"I am glad you all understand it so well," said the colonel, "and still more glad that you all like it. It was Maggie's little hymn which made me think of it. So you may thank her, too, for any pleasure it has given you."
"And who is Experience?" asked Maggie.
"Experience may be older people who are generally wiser in some things than the little ones, and can help them along; but who may yet learn much from a child."
"Children cannot teach grown people; can they?" said Lily.
"I think they can," said Colonel Rush, laying his hand lovingly on Bessie's head. "The best lesson I ever learned in my life was taught me by a little child."
"Who?" asked Maggie.
"And what was the lesson?" said Gracie.
"You must not ask," he answered. "Here is your papa, Maggie; and Tom for you, Lily."
The children said good-by to their kind friends, and went away, promising gladly to come again the next Sunday.