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ill--would you still hold that everything had really turned out well?"

"Certainly I would, Jeff, on the simple ground that God is good and
cannot err, though He has many and strange methods of bringing about His
ends. You can prove it by taking an extreme case. Go to one of the
early martyrs, who lost not only property, and health, and friends, and
liberty, but finally his life at the stake. The unbeliever's view would
be that everything had gone against him; his own view, that God had put
on him great honour in counting him worthy to suffer and die for Jesus;
and you could not doubt his sincerity when you heard his hymns of praise
on the way to the stake--ay, even in the _fire_."

"Then, whatever happens--good or bad--auntie," said Rose, "you would
say, `All is well.'"

"I would believe it, dear, whether I had courage to say it or not. If
strength were given, I would certainly acquiesce, and say, `Thy will be
done.'"

"Amen! Long may we live to say that, Molly," said Captain Millet,
entering the cottage at that moment. And the captain's prayer was
granted; for he and Molly--and the ex-coastguardsman with his Rosebud
lived many a year after that to see the completion of the swimming-bath,
and the people's' library, and the gymnasium, and the evening classes,
and the model houses, etcetera, and to experience the truth of that
blessed Word which tells us that "all things work together for good to
them that love God."

THE END.

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