you yourself will be living for ever.
Dear friends," she said, speaking to all of us, "I want each of you to
ask this question: What about my soul? Is it safe?"

'Then she told us, grandmother, that we were travelling through an
enemy's country; Satan and his evil spirits wanted to get our treasure.
She told us we could not keep our soul safe ourselves; if we tried we
should certainly lose it, as she would have lost her ring. "And oh, dear
friends," she said, "what shall it profit you, if you gain the whole
world, and lose your own soul?"'

'Well, she was right there, my dear,' said grandmother.

'"Now, then," she says, "I want you to do as you advised me to do. I
want you to get some one to keep your treasure for you--some one who is
able, some one who is willing; who shall it be?"

'"I suppose you mean the Lord, ma'am," said old Betty.

'"Yes," she said, "I mean the Lord Jesus. He is able, for He has all
power; He is willing, for He died on purpose that He might do so. Won't
you trust your treasure to Him?" she said. "Won't you go straight to
Him, and say, Lord Jesus, here is my soul; I can't keep it myself; Satan
wants to get it for his own. I trust it to Thee; I commit it to Thee to
be saved."

'Well, grandmother,' said Poppy's mother, 'I didn't forget what she
said, and that night, when John Henry had gone upstairs to bed, I knelt
down in the kitchen, and trusted my soul to the Lord Jesus to be saved,
because He had died for me; I put my soul in His hands, grandmother, and
I know He will keep it safe.'

'Well, my dear,' said grandmother, 'it's to be hoped He will.'

'I _know_ He will, grandmother; I don't doubt Him,' said Poppy's
mother. 'Miss Lloyd taught us a verse about that: "I know whom I have
believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have
committed unto Him against that day." And she said if we were to begin
doubting that our soul was safe when we had taken it to Jesus to be
saved, it would be the same as saying we did not trust Him. "What would
you think," she said, "if I were to be saying all the time I was away
Oh, dear me, I'm afraid I shall never see my ring again; I'm afraid it
isn't safe after all?"

'"Why, ma'am," said old Betty, "you'll excuse me saying so, but I should
think you was very rude to Mr. Lloyd, and if I was there I should give
you a bit of my mind; you mustn't be offended at me saying so," says
Betty, "but I should indeed."

'"And what would you say, Bet