Jack meant by saying, " man's 
destiny was to be not dfosatisfied, but always 
2/;zsatisfied ;" but now I begin to catch a 
glimmer of his meaning. The more we 
think of Christ, the more we see in self 
to condemn. The " perfect life of the sin 
less man," we reach but such a little way 



SUMMER DRIFT-WOOD. QEJ 

up toward it, how can we help being unsat 
isfied ? And yet, it seems to me, as the days 
of Christian life the days of believing are 
numbered by months and years, as though 
one would forget all about being dissatisfied 
unsatisfied ; pass way beyond, and lose 
the remembrance of the words in the 
thought of that waking time, when we 
"shall be satisfied," for we shall "see Him 
as He is." I  if there wasn't some 
 of this thought in Jack's , when 
he copied for me the little verse : 

" Thro' Life and Death, thro'  and thro' sinning, 
Christ shall suffice me, for He hath sufficed. 

Christ is the end, for Christ is the beginning ; 
Christ the beginning, for the end is Christ." 




XIII. 

I AM so glad papa brought me here. I 
think it is the dearest old homestead