"Yes. You said that we came here to _work out_ our salvation with fear and trembling. Listen! You said, '_Immortality is an achievement!_ It is not a favor, not a gift, not a selection, not a chance; it is something we must work for--something we must win. _Immortality is an achievement!_' Are these words true?" "They are faithful and true words. Come home with me and we will talk them over." Thus out of the old paths and into the brighter new ones this great heart led his people. By day or night he knew no weariness in well-doing. His loving kindness was a constant over-flowing of self on others--a heavenly thing, springing from the soul just at that point where the divine image is nearest and clearest. Do you ask if he is preaching to-day? It is not impossible. Yet my feeling is that by the full employment of a holy life he arrived some years ago at maturity for death. Such a man could not linger too long on the Border Land. Christ himself would speak the _compelle intrare_, "Enter! Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" THE END End of Project Gutenberg's Playing With Fire, by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr