'It comes to this,' said Pitt. 'If we are ready to obey the Bible, we shall use not only our money, but our tongues and ourselves to do the work which--you know--the Lord left to His disciples to do; make disciples of every creature. It will be our one business.' 'How do you mean, our one business?' 'That to which we make all others subservient.' 'Subservient! Yes,' said Miss Frere. 'Subservient in a way; but that does not mean that we should give up everything else for it.' Pitt was silent. 'My dear boy,' said his mother anxiously, 'it seems to me you are straining things quite beyond what is intended. We are not all meant to be clergymen, are we?' 'That is not the point, mamma. The point is, what work is given us?' 'That work you speak of is clergymen's work.' 'Mamma, what is the command?' 'But that does not mean everybody.' 'Where is the excepting clause?' 'But, my dear, what would become of Society?' 'We may leave that. We are talking of obeying the Bible. I have given you one instance. Now I will give you another. It is written over here,' and he turned a few leaves,--'it is another word of Christ to those whom He was teaching,--"If any man serve me, let him follow me." Now here is a plain command; but what is it to follow Christ?' 'To imitate him, I suppose,' said Miss Frere, to whom he looked. 'In what?' The young lady looked at him in silence, and then said, 'Why, we all know what it means when we say that such a person or such a thing is Christlike. Loving, charitable, kind'-- 'But to _follow_ Him,--that is something positive and active. Literal following a person is to go where he has gone, through all the paths and to all the places. In the spiritual following, which is intended here,--what is it? It is to do as He did, is it not? To have His aims and purposes and views in life, and to carry them out logically.' 'What do you mean by "logically"?' 'According to their due and proper sequences.' 'Well, what are you driving at?' asked Miss Frere a little worriedly. 'I will tell you. But I do not mean to drive _you_,' he said, again with a little laugh, as of self-recollection. 'Tell me to stop, if you are tired of the subject.' 'I am not in the least tired; how could you think it? It always delights me when people talk logically. I do not very often hear it. But I never heard of logical religion before.' 'True religion must be logical, must it not?' 'I thought religion was rather a matter of feeling.' 'I believe I used to think so.' 'And pray, what is it, then, Pitt?' his mother asked. 'Look here, mamma. "If any man will serve me, _let him follow me_."' 'Well, what do you understand by that, Pitt? You are going too fast for me. I thought the love of God was the whole of religion.' 'But here is the "following," mamma.' 'What sort of following?' 'That is what I am asking. As it cannot be in bodily, so it must be in mental footsteps.'