r this commission, and her heart was
strengthened. The man all this time sat and watched, looking eagerly all
about him, examining the faces of those who went and came: and sometimes
he made a little start as if to go and speak to some one he knew; but
always drew back again and looked at the little Pilgrim, as if he had
said, "This is the one who will serve me best." He spoke to her again
after a while and said, "I suppose you are one of the guides that show
the way."

"No," said the little Pilgrim, anxiously, "I know so little! It is not
long since I came here. I came in the early morning--"

"Why, it is morning now. You could not come earlier than it is now. You
mean yesterday."

"I think," said the Pilgrim, "that yesterday is the other side; there is
no yesterday here."

He looked at her with the keen look he had, to understand her the
better; and then he said--

"No division of time! I think that must be monotonous. It will be
strange to have no night; but I suppose one gets used to everything. I
hope though there is something to do. I have always lived a very busy
life. Perhaps this is just a little pause before we go--to be--to
have--to get our--appointed place."

He had an uneasy look as he said this, and looked at her with an anxious
curiosity, which the little Pilgrim did not understand.

"I do not know," she said softly, shaking her head. "I have so little
experience. I have not been told of an appointed place."

The man looked at her very strangely.

"I did not think," he said, "that I should have found such ignorance
here. Is it not well known that we must all appear before the judgment
seat of God?"

These words seemed to cause a trembling in the still air, and the woman
on the other side raised herself suddenly up, clasping her hands: and
some of those who had just entered heard the words, and came and crowded
about the little Pilgrim, some standing, some falling down upon their
knees, all with their faces turned towards her. She who had always been
so simple and small, so little used to teach; she was frightened with
the sight of all these strangers crowding, hanging upon her lips,
looking to her for knowledge. She knew not what to do or what to say.
The tears came into her eyes.

"Oh," she said, "I do not know anything about a judgment seat. I know
that our Father is here, and that when we are in trouble we are taken to
Him to be comforted, and that our dear Lord our Brother is among us
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