given him,'" repeated Winifred. "What do you
think that means, Hubert?"

Hubert gazed into vacancy meditatively. "I don't know," he announced,
very slowly; "there is a profound mystery here which I have seen in
earlier chapters. I do not see the point of meeting between two laws
that seem almost contradictory. But one point seems very clear, and it
meets us very simply on our human side: that is, that the one who 'is
willing to do His will' is the one whom the Father 'gives' to Jesus
Christ."

"It is very sweet," said Winifred, "to think of being given by the
Father to Him. It seems surer, somehow, than to just give oneself."

Hubert's deep eyes kindled and glowed with a liquid fire. "Yes," he
said in a suppressed voice, "it is wonderful." He was standing on
ground that had not by long habit grown coldly theological, but was
instinct with life to him through a new and vital experience.

They read on:

"And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent."

They paused to meditate, and Winifred was the first to break the
silence.

"Hubert," she said in a low voice, "it must be we have entered upon
eternal life. We have begun to know Him."

Her voice sank upon the last word, and her lips trembled.
Instinctively she held out her hand to her brother, and he clasped it
in his. Tears streamed down upon her book, and Hubert was not ashamed
that his own eyes were moist. They were silent for some moments, while
the young man beheld afresh that eternal, infinite realm out of which
the Word had come forth, and he knew himself born into it. Earth
seemed illusory--but the scene of a moment--in the glory of that vision.

They read on and Hubert explained to his sister what he saw in the
request of the Lord Jesus to be given again the glory which He had with
the Father "before the world was." Never in his reading of the Gospel
had he lost sight of its beginning, and he read these words, as he had
others, in its light. He turned back and read the opening verses of
the first chapter to Winifred in explanation of the glory to be given
back, and the very fact of its being asked for, as though having been
surrendered for the time, shed a light upon passages poorly understood
before, which had shown clearly His humanity and His subjection to the
Father.

Again they read on, pondering as they read, but paused over the ninth
verse:

"I pray for them; I pray