"You do? Then you are going to have a liberal education? What are you going to be,—a lawyer?"
"No; I hope to do more good than I could to be a lawyer. I expect to be a minister."
Frank and his mother were both surprised at this announcement, and the latter asked,
"I trust I am. Nothing but becoming a Christian could have saved me from my wicked ways."
"How long since you became a Christian?"
"It is eight or ten months."
Other inquiries elicited the fact, that his brother Sam was no better than when he left town, and that much of the time his parents knew nothing of his whereabouts.
As the evening drew on (Frank had invited Ben to stay with him), Ben inquired if there was a prayer-meeting on that evening, to which he received an affirmative answer.
"Will you go?" he asked, addressing himself to Frank.