. Hubbel said 
" The Christian never grows old." 



62 SUMMER DRIFT-WOOD. 

I told grandpapa's words to Jack, and we 
wondered what his  had been. I 
think Aunt Mary knows ; but whatever it 

was, he is all  now.  ! It is, 

I think, almost the most beautiful earth word 
we have. Jack calls it " Christ's seal word." 
He says Ruskin writes : " The death bequest 
of Christ to man is ." And then Jack 
told me it seemed to him when we gave 
our  to Christ, He wrote upon them, 

" ," not " Rest." I never thought 

of it so before. I always read the verse, 
" Come unto me and I will give you rest," 
as an invitation to come now to Jesus. But 
Jack says he does not read it so. " Rest," 
he says, "remaineth for the people of God" 
the blessed dead which die in the Lord. 
" Yea, saith the , they rest from their 
labors." . But , the  of God, which 
passeth understanding, of which Christ said, 
"  I leave with you my  I give 
unto you," belongs to us, for these pilgrim 

days. The  promises, Jatk says, 

form to him