'"So, Anthony, what about My other fishing?"
'"I've not forgotten what you chose I should do years ago, Sir, and if you order this I must go."
'"And still——?"
'"And still be Your unprofitable servant, Sir." For all at once I saw that, too.
'"Anthony, is 'I'll go because I'm ordered' really the best that you can say?"
'I looked out over the beautiful river, at the hills I loved, and I thought of the friends I would have to leave, and of the beauty of my old Devonshire home, and my heart ached increasingly for your mother. I looked at Ross, too, coming back in the duck punt—Ross, the last of my immediate family left to me—and I felt that I could only go out to the mission field if I were ordered.
'"Anthony, have you ever heard the old saying, 'Don't look at the thing that is asked for, but at the One who asks'?"
'"No, Sir."
'"Some people say you see then if it's worth while."
'So I looked at The Man who asked, and saw afresh God's Son. And suddenly I perceived the limitless love of Him, and His unbounded sacrifice, and the whole divine patience and perfection and beauty of The Man, and I cried, in sudden surrender and adoration,—