God's ways are wonderful, and His thoughts past finding out. To our finite minds, Mr. Lue seemed needed here. The Lord had put him in a place where he had many opportunities for service, and those opportunities were not left unheeded or misused. "Oh, that he might be spared to us!" that was the cry in the beginning, but already we began to see the purpose of God in taking His servant away, as so much was accomplished through his death. God, our God, does not make any mistakes. He buries His servants but carries on His work. May it be said at the end of the life of each one of us, as I think it might truly be written over Mr. Lue's service--"He has done what he could!" CHAPTER XXIII ANOTHER JEWEL WON FOR CHRIST "Old Grandfather, you are early this morning at your worship." Thus Mrs. Lue addressed an old man who was earnestly worshipping at a shrine she was passing. Her heart went out in compassion for the old man, who was nearing the end of life's journey without God and without hope. So she addressed him kindly, hoping she would be able to point him to Christ. The old man was hard of hearing. After having finished his worship, he slowly turned round and looked at her, and again she repeated her greeting. "You are early at your worship, old Grandfather. You are very earnest about it." "Well may I be in earnest," he replied, "for herein my only hope lies. I am an old man, without kith or kin, without anybody to care for my soul when I die." "But you are wasting your money on worshipping these false gods, and you are spending your energy in vain. I know of a better way." "A better way! What might that be? I never heard of any better way. And as I have no sons or grandsons, I must look out for myself. I do not need my money. I have buried my wife and my children. Now I have been preparing for my own burial. For twelve years my grave has been made and is well lined with bricks. My coffin is in my house waiting for me. I have prepared many boxes full of paper clothes, and many thousand paper dollars to be burned for me when I am gone, for I do not want to go hungry and naked into the next world." [Illustration: Another jewel for Christ. "You are early at your worship, old grandfather. You are very earnest about it."] "But all these things will be of no use to you in the next world. The priests are deceiving you. You ought to come and worship God." "You say I ought to worship God. I do worship heaven. We all ought to worship heaven and earth." "I do not want you to worship heaven, but the Creator of heaven and earth. There is no God beside Him." "But I have not seen Him. I do not know Him." "No, you cannot see Him, for He is a Spirit; but He sees you, and He supplies your need every day by sending the rain and sunshine when needed. And better still, He will forgive your sins. He is the only one who can forgive sins."