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Julia Cloud had a sudden feeling that everything hirling beneath her--the very foundations of the earth She drew a deep breath, and tried to steady herself, thinking in her heart that she reat crisis that had arisen It flashed across her consciousness that she was a simple, old-fashioned wo all her life in a little tohere the line between the church and the world was strongly marked, where the traditions of Christianity were still held sacred in the hearts of many and where the customs of worldliness had not yet noticeably invaded All the articles she had read in the religious press about the worldliness of the modern Sabbath, the terrible desecration of the day that had been dear and sacred to her all her life as being the tile between the church and the world to keep the old laws rigidly; and all the sneers she had seen in the secular press against the fanatics ere trying to force the world back to Puritanisony as she recognized that she was face to face with one of the biggest religious probleht it out alone

The beautiful life that had see out before her was not, then, to be all beauty Behind the flowers of this new Eden there hid a serpent of temptation; and she, Julia Cloud, disciple of the Lord Christ, was to be tried out to see what faith there was in her For aHow could she face it, she, who knew so little what to say and how to tell her quiet heart-beliefs? Why had she been placed in such a position? Why was there not souide the feet of these children into the straight and narroay?

But only a moment she shrank thus The voice of her Master seemed to speak in her heart as the hirled by the car and stirred the loose hair on her forehead The voice that had been her guide through life was requiring her noitness to these thom she loved, as no other could do it, be they ever so wise; just because she loved the to be wise, only following Then she drew a deep breath, reonize, and sat up gravely