[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1025":3},"OCTOBER 25\r\nHitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask and ye shall receive, that you joy may be full (John 16.24).\r\nDuring the Civil War, a man had an only son who enlisted in\r\nthe armies of the Union. The father was a banker and, although he consented to his son's going, it seemed as if it would break his\r\n\r\nheart to let him go.\r\nHe became deeply interested In the soldier boys, and whenever he saw a uniform, his heart went out as he thought of his own dear\r\nboy. He spent his time, neglected his business, gave his money to\r\ncaring for the soldiers who came home invalid. His friends    remonstrated with him, saying he had no right to neglect his\r\nbusiness and spend so much thought upon the soldiers, so he fully decided to give it all up.\r\nAfter he had come to this decision, there stepped into his bank one day a private soldier in a faded, worn uniform, who showed in his\r\nface and hands the marks of the hospital.\r\nThe poor fellow was fumbling in his pocket to get something or\r\nother, when the banker saw him and, perceiving his purpose, said to him:\r\n\"My dear fellow, I cannot do anything for you today. I am extremely busy. You will have to go to your headquarters; the officers there\r\nwill look after you.\"\r\nStill the poor convalescent stood not seeming to fully understand what was said to him. Still he fumbled in his pockets and, by and by, drew out a scrap of dirty paper, on which there were a few\r\nfines written with a pencil, and laid this soiled sheet before the banker. On it he found these words:\r\n\"Dear Father This Is one of my comrades who was wounded In the last\r\nfight and has been in the hospital. Please receive him as myself.-Charlie.\"\r\nIn a moment all the resolutions of indifference which this man\r\nmade, flew away. He took the boy to his palatial home, put him In Charlie's room, gave him Charlie's seat at the table, kept him\r\nuntil food and rest and love had brought him back to health, and then sent him back again to imperil his life for the flag.\r\n--Selected.\r\n\"Now shalt thou SEE what I will do\" (Exod. 6: 1).",1783499793977]