"Jesus said to Nicodemus," returned the youth, "'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of heaven.' Yusuf, this is what bothers me. I cannot understand this being born again." "Let us call it, then, just 'beginning to love and trust Jesus,'" said Yusuf quietly. Kedar almost started in his surprise. This aspect of the question had never appeared to him before. For a long time he sat, deep in thought, and Yusuf did not break in upon his meditations. "Is that all?" he asked at length. "That is all," returned Yusuf. "To trust him you must believe in him, love him, recognize his love, and leave everything to his guidance--everything in this physical life, in your spiritual life, and in the life to come. Then you will find peace. All your days will be spent in a loving round of happy labor, in which no work seems low or trifling--happy because love to Jesus begets the wish to do his will in every affair of life; and perfect love renders service, not a bondage, but the joyful spontaneity of freedom." Kedar was again silent, then he said slowly: "Yusuf, I begin to understand it all now; yet--is there something wrong still?--I have not the overpowering thrill of joy, the exuberance of feeling, the wondrous rapture of delight, which Amzi says he experienced, when, in the prison of Medina, he saw the light." "Be not discouraged, my son," was the reply. "To different temperaments, in religion as in all else, the truth appeals in different ways. If you are trusting implicitly now in God's love, go on without doubt or fear. Most Christians--growing Christians--find that at different stages in their experience certain truths stand out more clearly, and, as the days go by, their difficulties clear away like mists before the morning sun." "Yusuf, can I ever become such a Christian as you?" returned Kedar, in a half-awed tone at the thought. "My son, look not on me," returned Yusuf, tenderly. "Strive only to perceive Jesus in all your life, to find him a reality to you--a companion, ever with you, walking by your side in the hot mart, riding by you in the desert, sitting by you in solitude,--then, where he is, evil cannot come. Your life will become all upright, conscientious, and loving, for his life will show through yours." "And do temptations never come to those so blessed?"