The professorship would be free from the incessant worry and anxiety of a parish, and then I might be just as useful in the Seminary as I am here--who knows ?" "Who knows, indeed!" exclaimed Sarah, joyfully; at the same time she was almost crying.

She picked up the letter and called Philip's attention to the clause which granted him a year abroad in case he accepted.

"Think of that, Philip! Your dream of foreign travel can come true now." "That is," Philip looked out of the window over the dingy roof of a shed near by to the gloomy tenements, "that is, supposing I decide to accept." "Supposing! But you almost same as said----Oh, Philip, say you will! Be reasonable! This is the opportunity of a lifetime!" "That's true," replied Philip.
"You may not have another such chance as this as long as you live.

You are young now and with every prospect of success in work of this kind.
It is new work, of the kind you like.

You will have leisure and means to carry on important experiments, and influence for life young men entering the ministry.