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service being used._

_Is our simple Quaker way of worship really worth the price they paid
for it? Or is it merely a quaint and interesting relic of a by-gone
age, something like the 'Friend's bonnet' that Lois' Grandmother wore
as a matter of course, which now is never used, but lies in a drawer,
carefully covered with tissue paper and fragrant with lavender?_

_Is our Quaker faith like that? Is it something antiquated and
interesting, but of no real use to us or to anybody to-day? Or did
these 'Quaker Saints' of whom we have heard, did they, and many other
brave men and women, whose stories are not written here, really and
truly make a big discovery? Did they, by their living and by their
dying, remind the world of a truth that it had been in danger of
forgetting? a truth that may still be in danger of being forgotten
if quite ordinary, everyday people are not faithful now in their
turn?_

[Illustration: A FRIENDS' MEETING]

_Is it really and truly true, that where two or three humble human
souls are gathered together in His Name, in the simplest possible
fashion, without any priest, or altar, or visible signs to help them,
yet our Lord is there? Can He be indeed among them still to-day? and
will He be forever, as He promised? feeding them Himself with the true
Bread of Life, satisfying their thirst with Living Water, baptizing
their souls with Power and with Peace?--_

_Children dear, you must answer these questions for yourselves,
fearlessly and honestly. No one else can answer them for you. The
answers may seem long in coming, but do not be in a hurry. They will
come in time, if you seek steadfastly and humbly. Only remember one
thing, as you think over these questions. Even if this is our way, the
right way for us, this very simple Quaker way that our forefathers won
for us at such a cost, still that does not necessarily make it the
right way for all other people too. God's world and God's plans are
much bigger than that. He brings His children home by numbers of
different paths, but for each child of His, God's straight way for
that child is the very best._

_The wise old Persians had a proverb, 'The ways unto God are as the
number of the souls of the children of men.' Let us remember this, if
we ever want to try to force other people to think about things
exactly as we do. Let us remember, too, that rivalry and pride, that
saying, or even thinking, 'My way is the only right way, and a much
better way