There, not in an abandonment of grief, but in loving and grateful remembrance of her whose dust the little grave now held, of what she had been to them, and had done for them, they spent the day, returning to take up again with hearts solemn, tender and chastened, the daily routine of life.
That his son should grow to take up the profession of law had been the father's dream, but during his university course the boy had come under the compelling influence of a spiritual awakening that swept him into a world filled with new impressions and other desires.

Obeying what he felt to be an imperative call, the boy chose the church as his profession, and after completing his theological course in the city of Winnipeg, and spending a year in study in Germany, while still a mere youth he had been appointed as missionary to the district of which his own village was the centre.
But though widely separate from each other in the matter of religion, there were many points of contact between them.

They were both men of the great out-of-doors, and under his father's inspiration and direction the boy had come to love athletic exercises of all kinds.

They were both music-mad, the father having had in early youth a thorough musical education, the boy possessing musical talent of a high order.

Such training as was his he had received from his father, but it was confined to one single instrument, the violin.