human
I really expected you sooner, Mrs. Hayden; Kate is more uncertain. One never knows when to look for her; but never mind, we are together again, so come up to the fire and let us get settled for the evening.
gpt
Oh but it is nice to get home occasionally,
human
I only wish you would come oftener Kathie. It seems like the old days to have you here,
gpt
I suspect Kate has a bit of news for us,
human
Yes, and I am to report for duty next week,
gpt
Good for you, Kathie. I always knew the Truth would make your music heard, and as Professor Beal's assistant it will be heard a long way and to good advantage.
human
She is reaping the reward of her trust in the Law, said Mrs. Hayden.
gpt
That is the only thing that will make the working sure.
human
Well Kate, you have trusted surely, and to think what a proof this is!
gpt
How you talk Grace! One might think you had never proven it at all, or that your work didn't bear witness to your own trust,
human
Oh well, girls, my work has been of the silent order altogether, or rather it has consisted more of silence than work. There's no telling how it will show up,
gpt
inasmuch as he had never been quite won over to the Healing, protesting that he had no time for such things, persisting in a good-natured skepticism, although strangely enough he believed a great many things when they were presented without the name of
human
Healing
gpt
Perhaps that very silence is the secret of its showing, for I assure you it shows,
human
Do tell us the way you manage anyway, Grace,
gpt
Why my dear, there's nothing to tell unless it be that a bland silence is a good thing to cultivate. There's no use in making so much of a bugbear of these people who seem to oppose, and the best way to lead them into the green pastures is to let them nibble along the outside until they want to jump the fence and get over in spite of you. Now Leon is really quite hungry to know some things, especially about the practical application of thought to business, but he knows just where and how to find what he wants, so I let him take his own time and his own way.
human
Which will end, of course, in his wanting to know all, providing you have the patience to wait
gpt
That is a foregone conclusion. I _can_ wait, and I will, said Grace.
human
Besides, she continued more soberly,
gpt
I must consider Leon's rights. He should not be forced to a conclusion simply because I hold it. A hot-bed growth, produced by whatever means, will not bear the hardy, healthy bloom of a natural development. He may be slow but he must be true.
human
There Grace, you have touched the keynote, exclaimed Mrs. Hayden warmly.
gpt
It is freedom people need, freedom to think and act the highest, for everybody has a highest.
human
Yes, if they can only keep the channels open for the inspiration of the highest to come to them or work through them,
gpt
What better way is there to give freedom or open the channel, than to destroy prejudice, put away antagonism and--
human
Either in yourself or others, interposed Grace,
gpt
After all, it all hinges upon the non-resistance of evil,
human
Yes, one of the first laws of the beautiful Christlife, and yet one of the very last to be practiced in my experience. I tell you girls, it is the lesson of non-resistance we most need.
gpt
Go on, Mrs. Hayden. If I'm asleep anywhere, I wish you would wake me up,