"'Only believe—'" he answered. "Do what you say you are willing to do."
"But," said Faith, looking at him with a face which certainly spoke her near the 'little child' character which Christians do bear,—"there must be something else. I must not be like what I have been. I want to know what I ought to do."
"Christ's own words tell you better than I can,—'My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me'—that is the description of a Christian on earth. And then it follows—'I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.'"
There was silence; and then Faith said,
"But how am I to follow him?"
"How did the people do to whom he said those words when he was on earth?"
"I don't know!"
"'They arose, and left all, and followed him.'"
"Well, Mr. Linden?"—
"It is just such a following that we are called to now—only that it must be in heart and life instead of actual footsteps. Just so must we rise up from doing our own will and pleasure, fix our eyes upon Christ, and follow him!"