not for the world, but for them which Thou
hast given Me; for they are Thine."

"Do you think that means, Hubert," said Winifred, "that He does not
pray for the world? It seems very exclusive. But we know that God
loves the world?"

"I think," said Hubert, "that the discrimination is not _against_ the
world, but rather _for_ those given Him out of it. He must care
specially for them. Perhaps if we read on we shall see the special
character of this prayer for us."

The words "for us" slipped out very naturally, and he did not recall
them, so sweet and sure was the confidence of having been given into
the hands of Jesus Christ.

So they read on, and noted the petitions of the priestly prayer for His
own. They did not sound the depths of meaning in them, for they were
yet but babes; but they observed the strong line of enclosure which
separated them from the world and the Lord's reiterated statement that
they were not of it, even as He.

"It is very strange," remarked Winifred to Hubert, "that Doctor
Schoolman has never told us about this." But she amended quickly,
"Perhaps he has many times and I have not listened. But I have always
thought we were all very much alike, only that some people were better
than others; never that there was such a sharp line drawn between those
who are given to Christ and the rest of the world."

"I do not think we have heard much about it," said Hubert. "I have not
been much of a church-goer, but I think for the most part we have been
talked to as though we were all on the same plane as regards
relationship to God and Jesus Christ."

"But this line is so very exclusive," said Winifred almost regretfully.

"So very _inclusive_, you mean," said Hubert, smiling.

"An inclusive line must be exclusive also, must it not?" she persisted.

"I suppose it must," he admitted. "The same walls that shut us in this
house shut everybody else out. But there is a way in," he added,
intent upon the doctrine of God's free grace found true by his own
experiment.

"Yes," said Winifred, "'Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast
out.' That gave me great comfort when I read it, Hubert. But I was
thinking now that if I had not come to know that I was outside, I
should never have come inside."

They finished the chapter, dwelling upon the words:

"Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me
where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me;
for