“To keep step,” answered Will Carter, who was captain of the “Young Rangers.”
“And to do that they must be agreed, mustn’t they? have one common impulse, do the same thing.”
“But we can’t do what God does,” said Sarah Ellis, in a tone of surprise.
“Can’t we? What does God do?”
“Why, he makes everything and keeps making it beautiful, and takes care of everything and everybody.”
“And isn’t that what he wants us to do? to help beautify this world of his, just the little bit right around us, helping ourselves and others up into better things as fast and as far as we can? I think that was what Enoch did. What else is necessary for people to walk happily together?”
“They must like the same things,” said Dick, “or they won’t have anything to talk about.”
“Very true: Enoch must have loved what God loved, and so should we. God loves truth and holiness, everything pure and noble and good, and he hates sin. What next?”
“They must love each other,” suggested Sue.
“Yes, indeed; two will never walk together long unless they love one another. God loves everybody, and Enoch must have loved God or he couldn’t have walked with him. God said to those who refused to walk in his ways, ‘All day long have I stretched forth my hand, but no man regardeth.’ That reminds me of what I saw coming to church this morning. A gentleman was walking across the fields, with a dear little yellow-haired boy beside him, who tried his best to take as long steps as his father.”