While thus occupied, the window above them opened, and the grocer appeared at it.
"This is, indeed, a sad and striking lesson," he said, "and I hope will not be lost upon those who have witnessed it.

It shows the utter impotency of a struggle against the Divine will, and that when a man relies upon himself for preservation, he depends upon a broken reed.

If I did not place myself under Heaven's protection, I should be sure that all my own precautions were unavailing.

I am now about to call up my family to prayer.

You can join us in our supplications, and I trust they will not be unheard." Closing the window, the grocer retired, and Leonard returned to the hutch, where he fell upon his knees, and as soon as he supposed the family were gathered together, commenced his own prayers.