"But at the end of a year, she paid her friends there a visit; and when she was hearing all the news, one of them said, 'You remember Lizzie, who was such a naughty girl? Well, she is totally changed. Instead of being the most tiresome, she is the brightest of all the little Christians!"
"Then the mistress took heart, and remembered how she had said, 'Christ knows'?"
"Yes, dears, He knows His sheep, and they follow Him. And in proportion to our realising that He knows, so shall we be strong to follow Him closely!"
"That's very nice," said Tom. "Thank you, Auntie."
"Another day we will have 'following,' for I think it will help us."
They looked up gratefully. They did want to learn more of Christ, and this dear Aunt Ruth had learned in His School, and could help them because she had been close to Him herself.
[CHAPTER III.]
FOLLOWING.
"WHAT are you looking at, Auntie?" The children crowded out of the French window, and stood on the verandah by her side, the stars and the deep twilight sky sending a sort of thrill to their hearts.
"I was watching that old woman and her grandson on their way home. What do you think I heard the boy say as he passed the hedge?"