seed of this day may have already taken root in his heart."