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me, papa, how is it we can love any person when we have not seen them?" "Ask yourself," he replied; "who gave you your beaver hat?" "Grandpapa." "Do you love him?" "Yes." "Have you seen him?" "No." "Yet you love him; why do you love him?" "Because I have heard you say such a number of pretty things about him." "Did you believe what I said of him was true?" "Yes, to be sure I did." Then you love him by faith, do you not?" "Yes."
So, then, "whom having not seen we love, and though now we see him not, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeakable
