“It is I!” whispered the voice again—and there stepped from the same corner the woman with her baby. She smiled, and the baby smiled, and they were gone.
“And it is I!” whispered the voice again—and there stepped forth the old woman and the boy with the apple. They smiled, and were gone.
Joy filled the soul of Martin Avdeitch as he crossed himself, put on his spectacles, and set himself to read the Testament at the place where it had opened. At the top of the page he read:
“For I was an hungred, and ye gave Me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took Me in.”
And further down the page he read:
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto Me.”
Then Avdeitch understood that the vision had come true, and that his Saviour had in very truth visited him that day, and that he had received Him.
WOOD-LADIES[[5]]
By PERCEVAL GIBBON
[5]. By permission of the author. Copyright by Charles Scribner’s Sons.