"Didst thou not know?" answered his Deliverer with a radiant smile, "no one else is 'Mighty to save.'" * * * * * When Agnes ceased the relation of her dream, she turned over the leaves of her Bible which lay on her knee, her brothers and sisters waiting to see if there were any more of the story. At last she looked up, and said earnestly, "You all like allegories, but they can only teach one side of a truth at once, and the Lord Jesus has done so much more than anything I can say for us. I have not told you half that Red page means, but you can seek it out for yourselves, dears. Think of all the love which brought Him down to redeem us, and what it cost Him, and let the Red page of the 'Wordless Book' impress this upon your hearts, never to be forgotten, 'Without shedding of blood is no remission;' 'God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet _sinners_. Christ died for us.'" [Illustration] [Illustration] CHAPTER V. _NEW ROBES: AN ALLEGORY._ "Have you another dream to tell us?" asked Minnie on the following Sunday. "It is the end of the same dream, but it has a different page in the 'Wordless Book' as its suggestion," answered Agnes. "Yes, the White page," said John. White--Righteousness. Then the boys passed out towards the Light, leaning on Him who had delivered them. I followed silently, still allowed to watch and listen. "Dost Thou say that Thou wilt present us to the King?" asked Alwin hesitatingly. Their Deliverer assented; for Edred immediately answered, "We are not fit to appear before Him! Thy power has indeed saved us from the destruction we merited; but we are so soiled and filthy from contact with the mire in this awful Cavern, that we could not appear before any one, least of all before the Great King." He spoke eagerly and half proudly. "Dost thou not remember what I told thee? That My Blood, which has been shed for thee, with which thou hast been covered, will work--nay, has already worked, marvels; and when the Light shines upon thee, thou wilt see. Fear nothing, only believe what I tell thee." They were silent after this, and were quickly approaching the end of the darkness. Then the boys could look upon their Deliverer, and could see the terrible wounds that He had sustained in His conflict with the foul fiend. And when they looked they wept--wept for sorrow that He should so have suffered for them--wept for joy that they were safe from the dreadful destruction. They thought not of themselves; but when I could unfasten my eyes from the lovely face of the Deliverer, I was amazed to find that the boys were no longer arrayed in their former clothes, for in that mysterious passage from Darkness to Light all these had been changed, and they were now clad in a spotless robe of pure white. By-and-by they perceived it themselves, or rather their Guide pointed it out to them.