"There have been many days in the past when I didn't believe in God--not as God--only as the impersonal Great First Cause of the scientists.

I believe in Him now--I have to--there's nothing else to fall back on but God--humbly, starkly, unconditionally." "'Our help in ages past'-- 'the same yesterday, to-day and for ever,'" said the minister gently.

"When we forget God--He remembers us." There was no crowd at the Glen Station the next morning to see Walter off.

It was becoming a commonplace for a khaki clad boy to board that early morning train after his last leave.

Besides his own, only the Manse folk were there, and Mary Vance.