aid Mr. Durnford, briskly, entering the amounts
in his note book. "Now, Mr. Botterill."

"Well," was the reluctant response, "I suppose I shall have to follow
suit."

Mr. Durnford smiled.

"Thank you, gentlemen, all," he said. "Keep that up, and it will afford
you more pleasure than you think."

When, shortly afterwards, the minister took his departure, the three
friends resumed their smoking; but they did not return to their criticism
of "the Golden Shoemaker."

CHAPTER XXXII.

"IN LABOURS MORE ABUNDANT."

Unlike many wealthy professors of religion, "the Golden Shoemaker" did not
suppose that, in giving his money to the various funds of the church, he
fulfilled, as far as he was concerned, all the claims of the Cause of
Christ. He did not imagine that he could purchase, by means of his
monetary gifts, exemption from the obligation to engage in active
Christian work. He did not desire to be thus exempt. His greatest delight
was to be directly and actively employed in serving his Divine Lord; and
so little did he think of availing himself of the occasion of his sudden
accession to wealth to withdraw from actual participation in the service
of Christ, that he hailed with intense joy the richer opportunities of
service with which he was thus supplied.

For some years "Cobbler" Horn had been a teacher in a small Mission Sunday
School, which was carried on in a low part of the town by several members
of Mr. Durnford's church. But, about a year previous to the change in his
circumstances, he had been persuaded by the minister to transfer his
services to the larger school. He always made the conversion of his
scholars his chief aim; and very soon after he entered on his new sphere,
one of the boys in his class, a bright little fellow about nine years old,
named Willie Raynor, had been very remarkably converted to God. The boy
was promising to become a very thorough-going Christian, and no one
rejoiced more than he in the good fortune of "Cobbler" Horn.

There was considerable speculation, amongst the friends and
fellow-teachers of "the Golden Shoemaker," as to whether his altered
circumstances would lead to the relinquishment of his work in the school.
Little Willie Raynor heard some whisper of this talk, and was much
distressed. His relations with his beloved teacher were very close; and,
without a moment's hesitation, he went straight to "Cobbler" Horn, and