“‘Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the servants of men!’
“Let not the question with you be ‘How shall I obtain wealth and fame? How gain the approbation of my fellow men?’ but ‘What shall I do that I may please God? how shall I best honor and glorify him? how do the most for the upbuilding of his cause and kingdom?’
“‘For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God’s.’
“Gracie, can you tell me what that price was?”
“Yes, papa, one of my Bible verses says, ‘Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.’”
Here the conversation was interrupted by the bringing in of the captain’s breakfast.
Max sprang up and rolled a small table to the side of the couch, while Lulu quickly brought and spread upon it a snow-white damask cloth which she took from a closet. Upon that the servant set the silver waiter she had brought in. Then Lulu poured out a cup of coffee for her father, while Max broke and seasoned his egg, and Grace handed him a plate and the buttered toast.
It was evidently a delight to each one of them to wait upon him, and to him to receive their loving service.
They hovered lovingly about him till his meal was finished, then went to the dining-room for their own.
While they were thus engaged the captain had a delightful surprise.