The day was done; and on
the morrow new work must be entered upon. The path of the commandments
had yet to be trodden, step by step, through temptation and conflict,
and weakness and weariness, until the end was reached.
Stephen felt something of this as he walked home for the last time to
the cinder-hill cabin; and, taking down the old Bible covered with green
baize, read aloud to his grandfather and Martha the chapter his father
had taught him on his death-bed; bending his head in deep and humble
prayer after he had read the last verse: 'Be ye therefore perfect, even
as your Father in heaven is perfect.'
THE END.
* * * * *
STORIES BY HESBA STRETTON.
Cobwebs and Cables.
Half Brothers.
Through a Needle's Eye.
Carola.
Bede's Charity.
David Lloyd's Last Will.
The Children of Cloverley.
Fern's Hollow.
The Fishers of Derby Haven.
Pilgrim Street.
A Thorny Path.
Enoch Roden's Training.
In the Hollow of His Hand.
_The Religious Tract Society, London_.
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