neither by his wife nor by his three oldest children, neither in the church nor by the grave. But the youngest child, a boy of five years old, who followed the bier along with the rest, wept bitterly. I asked him afterwards, why he had wept so bitterly at his father's grave? The child answered me, "I was so troubled because father didn't take me with him to the Lord Jesus; I had begged him so hard to take me." "My child," said I, "your father could not take you along with him; only the Saviour could do that; you ought to have asked _Him_." "Shall I ask Him now then?" he questioned. "No, my child. See--when the Saviour wants you, He will call you Himself. But if He chooses that you shall grow to be a man first, then you must help your mother and let her live with you. Will you?" He said, "I would like to go to Jesus; and I would like to be big too, so that mother can live with me." "Well, then, say to the Lord Jesus that He shall choose." "That is what I will do," said the boy; and was quite contented and pleased. "'The faithful Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ give us all a happy end. Amen.'" There was the usual pause after Meredith had done reading. Flora, however, could not keep back long her expression of opinion. "I protest!" she said. "Those people were utterly fanatical! Mr. Murray, isn't it true?" "O Uncle Eden, do you think so?" cried Maggie. "I think it is beautiful." "Maggie is too young to understand," remarked Esther. "Those people were very unnatural, I think." "How?" said Meredith. "Yes, how?" Mr. Murray echoed. "I should like to hear the arguments on both sides." "A man who is dying, and has a wife and four children," said Flora solemnly, "has no _right_ to give his last six groschen away. I don't know how much a groschen is, but that don't make any difference. He has no right to to do it!" "You emphasise, 'a man who is dying,'" said Meredith. "Would the case be different if he were a man living and going to live?" "Why, of course." "How?" "He would work then, and earn more. How stupid to ask, Meredith!" "But an accident might happen to him; or he might fail to get work; or he might miss his pay." "Yes, of course. I think it would be fanatical even then. But when he was dying, and couldn't do anything!"---- "But if in any case he must trust for a day--what does it signify? God can send help in a day." "I should not think He would, when people throw away wantonly what they have got already." "What is given to Jesus isn't thrown away," said Maggie. "And He always pays it back with interest," said Mr. Murray. "And what is entrusted to Him is never neglected. I think that old German peasant was very safe in his proceeding." "But so unnatural!" cried Esther. "Not to be sorry to leave his wife and children!" "I have no doubt he was very sorry to leave them. The only thing is, he was more glad to go to Jesus." "I cannot understand that."