Chapter 13 THE LENTEN FAST.

"This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer."-St. Mark ix. 29.

You remember the narrative from which I have taken this verse. Jesus, as we read, had just come down from the Mount of Transfiguration, and when He was come to the multitude, a certain man besought him saying, "Have mercy on my son, for he is lunatic and sore vexed, and I bro