Do what I have told you--as if you were once more the puzzled little Bernal, who never could keep his hair neatly brushed like Allan, and would always moon in corners.

Go finish your course.

Another year, when your mind has new fortitude from your recreated body, we will talk these matters as much as you like.

Yet I will tell you one thing to remember--just one, as you have told me one: You are in a world of law, of unvarying cause and effect; and the integrity of this law cannot be destroyed, nor even impaired, by any conceivable rebellion of yours.

Yet this material world of law is but the shadow of the reality, and that reality is God--the moral law if you please, as relentless, as inexorable, as immutable in its succession of cause and effect as the physical laws more apparent to us; and as little to be overthrown as physical law by any rebellion of disordered sentiment.
The word of this God and this Law is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, wherein is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him.
"Now," continued the old man, more lightly, "each of us has something to remember--and let each of us pray for the other.