"Norton will please read the sixth verse."
"'But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.'"
"But that don't tell either," said Norton, when he had read.
"I think it does," said Matilda, slowly. "It tells one thing. Mr. Richmond, it doesn't tell how much one ought to like to give. That was the very question between Norton and me; and we could not settle it."
"Don't you see, Matilda, that everybody's heart would give its own answer to that question?"
"But, Mr. Richmond, surely there is a right and a wrong answer?"
"I am afraid a good many wrong answers," said Mr. Richmond.
Norton looked as if he would like to say something, but modestly kept back before the minister. Mr. Richmond caught the look.
"Speak out, Norton," said he, smiling. "Truth will always bear to be looked at."
"I don't know much about it, sir," said Norton. "Only it seems to me, that if one begins to help other people all one can, one will soon want helping himself."