"It makes me so glad to hear you say that!" she said.
"The praise of it is your mother's, you know, Ellen."
"I know it but you make me so glad!" And hiding her face in
Alice's lap, she fairly sobbed.
"You understand now, don't you, how Christians may honour or dishonour their Heavenly Father?"
"Yes, I do; but it makes me afraid to think of it."
"Afraid! It ought rather to make you glad. It is a great honour and happiness for us to be permitted to honour Him
'A never-dying soul to save
And fit it for the sky.'
Yes that is the great duty you owe yourself. Oh, never forget it, dear Ellen! And whatever would hinder you, have nothing to do with it. 'What shall it profit a man though he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?'
'To serve the present age,
My calling to fulfil ' "
"What is 'the present age?' " said Ellen.