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pp “All the way from London my sister was very silent. She seemed nervous—ill—sad! Then Armand met us. When she saw his smile and received his kiss she some how melted. She took us to her appartement and there made a truly remarkable confession. My wife had come, before her death, to realize that Christ was indeed our Messiah. She had feared to tell me, her husband, know ing how strongly Jewish I wasr But to our sister—a Gen tile—she confessed Him. She had prayed for our conver sion, Armand’s and mine. My sister broke down and wept and asked God’s forgiveness for withholding this so many years. “Ah, Mademoiselle—do you remember what we said on the boat, about confessing Christ before the world? Suppose my wife had done so—who knows what changes it would have wrought in,many lives! And how many Easters might not have been wasted! But I have asked to be forgiven too, for withholding my allegiance to Him for any paltry human reason. The stone is rolled away this Easter morning. The lilies told me true ! My soul is satisfied. I can say from my heart, ‘I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He feedeth among the lilies.’ ” Be S ilent It is a great art in the Christian life to learn to be silent. Under oppositions, rebukes, injuries, still be silent. It is better tq say nothing than to speak in an excited man ner, even if the occasion should seem to justify a degree of anger. By remaining silent the mind is enabled to col lect itself and call upon God in secret prayer. And thus you will speak to the honor of your holy profession, as well as to the good of those who have injured you, when you speak from God.— Selected.
They were on the train between Liverpool and Lon don when Cousin Elizabeth confronted Constance with her shortcomings. She had had no idea that Althea had so “influenced” Constance in religious matters, she declared. Constance should have made this clear to her, long ago. And now, the dear Madame, who was to have done ,so much for Connie and for them both, in making Paris gay for them, had made it plain that Connie’s talk with her, about Armand, had very much altered her intention. It was too annoying! No Jerusalem for Connie—or Rofne either! And so it was a very subdued little Constance that alighted in the great London terminal. There they en countered Madame and her brother on the platform. He pressed Constance’ forlorn hand. “Are you bearing a little bit—just an end of a cross?” he murmured. “Be of good cheer! Easter is coming. And I—I have not forgotten the lilies.” Easter in Paris for Constance after all! “As it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,” she felt she could not look upon the gargoyles of Notre Dame or even the classic structure of the Madeleine. She was remember ing how those who loved Him met the Lord in the open road. Thinking of this, she slipped quietly out for a walk in the Bois de Boulogne. And there—she was not sur prised—she found two others walking, Armand and his father, Armand a slender, noble-looking lad whose dark eyes were aglow. “Oh, Mademoiselle! At last I can thank you and say God bless you! My father has told me all. But you must know, it is arranged. I am to go to study in America on the great Pacific Coast, to prepare to work among my peo ple. But father—I will let him tell his own news.”
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