October 1931
T h e K i n g ’ s B u s i n e s s
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“We want the best,” added Pansy. “You should have the best, but you’re not even try ing for it,” remarked Mr. Wu, who was washing and peel ing potatoes for dinner. He had arrived from an after noon in the laboratory at college just as the caterers left, and was hearing the echoes of the sad affair. “Oh, I s’pose you want us to go around preachin’ with your Thin Red Line,” snapped Marguerite. “That is not the first thing that I wish you to do,” said Mr. Wu gravely as he filled the teakettle. “Well, what is the first thing?” asked Pansy, driven to the question by sheer feminine curiosity. “To know Him whom to know is life eternal.” “You mean God? How can any one know God?” But it was not God whom these girls desired to know. “Christ said, ‘He that hath seen me hath seen the Fa ther—’ ” And then Mr. Wu found himself suddenly alone as the girls hastily and unanimously vanished. * * sje “No use, Althea! Pansy desires to know you,” said Constance. Althea wrinkled her nose a trifle. “And why ?” she asked. “She considers you eligible, old dear.” “Oh, Connie! All that is so long ago, so far away, and so out of my life! ‘This one thing I do !’ I can not take up with any one who does not love my Lord.” • Constance smiled. “What did you do with those passes to the opening night of ‘Garlic’ at the Lifelike?” “Sent them back with a polite note stating distinctly that we could not use them at any time.” “And then she came—” “And then she came to see me. She gave as her rea son that she wished to put on a Bible production—and wanted me to assist her.”
“Well?” “Well, Great-uncle Arnold happened in and said, in his most horrible tone, ‘My dear child, who is that im possible person?’ before poor Pansy was well out of the door!” Constance smiled' mischievously and asked, “Did she hear ?” “I ’m afraid so. She never returned.” “What was her Bible production about?” “Do you know, I think she had some vague general idea of conciliating God by putting out a film that would attract attention to His Word. I told her that, in my opin ion, He did not need that sort of thing; that the instru ment He always chose to use was a consecrated, separated life dedicated to His service.” ‘‘What did she say?” Althea smiled. “She said her cook talked that way. For a moment I could not imagine what she meant, and then it dawned on me. I said at once, ‘Oh! You mean Mr. Wu! He is my friend and brother, as well as a scholar and a gen tleman.’ ” “And then?” “And then Great-uncle Arnold appeared, and she left, as I just related.” There was silence for a moment. “Darling,” said Constance, “I think God wants you to use the power that you, and you alone, can wield over that person.” Althea shifted a little uneasily in her chair. “Why do you think so?” “Because of Mr. Wu, dear. He has talked with me about them, not despairingly, but with intense longing for their salvation. He feels that they will not listen to him as they ought because of his position. ‘You see, Miss Con stance,’ he said very sadly, ‘only gentlefolk like you and Miss Althea realize that a gentleman may do anything,'
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