CHAPTER Six.
"If any man cometh unto me and hateth not his own father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." "And whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." WHEN Rachel Winslow and Virginia Page separated after the meeting at the First Church on Sunday they agreed to continue their conversation the next day.

Virginia asked Rachel to come and lunch with her at noon, and Rachel accordingly rang the bell at the Page mansion about half-past eleven.

Virginia herself met her and the two were soon talking earnestly.
"The fact is," Rachel was saying, after they had been talking a few moments, "I cannot reconcile it with my judgment of what Christ would do.

I cannot tell another person what to do, but I feel that I ought not to accept this offer." "What will you do then ?" asked Virginia with great interest.
"I don't know yet, but I have decided to refuse this offer." Rachel picked up a letter that had been lying in her lap and ran over its contents again.

It was a letter from the manager of a comic opera offering her a place with a large traveling company of the season.