"How?"
"He would work then, and earn more. How stupid to ask, Meredith!"
"But an accident might happen to him; or he might fail to get work; or he might miss his pay."
"Yes, of course. I think it would be fanatical even then. But when he was dying, and couldn't do anything!"——
"But if in any case he must trust for a day—what does it signify? God can send help in a day."
"I should not think He would, when people throw away wantonly what they have got already."
"What is given to Jesus isn't thrown away," said Maggie.
"And He always pays it back with interest," said Mr. Murray. "And what is entrusted to Him is never neglected. I think that old German peasant was very safe in his proceeding."
"But so unnatural!" cried Esther. "Not to be sorry to leave his wife and children!"
"I have no doubt he was very sorry to leave them. The only thing is, he was more glad to go to Jesus."