When he reached the garden again, the gentle Glaube met him, and welcomed him back again to their peaceful home. But he hung down his head with shame and with sorrow; and as he looked up into the face of the Lord of the garden, he saw in it such kindness and love, that his tears rolled down his cheeks to think how he had broken His command, and wandered into the wilderness of His enemies. Then he tried to speak for his brother, for his heart was sore and heavy with thinking of him; but the Lord of the castle answered not. Many, many days did Glaube and Zart pray for him; but they heard nothing of him: whether he died in the enemies' dungeon; or whether, as they still dared to hope, he might even yet one day find his way back to the garden of peace; or whether, as they sometimes trembled to think, he had grown up amongst the enemies of their Lord, and become one of them,--they knew not, and they dared not to ask. But they never thought of him without trembling and tears, and Zart more even than Glaube: for he had crossed that terrible border; he had been seized by the fierce enemy; he had lain alone in the wide scorching desert; and had only been brought back again from death by the great love of the mighty and merciful Lord of that most happy garden. * * * * * _Father_. Who are meant by these children born in the wretched hovel? _Child_. All the children of fallen parents. F. Who are such? C. All who are born. For we were "by nature born in sin, and the children of wrath." F. Who is the kind Lord of the castle who takes pity on them? C. Jesus Christ our Lord. F. What is meant by His taking them to His castle? C. His receiving us when children into His Church. F. When was this done? C. At our baptism. For "being by nature children of wrath, we were hereby made the children of grace." F. What is meant by the clean raiment and the new name He gave them? C. The "forgiveness of all our sins" (see Collect in Confirmation-Service), and the giving us our Christian name. F. Why is it called your Christian name? C. To mark its difference from our natural, or parents' name. F. Why was it given you at that time? C. Because then I was taken into God's family, and "made a member of Christ, child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." F. What was the food with which they were fed? C. All the means of grace of the Church of Christ. F. What was the desert, and who those who dwelt in it who were enemies to the Lord? C. The ways of sin, and the devil and his angels. F. What were the bright flowers and the bird? C. The baits and temptations of sin. F. Why did Kuhn, or "bold," cross the border more easily the second time? C. Because one sin makes another easier. F. Why did Zart, or "tender," follow him? C. Because bold sinners lead weaker sinners after them. F. What were the dry sands into which Kuhn and Zart were carried? C. The evil ways of sin.