Rosie had fallen asleep upon a sofa with her head in her eldest sister's
lap, Vi on an ottoman beside them, tightly clasping a hand of each.
Elsie had her babe in her arms; he was sleeping sweetly, and laying her
head back, she closed her eyes while her thoughts flew to Ion, to the
husband and father who would perhaps learn to-morrow of the loss of all
his treasures.
Her heart bled for him, as she seemed to see him bowed down with
heart-breaking sorrow.
Then arose the question "what should the end bring to them--herself and
her beloved children?"
For herself she could say, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death; I will fear no evil; for thou art with me." Elsie, Vi and Eddie
she had good reasons to hope were true Christians; but Harold and
Herbert?--A pang shot through her heart. Good, obedient children though
they were, she yet knew not that they had ever experienced that new birth
without which none can enter heaven.
Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God."
"Mamma, what is it?" Eddie asked, seeing her glance anxiously from side to
side.
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