the words rose in his mind, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” His heart filled. He pondered over them. When he got home he sought and found them in the book.—Did a man ever really utter them? If a man did, either he was the most presumptuous of mortals, or he could do what he said. If he could, then to have seen and distrusted that man, Wingfold felt, would have been to destroy in himself the very faculty to believe and trust for ever after.
