“I s’pose that’s why there isn’t more stepping-stones to help folks up to heaven,—’cause other folks forget, don’t you? But you might ask Him now before we go, you know.”
So they knelt down together, and two earnest little prayers went up into God’s great, loving ear.
Even talkative Nanny felt the influence of Maybee’s quiet, happy face, as the classes took their respective seats, and listened attentively while the superintendent read a chapter and the pastor prayed.
Then the school sang the hymn beginning,—
“Our joyful notes we gladly raise,
To Him whose name we love.”
After which the superintendent announced the subject of the concert by reading the following anecdote.
III.
JESUS’ NAME.
“And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.”