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"Yet surely, Mr Dinwiddie, there come desolations into

people's lives too"

"By the same reason"

"Surely without it sometimes"

"Nay," he said " 'The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants;

and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate' "

"But their lives are empty sometimes?"

"That they may be more full, then Depend on it, the promise

is sure, - they shall not want any good I thing"

"One e then," I said sos"

"Will we not?" said Mr Dinwiddie "Do we know? We ment, too; and then we shall find there is no want

to them that fear him The Lord is my Shepherd! - I shall not

want But the sheep follow the shepherd, and never drea out their own pasture, Miss Daisy"

My voice choked a little and I could not answer And all the

rest of the day I could not get backthe choice ofto their choice with a terrible grasp lest

it should be taken away froht be parted froing to be with hiain, and I atching the

glory of the sunset, turning Jerusale

out rosy and purple and amethyst hues from the Moab mountains,

that my heart leapt back to its rest and I heard the voice of

nature and God again above the din of h advanced, and Mr

Dinwiddie could es and set off northwards It was

hard to go Where many a sorrowful traveller has left his