THE GOOD PHYSICIAN. 131

‘‘T don’t know, papa; I would try.”

“Would you not be willing, my daughter,
to suffer some more bodily pain to get rid of
such an evil as vanity? Remember, you haye
seen and felt that it leads the heart away
from God, and even debases it by falsehood to
man.”

“Oh, yes, papa, I would bear a great deal
more pain! I would bear anything to get quite
rid of it.”

“You would bear anything, Lucy? Suppose
our Father were to see that the most certain
way to overcome this evil was by touching what
you have always valued so much—your personal
appearance ; that he was to take away your good
looks, and give you a very plain, or even a dis-
agreeable face; or that he was to make you a
cripple, so that you could not walk without
crutches ; could you bear these things ?”’

“They would be very hard, papa,” said Lucy,
doubtingly.

“Worse, Lucy, than an evil in your heart,
which would make you, in time, so false that
your own father could not trust you ?”

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