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Julia Cloud smiled at her wistfully It was so wonderfully sweet to have this bright, beautiful young thing asking her these vital questions

"Why, deary, it's just a day to spend with God and get to enjoy His company," she said "Let me read you this verse in Isaiah: 'Blessed'--that means, 'O the happiness of': I'll read it so--'O the happiness of the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath fro any evil Neither let the son of the stranger that hath joined himself to the Lord'--there, Leslie, that means us, or any Gentiles that want to be Christ's--'speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated us from his people For thus saith the Lord to' thes that please ive in mine house and within hters; I will give the naer that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath fro it, and taketh hold ofto my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer'--you see, Allison, there's a pro the service dull and dry if you are willing to cos and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people'"

She turned the leaves quickly again

"And noant to read you the verse that seems to me to tell how God likes us to keep the Sabbath 'If thou turn away thy foot fro thy pleasure on ht'--you see, Leslie, He doesn't want it to be a dull, poky day He wants us to call it a delight And yet we are to find our pleasure in Hi just to ourselves Listen: 'a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor hi thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine oords: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it'"