now?"

"Yes, I know."

"I am afraid I don't know all my talents."

"What do you mean, David?"

"The talents are whatever is given to us to use for God--and that is,
whatever is given to us; for we may use it all for him."

"Yes, David."

"Well--that means a great deal, Tilly."

"Yes, I know it does."

"And one might easily have talents that one didn't think of; lying by
so, and not used at all."

"I dare say they often do," Matilda said thoughtfully.

"I want you to help me, if you can."

"_I_ help _you?_" said Matilda very humbly.

"You have been longer in the way than I. You ought to know more about
it."

"I am afraid I don't, though, David. But I guess Jesus will teach us,
if we ask him."

"I am sure of that; but I think he means that we should help one
another. What can I do, that I am not doing?"

Matilda thought a little, and then went upstairs and fetched the card
of covenant and work of the old Band at Shadywalk. She put it in
David's hands, and he studied it with great interest.

"There is help in this," he said. "There are things here I never
thought of. 'Carrying the message'--of course I needn't wait till I
have finished my studies and am grown up, to do that; it is easy to
begin now."

"Are you going to do _that_, when you are grown up?" said Matilda a
little timidly.

"As a profession, you mean. I don't know, Tilly; if the Lord pleases. I
am all his anyway; I don't care how he uses me. What I want to know is
my duty now. Then, Tilly, I have plenty of money."

"That's a very good thing," said Matilda smiling.

"What shall I do with it? Do your poor people want anything?"

"Sarah Staples? O no! they are getting on nicely. Sarah has learned how
to sew on a machine, or partly learned; and she gets work to do now;
and Mrs. Staples is stronger, and is able to take in washing. O no;
they are getting along very well."

"There must be others," said David thoughtfully.

"Yes, plenty I suppose; only we don't know them, David! perhaps Sarah
knows or her mother."

"What if we were to go and ask them?"

Matilda decided that it was a capital plan; and they arranged to go the
next Saturday afternoon, when David would be at leisure. And the week
seemed long till the Saturday came.

"Pink," said Norton at their dinner, "I will take you into the Park
this afternoon."

"O thank you, Norton! But--I can't go. I have an engagement to go to
see Sarah Staples."

"Sarah Staples! Sarah Staples