it's all foolishness. And you know I couldn't help them, anyhow.
Come, now, don't you? _What_ are you looking like that for, Cloudy? I
believe you're laughing at me! You think I'll go and get into this
thing, but I'll show you. I _won't_! And that's an end of it. Cloudy,
I insist on knowing what you find to laugh at in this situation."

"Why, I was just thinking how much you reminded me of Moses," said
Julia Cloud sweetly.

"Of _Moses_!" screamed Allison half angrily. "Why, he was a meek man,
and I'm not meek. I'm mad! Out and out _mad_, Cloudy. What do you
mean?"

"Oh, no, he wasn't always meek," said his aunt thoughtfully; "and he
talked just as you are doing when God called on him first to lead the
children of Israel out of Egypt. He said he couldn't and he wouldn't
and he shouldn't, and made every excuse in the calendar; and finally
God had to send along Aaron to help him, although God had said _He_
would be with him and make him perfectly able alone to do what He
wanted done."

"I suppose I'm Aaron," sighed Leslie, settling into a big chair by the
fire. "But I don't like those girls one bit! And I don't care if they
stay in seven Egypts."

"Now, look here, Cloudy Jewel," pleaded Allison. "You're not going to
get me into any such corner as that. The idea that God would call me
to do any of His work when I never had anything at all to do with the
church in my life, and I don't want to. How should I know what to do?
Why should He ever call me, I'd like to know, when I don't know the
first thing about churches? You're all off, Cloudy. Think again. Why,
I'm not even what you'd call a Christian. He surely wouldn't call
people that haven't--well, what you'd call enlisted with Him, would
He?"

"He might," answered Julia Cloud reflectively. She was sitting on the
end of the big blue couch, and the firelight played over her white
hair with silvery lights, and cast a lovely rose tint over her sweet
face. "There were several instances where He called people who had
never known Him at all, who, in fact, were worshipping idols and
strange gods, and told them to go and do something for Him. There was
Paul; he was actually against Him. And there was Abraham; he lived
among regular idol-worshippers, and God called him to go into a
strange land and founded a new family for him, the beginning of the
peculiar people through whose line was to come Jesus, the Saviour of
the world. And Abraham went."

"Oh, nonsense, Cloudy! Th