"But, Fibo, isn't all that we have been doing any use?" asked Freda.
"Of course it is. But to be obedient to Nurse, and unselfish and kind to each other, is quite as important."
"Daffy and me feel we'd like to please God, but we don't care about pleasing Nurse—not always," said Freda.
"And that is just where you are wrong. If you are learning to love the Lord Who loves you, you will only please Him by keeping His commandments. And one of His commandments is, 'Obey them that have the rule over you.' I should like you to practise this verse: 'If ye love Me, keep My commandments.' You have been ready enough to try to follow out some of the commands in the Bible. Visiting the sick and helping the poor is all right. But if you never left your nursery, and could do neither of those, there are other commands you could keep."
"But then we don't know them all, and we forget so."
"Ask God to remind you, and to tell you."
"You'd better have an angel," suggested Dreamikins.
Fibo shook his head at her.
"I don't know that I approve of your angels," he said. "You seem to do pretty well what you like with them. And they get between you and God."
The children were silent. It was not often they had such a grave talk as this.