uld call him when he had need of him;
one by one the children of the family grew up and went their ways; then
his uncle's wife died, and then at last one day, when he was out fishing
with his uncle, there came a squall and they beat for home. But the boat
was overset and his uncle was drowned; and David himself was cast ashore
in a wonderful manner, and found himself all alone.

Now while he doubted what he should do, he dreamed a dream that wrought
powerfully in his mind. He thought that he was walking in the dusk
beside the sea, which was running very high, when he saw a light drawing
near to him over the waves. It was not like the light of a lantern, but
a diffused and pale light, like the moon labouring in a cloud. The sea
began to abate its violence, and then David saw a figure coming to him,
walking, it seemed, upon the water as upon dry land, sometimes lower,
sometimes higher, as the waves ran high or low. He stopped in a great
wonder to watch the approach of the figure, and he saw that it was that
of a young man, going very slowly and tranquilly, and looking about him
with a gentle and smiling air of command. All about him was a light, the
source of which David could not see, but he seemed like a man walking in
the light of an open window, when all around is dark. As he came near,
David saw that he was clad in a rough tunic of some dark stuff, which
was girt up with a girdle at the waist. His head and his feet were bare.
Yet though he seemed but poorly clad, he had the carriage of a great
prince, whose power none would willingly question. But the strangest
thing was that the sea grew calm before his feet, and though the wind
was blowing fiercely, yet it did not stir the hair, which fell somewhat
long on his shoulders, or so much as ruffle his robe. And then there
came into David's head a verse of Scripture where it says, "_What manner
of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey him?_" And then the
answer came suddenly into David's mind, and he knelt down where he was
upon the beach, and waited in a great and silent awe; and presently that
One drew near, and in some way that David did not understand, for he
used no form of speech, his eyes made question of David's soul, and
seemed to read its depths. And then at last He spoke in words that He
had before used to a fisherman beside another sea, and said very softly,
"Follow Me." But He said not how He should be followed; and presently He
seemed to depart in