y grand! You must
take care of yourself too."

"'No! I don't feel very well,' he said. 'I've been feeling my age a bit
lately,' he said laughing.

"'I'll look in to-morrow again,' I said as I went away, and about the
same time next day I went back to find him sitting still on one side of
the fireplace and the wife on the other. The girl had died suddenly in
the night. They'd got the photograph of the little grandchildren, and I
could see the old woman had been crying.

"'We shan't see them in this world now,' said Joe.

"I thought he was considering the money and began to talk.

"'No!' he said, 'it isn't that. The money was a bit of a sacrifice at
the time, but I can see now why He asked me for it, and how thankful I
am, as things have turned out, that I didn't refuse to do that little
thing for Him. After you'd gone yesterday,' he went on, 'I felt so
poorly that when the doctor came to see that poor girl I told him what I
felt like. He looked a bit queer at first, and then he said:

"'"Well, Joe," he said, "I know very well that you're not afraid of
death, so I won't beat about the bush," he said.

"'Thank you, doctor,' I said.

"'"Of course," he said, "I can't be certain, but I'm afraid it's cancer,
and I can only say that I'll make it as easy for you as I can." He's a
kind man, Mr Charter, though he's reckoned rough. Well, you can imagine
how my first feeling was of thankfulness that I'd been kept in the love
of God, and not held back for my own pleasure the money he was needing.
_He_ knew, you see, that I shouldn't want it, and he sent that poor girl
to be looked after by someone as had money to spare.

'"I'll bless the Hand that guided,
I'll bless the Heart that planned,
When throned where glory dwelleth,
In Immanuel's Land."

So my summons is come, Mr Charter, though I'd no idea it was so near.'

"There's not a great deal you can say at such times, and my heart was
very full as I listened to him, though I knew that it was well with him.
I'm not going to tell you about the way he went through the valley,
beautiful though it was, but I'll tell you just this before I sit down.
Those young men of Joe's Sunday class got together and talked, and
though they were young working-men with not much of a wage, they each
gave sixpence a week and the old man had ten shillings a week as long as
he lived, and every time he got the ten shillings he'd cry, and say,
that he didn't know anybody in the world who'