otten what I had read.
I seemed to remember having heard of some one called Jesus Christ, but
He meant nothing to me. That was why the reading of the New Testament
was such a revelation.'

'Well, go on,' I said when he stopped.

'Presently I began to pray,' and his voice quivered as he spoke. 'It
was something new to me, but I did it almost unconsciously. You see,
when I left the Y.M.C.A. hut, I had a consciousness that there was a
God, but after I'd read the New Testament----; no I can't explain, I
can't find words! But I prayed, and I felt that God was listening to
me, and presently something new came into my life! It seemed to me as
though some part of my nature which had been lying dormant leapt into
life. I looked at things from a new standpoint. I saw new meanings in
everything. I knew that I was no longer an orphan in the world, but
that an Almighty, All-pervading God was my Father. That He cared for
me, that nothing was outside the realm of His love. I saw what God was
like, too. As I read that story of Jesus, and opened my life to Him,
my whole being was flooded with the consciousness that He cared for me,
that He watched me, and protected me. I saw, too, that there was no
death to the man in whom Christ lived. That the death of the body was
nothing because the man, the essential man lived on,--where I did not
know, did not care, because God was.'

He looked across the sunlit sea as he spoke, and I think he had almost
forgotten me.

'I had an awful time though,' he went on.

'How? In what way?'

'It was when I read the Sermon on the Mount. I could not for a time
see how a Christian could be a soldier. The whole idea of killing men
seemed a violation of Christianity.'

'It is,' I said.

'Yes, in a way you are right, and when I read those words of the Lord
telling us that we must love our enemies, and bless them that cursed
us, I was staggered. Where could there be any Christianity in great
guns hurling men by the thousand into eternity?'

'There isn't,' I persisted.

'That's what I believed at first, but I got deeper presently. I saw
that I had only been looking at the surface of things.'

'How?' I asked. I was curious to see how this man who had forgotten
his past would look at things.

'I found after a daily study of this great Magna Charta of Jesus
Christ, that He meant us to live by the law of love.'

'There's not much living by the law of love over yonder,' I said,
noddi