no unusual
accompaniments for a journey in that country, so Robinson still hoped
to be allowed to pass with a peaceable salutation. Instead of bowing
themselves in return, according to the beautiful Oriental custom, with
the threefold gesture that signifies 'My head, my lips, and my heart
are all at your service,' and the spoken wish that his day might be
blessed, the three men rushed at the English wayfarer and threw
themselves upon him, demanding money. One man held a gun with its
muzzle touching Robinson's breast, another searched his pockets and
took out everything that he could find, while the third held the
asses. 'I, not resisting them,' is their victim's simple account,
'stood in the fear of the Lord, who preserved me, for they passed
away, and he that took my things forth of my pockets put them up
again, taking nothing from me, nor did me the least harm. But one of
them took me by the hand and led me on my way in a friendly manner,
and so left me.... So I, passing through like dangers through the
great love of God, which caused me to magnify His holy name, came,
though in much weakness of body, to Ramleh.'

At Ramleh worse dangers even than he had met with on his former visit
were awaiting him. Many more perils and hairbreadth escapes had yet to
be surmounted before he could say that his feet--his tired feet--had
stood 'within thy gates, O Jerusalem.' Throughout these later
hardships his faith must have been strengthened by the memory of his
encounter with the robbers, and the victory won by the everlasting
power of meekness.

East or West, the Master's command can always be followed: the command
not to fight evil with evil, but to overcome evil with good.

Leonard Fell was given his opportunity of 'putting in practice the
things he had learned' as he travelled in England. Our later pilgrim
had the honour of being tested in the Holy Land itself:

'In those holy fields,
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet,
Which [nineteen] hundred years ago were nailed
For our advantage on the bitter cross.'

XXVIII. SILVER SLIPPERS: OR A QUAKERESS AMONG THE TURKS

_'If romance, like laughter, is
the child of sudden glory, the
figure of Mary Fisher is the most
romantic in the early Quaker
annals.'--MABEL BRAILSFORD._

_'Truly Mary Fisher is a precious
heart, an