If she were shocked she kept the shock out of her voice. She told Roger afterward she was almost too shocked to speak.
“The queerest thing that meant nothing: ‘And a cubit on the one side and a cubit on the other side.’”
“I am glad you found that,” said Marion, “I think God wanted to help you by giving you that.”
“But it didn’t help; how could it?”
“It helps me.”
“It doesn’t sound like a Bible verse; it is just nothing,” persisted Judith.
“God’s words can never be ‘just nothing.’ Those words were something to somebody, and they are a great deal to me. Do you remember something Christ says about a cubit?”
“No; did he ever say anything?”
“He said this: Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? You were taking thought to add something to your life. Your thought-taking has not done it,” said Marion, thinking that her own thought-taking had added no cubit to her own life.
“No, indeed; I never should have thought of the parsonage boarding-school. Who did think of it besides you, Miss Marion?”