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bility, and that’s a great big step. She is a little bitter, to be sure, and feels herself a bit deserted by all her old pals —Margaret and Douglas and Lawrence arid so on, but she’s admitting things, which she’d never do before !” “And to think,” breathed Elise, “that I did not want to go there with the Christmas waits !” “The case requires handling, however,” continued Bill. “We must be canny fishermen and not let the big fish escape. I call all of you to counsel with Uncle Alan here .—wish he was my real uncle !—and I recommend as a first step that you all begin to show Althea that she is not altogether an outcast. Yes ! I know she has ridiculed us. But aren’t we glad to be ‘fools for Christ’s sake’?” Bill turned to Donald Donaldson of thé Cameron Clan. “God bless you, for standing firm with her, old Don ald,” he said. “It was that Christian courage and honesty that first shook her out of her security. .And Margaret and Doug here have the same story to tell—that what first moved and won them was the testimony of your life.” Then, seeing that Donald was reduced to a perfectly speechless embarrassment by this well-deserved praise, Bill turned to the wreath of youths. “How shall we go about it? is the question in your minds. Well, I’ll tell you one way—quit being a Pharisee with Althea. How many here could lift their hands if I asked those to do so who had never had a critical thought of her? I won’t embarrass you by putting you to the test. And I’ve been just as bad as the next one—I ’m free to admit it. What right have we to feel superior to her? What are we but just saved sinners ourselves? We all know that in us dwelleth no good thing and yet we treat her as a sort of—untouchable ! This .will never win any one. But we cannot right about face, smash! bang! and rush over there. We’re ambassadors! Let’s use finesse! When father and I were there today she was just sort of crushed and said she missed Doug and Margaret and Lawrence, and she never saw them any more, and she couldn’t love anyone else as she loved them.” Silence for a moment and then Elise spoke. “I ’ve been most to blame, I am afraid ! I ’ve led the way in these actions. : Let’s begin on Christmas morning by singing the Christmas carols there first, and then by inviting her to go the rounds with us. She sings beauti fully.” “I ’m all for that,” began Lawrence the generous, but Uncle Alan was speaking. “You make me think of the old Gospel hymn, ‘I ’ll tell the one next to me, and you’ll tell the one next to you.’ Don’t you see that is what you’ve been doing? And the result is this, ‘We’ll win them! Win them one by one!’ ” “Let everyone here pray that the Lord will help us to give Him Althea Sumner as a Christmas gift,” sug gested Douglas Snowdon. “One more thing,” exclaimed Bill. “If she does come out for Christ we must make it perfectly clear to her what she is doing. First, that she is lost without Him, that all her culture and whatever amiability she may have, will not—cannot save her. Second, that she must be born again by taking Christ as her Saviour and that only His blood is efficacious for the cleansing away of sins, and of sin. Third, that having taken Him, and received the great gift of eternal life, it is inalienably hers— nothing thereafter can take it from her. Whoever among us is chosen of God to deal with her, bear this in mind.’’ “And now we must practice our carols,” said Pauline.
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