STUMBLING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
God notes and approves our best longings and strivings, even tho to our own consciousness we ever fall short of attaining. A loving mother, holding out her hand invitingly to her babe just beginning to toddle, welcomes the little one's effort to respond, notwithstanding its failures in its repeated trials. It is her child's longing to come to her that gladdens the mother's heart. Only a failure to respond to the welcoming hand would be unlike a true child. God has ever more than a mother's love. His welcome to the little one who stumbles on the way to Him is ever surer than to one who stands firm, or moves erect, in another direction. God judges our actions by what we are striving to do, rather than by our obvious failures, such as others can perceive.—Sunday-school Times.