"But there were surely some who were helped by your words?"
"Yes, thank God. There is a small band of faithful Christians as firm in their faith as I am. They know the Christ; and believing Him to be God take His Word as truth. But the greatest number have been shaken by these views that have been scattered broadcast since the Modern Churchmen's Conference at Cambridge, and there are some who are weak in the faith and just tottering, as it were." Luke rose up and began to walk about the room.
"I feel," he said, "that a stronger man than I am is wanted for this place. It seems to me to be the stronghold of Satan."
"When I am weak, then am I strong," said Rachel.
Luke stood and looked at Rachel for a moment. Then his face broke into a smile.
"Thank God for my wife," he said.
[CHAPTER XVIII.]
GAS STOVES VERSUS MOUNTAINS.
"Next year," said Rachel one day, as she and Luke were on their way to Church, "next year we may not be able to afford a holiday. So I am resolved that we shall have a good one this August. We will go to the Lakes."