"We can't tell, unless we ask her," replied Ada. "But have any of us ever heard her say what she wanted?"
"I have," said Tim. "I have heard her say that what she wanted the most of anything was to have her scholars come to Christ."
"But I mean something that we could give her."
"But if we should make up our minds to be Christians, it would make her pleased," said Tim, "and perhaps she'd rather be pleased in this way than to have a present."
"I know that she would," said Nettie; "and I say, let's settle the question once for all."
The others looked in amazement at Nettie; they could scarcely understand what she meant. Her face was flushed, and she was trembling with emotion, but one thing was certain, and that was that Nettie was in earnest—also Tim; and whatever Tim wanted the others to do they generally did.
"You may as well tell us what you do mean," said Mark.
"Why, just what I said," replied Tim. "I think it is about time that we began to think some of being Christians—that is, if what the minister says is true, and I suppose that it is, for everybody believes everything else that he says, when he has anything to say in our house and in the store."