d Midianites, in a moment, as
one might say, the wisdom of coming to the Feet, being born again, and
washing in the blood ceased to be debatable. It would seem very silly,
indeed, to neglect any precaution that would insure the favour of this
God, who slew cities full of men and women and little children off-hand.
The little boy thought Milo Barrus would begin to spell a certain word
with the very biggest "G" he could make, if any one were to bring these
matters to his notice.

As to Allan, who made abstracts of the winter's study, Clytemnestra and
her transcendent relative agreed that he would one day be a power in the
land. Off to Florida each week they sent his writing to Grandfather
Delcher, who was proud of it, in spite of his heart going out chiefly to
the littler boy.

"So this is all I know now about God," ran the conclusion, "except that He
loved us so that He gave His only Son to be crucified so that He could
forgive our sins as soon as He saw His Son nailed up on the cross, and
those that believed it could be with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and
those that didn't believe it, like the Jews and heathens, would have to be
in hell for ever and ever Amen. This proves His great love for us and that
He is the true God. So this is all I have learned this winter about God,
who is a spirit infinite eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom and
power holiness justice goodness and truth, and the word of God is
contained in the scriptures of the old and new testament which is the only
rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. In my next I will take
up the meek and lowly Jesus and show you how much I have learned about
him."

They had been unable to persuade the littler boy into this species of
composition, his mind dwelling too much on the first-born of white rabbits
and such, but to show that his winter was not wholly lost, he submitted a
secular composition, which ran:

"BIRDS

"The Animl kindom is devided into birds and reguler animls. Our teacher
says we had ougt to obsurv so I obsurv there is three kinds of birds
Jingle birds Squeek birds and Clatter birds. Jingle birds has fat rusty
stumacks. I have not the trouble to obsurv any more kinds."

CHAPTER IX

ON SURVIVING THE IDOLS WE BUILD

It is the way of life to be forever building new idols in place of the
old. Into the fabric of these the most of us put so much of ourselves that
a little of us dies each time a cherished image cr