Then, without waiting for any answer, he continued slowly turning the pages, reading me from his marked places.
"'Delight thyself in the Lord and He shall give thee the desires of thy heart.'
"'The joy of the Lord shall be your strength.'
"'He that endureth to the end shall be saved.'
"There are signs put up, too, not only to mark springs but to inform us," interpolated Jim.
"Now once as we was journeying, it come over me that these springs may have been intended for others and not for us and that very night, I come upon this sign and it took every bit of doubt out of my heart.
"'For the promise is unto you and your children.' How could it be plainer than that?"
As he closed the Book I said: "I, too, have a Book but I think sometimes I have lost my way as I journeyed and I am going to put up sign-boards of my own now, so I'll never lose my way again. There is no use to camp in dark valleys when just beyond are the hills and the springs. It's unwise to wander thru deserts of generalizations when the promises are close at hand."
"Yes," added Jim, "what do we care whether King Agag was hewed to pieces or not. We know the words of salvation."