"She can gain them," replies Morton. "You did."
"To be taught the inadequacy of perishable things to satisfy a soul which must live forever!" muses Ida, gazing into the blaze. "I can apply literally that text—'Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.'"
"There are not many who can, in a temporal sense," says Charley.
"But who may not, spiritually? Why will men make a comfortless, doleful mystery of our cheerful, life-giving, home Faith? Why not think, write, talk of it?—"
"And act it?" interrupts Charley.
FINIS.
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious errors and inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been corrected.