CHAP. VI.—ABRAHAM’S SACRIFICE.

HEN Mrs. Baynes came home on Saturday,
she was a good deal surprised at the
change in Stephen, and took an opportunity
of asking Johnnie what was the matter; but
she could hear nothing, and the boy himself
seemed resolved not to speak.

He quietly went back to the Sunday school
when Sunday morning came, and when there -
was time in the afternoon he seemed glad to
hear some more about the Bible pictures, but
he was strangely silent all the time.

“There was once,” said Mrs. Baynes, “a
good man, whose name was Abraham, and
the Lord God called him to leave the country
in which he was living, and where all his
friends were, and go into another land which
was quite strange tohim. Abraham was very
full of faith—that is, he knew so well that
God knew best, and would love him and take
care of him, that he trusted in God altogether,