At this moment the child remembered these words, and she sobbed aloud,
"Oh, you dear God in heaven! help me also, I am so unhappy, and my
mother cannot hear me when I call!"
And when she had prayed thus several times over, she felt calmer. It
comforted her poor little heart; for now she felt that God was really
there in heaven, and could help her, and that she was no longer alone.
And presently she recalled her mother's words,--almost the very last
that she spoke: "My child, when you cannot see your way clearly before
you, and every thing seems strange and difficult"--And now it was so;
and how little she thought that it ever would be so, when her mother was
talking to her. Her mother told her to remember the words of the hymn,--
"Your road He'll also find,
Nor let your footsteps stray."
Now Wiseli first rightly understood these words, and felt their full
meaning. Before she had repeated them mechanically, for not until now
did she need them. But it was just her present case. Was not she full of
perplexity? and what could she possibly have in her cousin Gotti's house
but fear and trouble? And so she repeated, again and again,--
"Your road He'll also find,
Nor let your footsteps stray."
The child had found her way to her heavenly Father, and knew that he was
sure to help her; and she felt comforted.
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