18 Flistory of Gutta-Percha Withe,

 

“Then if God works like that all day long, it
must be a fine thing to work,” said Willie.

“You are right. It is a fine thing to work—the
finest thing in the world, if it comes of love, as
God’s work does.”

This conversation made Willie quite determined
.to learn to knit; for if God worked, he would
work too. And although the work he undertook was
a very small work, it was like all God’s great works,
for every loop he made had a little love looped up
in it, like an invisible, softest, downiest lining to
the stockings. And after those, he went on knit-
ting a pair for his father; and indeed, although he
learned to work with a needle as well, and to darn
the stockings he had made, and even tried his
hand at the spinning—of which, however, he could
not make much for a long time—he had not left
off knitting when we come to begin the story in
the next chapter.