at they are the soldiers of the
Lord Jesus.

It sometimes happens that young persons who have been carelessly brought
up, or whose religious teaching has been merely formal, have less
hesitation in speaking about personal religion than others who have had
their consciences, if not their hearts, touched by the earnest and
loving appeals of those who watch for their souls as they who must give
account. And so, when David, sometimes unconsciously, and sometimes
with intention, made it clear to him how the aim and purpose of his life
were changed, and how he longed and meant to live in future as the
servant and soldier of Christ, Frank listened and questioned with
interest. And when David went further, and ventured on a gentle word or
two of entreaty or counsel to him personally, he not only listened
patiently, but responded frankly to all. And it was not always David
who was first to turn the conversation to serious subjects. Frank had
never forgotten the lessons learned during his first visit. He had
often, in his own mind, compared the life his father was living with the
life Mr Inglis had lived, and he did not think his father's life was
the wisest or the happiest. "Labour for that which satisfieth not,"
told best the story of his father's life to him. He had thought that
often during the last year, for he knew a little of his sister's
exacting demands, of his brother's careless expenditure, and of the
anxieties which troubled his father's days and nights because of them,
and because of other things. And now, when in Gourlay he heard of the
fruit already gathered and still to gather from the good seed sown in
past years by the minister, he thought it still the more. Even for this
life, the minister had had the best portion. True, he had lived and
died a poor man; but, to Frank, it seemed that more was to be enjoyed in
such poverty than ever his father had enjoyed from his wealth.

Frank had many unhappy thoughts about his father and the rest, and some
about himself. For himself and for them he desired nothing so much as
that they might all learn the secret of perfect contentment which Mr
Inglis had known, which made Mrs Inglis cheerful and not afraid, though
there was little between her and utter poverty--the secret which David
knew and Violet. And so, when David, in his not very assured way, spoke
to him of the true riches, and of how they were to be obtained, he was
more than willing to listen, and please