On the following Sunday evening Carol started at the usual time for Mr. Higgs’ cottage, carrying with him the little, much-valued book and with it the current _Quarterly_ which Miss Desmond had also sent him. His surprise was great, on arriving at the cottage, to find Mrs. Burton and Eloise there. They knew the prohibition was removed, and Carol was free to read and study _Science and Health_. "We thought you would come, Carol," Eloise exclaimed. "We wanted to hear you read the Lesson-Sermon. It will be quite a little service, won’t it?" "Yes, dear Carol; we thought we should like to join you this evening," Mrs. Burton said. "We are only the ’two or three gathered together,’ but we are all of one mind. So it will be a little service, as Eloise says." Presently Mr. Higgs’ daughter and his little grand-daughter came in. It was arranged for Mrs. Burton to read the Bible verses, and for Carol to read the quotations from _Science and Health_. At the close of the Lesson-Sermon Carol and Eloise sang together, from the Christian Science Hymnal, the hymn which both knew and loved,-- "Shepherd, show me how to go." The beauty of the words, and the young voices blending in perfect harmony, brought tears of emotion to the old man’s eyes. "Aye, ma’am," he said to Mrs. Burton afterwards, "who but the Shepherd himself, is leading us into those green pastures where the fetters that bound us are loosed? There’s a many things I can’t pretend to understand, and the old beliefs grip hard, but I just hold on, and know it must be the Truth which the Master promised should make us free. It’s the tree that is known by its fruits. I’m sorry Rector’s so set up against it. But there, it was the priests and scribes who persecuted the Master himself. Seems to me it would not be the Truth if the world received it gladly." "I believe you are right in thinking that, Mr. Higgs. In whatever period of the world’s history Truth has been recognized, and demonstrated, its adherents were always persecuted and stoned. Jesus reminded his persecutors that they stoned the prophets which were before him."