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It came over her that she had been a fool to atte things Their own ideas were fully made up about all questions that seemed vital to her She had been a fossil in a back-country place all her life, and of course they felt she did not know Well, of course she did not know much about modern society and its ways, save to dread it, and to doubt it, and to wish to keep them away from it She was prejudiced, perhaps Yes, she had been reared that way, and the world would call her narrow Would Christ the Lord feel that way about it? Did He like to have His children dressing like abandoned wouise of polite social customs? Did He want His children to spend their Sabbaths in play, however innocent the play h away from theNo, she could not see it any other way It was the way of the world, and that was all there was to it Leslie had made it plain when she said they had to do it or be left out And wasn't that just what itto give up doubtful things that har pure and unspotted from the world? "If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you," came the familiar old words Well, and what should she do now? It wouldn't do to rave and fuss about things That never did any good She couldn't say she wouldn't stay if they danced and went away over the Sabbath Those were things in which she h to decide such matters for themselves She could only use her influence, and trust the rest with the Lord Yes, there was one thing she could do She could pray!
So Julia Cloud gave her quiet orders to Cherry, and went up to her rose-and-gray roo for her beloved children through the long hours of that long, long evening
It was a quiet face that she lifted at last frohtness of a face-to-face communion with her Lord; and she rose and went about her preparations for the night Then, just as she had taken down her hair and was brushing it in a silver cloud about her shoulders, she heard a car drive up A moment more a key turned in the latch, and some one came in