"Is there not a blessing for those who obey this command? Look here," said Viner, opening his Bible, and pointing to these words from the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah: "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."
"That may have been so once, but I don't believe that it is so now," said Walter.
"God knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning, He is 'the same yesterday, to-day, and forever!'"
"I only know," muttered Walter, "that the way in which you go on is the way to starve."
"Do you believe that our Heavenly Father ever suffers any one to starve for obeying His commandment?"
"I can't tell," replied Walter, still rather surlily.
"Do you believe that He, to whom all the treasures of earth and heaven belong, who created the world and every living thing upon it, is able to provide for our wants?"
"I believe that the Almighty is able."
"But you doubt that He is willing?"
Walter was silent.