to calm herself with Truth, repeating statements about the ailness of good and the nothingness of evil in every variety of declaration that came to her.

Presently her faithfulness was rewarded. She remembered what her teacher had said as to the power of Mind to go forth and heal the plants, and she spoke aloud:

“God can protect my grove! The presence of God is there, and even now folds it round about and keeps it from every harmful thing.” She remembered the passage “There shall no evil befall thee”; she recited the 91st Psalm; she remembered the words spoken to Job beginning, “He will deliver thee in six troubles,” including “Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction,” and ending, “The beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee,” and she was filled with trust and a mighty consciousness of power. An impression came to her of her grove being covered over as with a great canvas, and she lay down upon her pillow and slept like a child until morning.

The black frost came, and every orange grove that had not been smudged came woefully under the blight, every grove but that of Mrs. R --- , in which not one orange was touched.

The crop of her scoffing and skeptical neighbor was a total loss.

It was a nine-day wonder, and many were the congratulations. She was young in Truth and told