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right enough. No doubt about that. Then it occurred to
me that this woman must have experienced something
out of the ordinary. I ought to have seen that the first
time I met her, fool that I was. But the trouble is that
great souls always deceive us by appearing so very, very
common.
“You have experienced a great deal in your life.
Grandma, I am sure,” said I, this time very gently.
She smiled a pleasant, quaint smile. “A person with
eighty years behind him naturally has. Yet I suppose
what I have experienced a good many others have. The
Lord has been very good to me, yes, very. Of course,
there have been some dark and stormy days.”
“I am sure yon have suffered much,” I put in.
“Why speak of suffering?” she continued. “I am afraid
you have not gathered many scraps of wisdom yet. Life
is not sorrow and suffering; life is joy.” The last words
came very softly, yet with the conviction that no one could
gainsay.
Might as well own up I was ashamed. Here was I, a
mere inexperienced youngster talking of suffering and
sorrow to this woman of eighty.
I believe she felt my embarrassment, for, as if to put
me at ease again, she went on: “The first real sorrow
I ever had was when I was preparing for confirmation.
You see, I thought such a great deal of the minister; and
kind and gentle he was to us children. It was my
highest ambition not to get stuck in anything that he might
ask me; and you may be sure I knew my books too. But
one day — I remember it as well as if it were yesterday —
he asked me if I knew from Scripture when the day of
judgment was to come. I had the answer ready, but it
seemed to me that it couldn’t be the right one, so I did
not dare say it. He looked at me in a rather surprised
way as if he had expected me to know, and then
answered it himself: ‘And the Gospel of the Kingdom shall
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