"I dare say they often do," Matilda said thoughtfully.
"I want you to help me, if you can."
"I help you?" said Matilda very humbly.
"You have been longer in the way than I. You ought to know more about it."
"I am afraid I don't, though, David. But I guess Jesus will teach us, if we ask him."
"I am sure of that; but I think he means that we should help one another. What can I do, that I am not doing?"
Matilda thought a little, and then went upstairs and fetched the card of covenant and work of the old Band at Shadywalk. She put it in David's hands, and he studied it with great interest.
"There is help in this," he said. "There are things here I never thought of. 'Carrying the message'—of course I needn't wait till I have finished my studies and am grown up, to do that; it is easy to begin now."
"Are you going to do that, when you are grown up?" said Matilda a little timidly.
"As a profession, you mean. I don't know, Tilly; if the Lord pleases. I am all his anyway; I don't care how he uses me. What I want to know is my duty now. Then, Tilly, I have plenty of money."