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This time he did not take the homer pigeons with him.
Goodbye, and we turned back into the house and down the stairs, Happy as mystified as ever, but pretending to be in the know. Down to our school room of sunshine and flowers-or to the garden with the white leghorns pecking at the childrens' gardening efforts. Down we went to all the little tasks that are important in an ordinary world and soon to matter not at all. The Christmas gifts to be finished for the fathers and mothers, and the Christmas carols to be sung. We had Christen, Vera and Johanna at a Calvert school with Clyde and Celene. The carols were almost all that remained of the school, and months afterwards in Durban, South Africa, Vera sang to me a carol. This she had brought away in her mind. Perhaps there are other nuggets in the hearts of these children which will prove the little school not in vain. "And the song-from beginning to end-I found again in the heart of a friend." The Lord of a great estate has time for affairs of his own family. A King may attend to the distant comers of his kingdom and at the same time give attention to the needs of his own little children. A man may stand on a mountain peak and view the forest for many miles and still have eyes for a flower at his feet. When human eyes and hearts may thus readily be focused on the near and the far, shall we put a limit to the heart of The Eternal God? It is none the less wonderful for its being a fact that the Ruler of the sun and stars has said that we may become joint heirs with His Son. The privilege is there for the taking, but it means obedience to the laws of the house. Our own children enter into our houses, but they must be obedient, else there is chaos, and the first law of orderliness is discipline. While a child is young, he is subject to the discipline of others. As he grows older, this outward discipline should gradually be replaced by self-discipline.
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