It was 'The Pilgrim's Progress;' and this was the passage I lighted
upon: 'The Pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber facing the
sunrising. The name of the chamber was Peace.' There was a pencil-mark
against the passage, and I fancy John Wesley put it there. It was a
little thing, but it has made me very happy."
"I can understand."
"God bless you, child! I am sure you can."
CHAPTER III.
"He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him
in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him." Psa. xci, 15.
"Alas for hourly change! Alas for all
The loves that from his hand proud Youth lets fall,
Even as the beads of a told rosary!"
That very day Richard received a letter from Bishop Elliott. He was
going to the Holy Land and wished Richard to join him in Rome, and
then accompany him to Palestine. Richard preferred to remain at Hallam,
but both Elizabeth and Phyllis thought he ought to respond to the
Bishop's desire. He was an aged man among strangers, and, apart from
inclination, it seemed to be a duty to accede to his request. So rather
reluctantly Richard left Hallam, half-inclined to complain that
Elizabeth was not sorry enough to part with him. In truth she was
conscious of feeling that it would be pleasant to be a little while
alone with the great joy that had come to her; to consider it quietly,
to brood over it, and to ask some questions of her soul which it must
answer very truthfully.
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