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Leslie dropped back on her pillow of h "I s'pose it does," she answered somewhat disconsolately "But I never did like Sundays anyhow!" and she drew a deep breath of unrest

"But, dear,"--Julia Cloud's hand rested on the bright head lovingly,--"there's a closer sense than that in which this belongs to us if we belong to Christ; we are Israel ourselves I was reading about it just this , how all those ant to be Christ's chosen people, and are willing to accept Him as their Saviour, are Israel just as ain Yes, here it is in Romans: 'For they are not all Israel which are of Israel: neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called That is, they which are children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed' That iven to Abraham that there should be a Messiah sometime in his family ould be the Saviour of the world, and the idea is that all who believe in that Messiah are the real chosen people It was to the chosen people God gave these careful directions--commands, if you like to call theht to be And the Sabbath rest and communion seeuided by God It is the co home to God after the toil of the week They had to have a ti a whole day with Hi to knohat He wanted and how to shape their lives, or they would just as surely get interested in the world and forget God"

"Well, I don't see e have to go to church, anyway," declared Leslie discontentedly "This is a great deal better out here under the trees, reading the Bible"

"Yes," said Allison "Cloudy, thathi"

"O Allison, dear! Don't speak of God's minister that way!"

"Why not, Cloudy? Maybe he isn't God's et there, anyway? Just decided to be a ot himself called to that church, didn't he?"