Even after he had gone back to his father,
had he not appeared to the apostle Paul? and might it not be that he had
shown himself to many another through the long ages? In any case he was
everywhere, and always about them, although now, perhaps from lack of faith
in the earth, he had not been seen for a long time. And she remembered her
father once saying that nobody could even _think_ a thing if there was no
possible truth in it. The Lord went away that they might believe in him
when out of the sight of him, and so be in him, and he in them!
"I dinna think," said Maggie aloud to herself, as she trudged along beside
the delightfully silent Andrew, "that my father would be the least
astonished--only filled wi' an awfu' glaidness--if at ony moment, walkin at
his side, the Lord was to call him by his name, and appear til him. He
would but think he had just steppit oot upon him frae some secret door, and
would say,--'I thoucht, Lord, I would see you some day! I was aye greedy
efter a sicht o' ye, Lord, and here ye are!'"
CHAPTER V
The same moment to her ears came the cry of an infant.
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