“Praise the Day Spring that hath visited us!”
“You echo the thought of all our souls, Cornelius.”
And it was so that on the day following the chapel of the “House of Rest” was filled with much the same company that met there the last time.
Miriamne arrived early and eagerly questioned Cornelius as he passed her on his way to his robing-room:
“Oh, brother, hast thou a message of grace and hope for me, to-day?”
“The entrance of thy word giveth light,” was his quiet reply; and he passed on, not daring to tarry near the woman that so strangely moved him. He felt very serious, and hence avoided that which might distract his attention.
But Miriamne felt assured, while Cornelius was all faith in the efficacy of the Divine word in working the cure of minds perturbed.
Presently he stood behind his reading-desk and, waiting until the organ tone had died away, commenced by reading these words:
“And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
“And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.”