shall not be in haste.' Your prayers have not been in vain. Your father will find his perfect guidance, but it will not be hastened through any forcing on your part! If he doesn't accept certain ideas you want to give him, don't force them on him. Follow your own true inner direction about this. If you find opportunity, a time when he is receptive, you might give him a strong healing thought. But if this opportunity is not presented, hold your peace and let your patience have its perfect work. Then you will see the reward of this patience in his life and in yours as Nell."

Throughout the months that followed the sincere young Truth student held fast to this advice, turning again and again to the thought and practice of patience—patience with herself, patience with her loved one, and patience concerning the outcome she desired to see manifested. Occasionally she found opportunity to offer her father a statement of healing and to encourage him in the application of faith, but most of the time she found that the simplest and most harmonious way of giving was within her own silent prayers.

She applied herself, with the continued guidance

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