A Talk with Mr Shepherd. 171

 

“Ah! I see, I see! Ves, the medicine for the
heart must go in at the ears.”

“Not necessarily. It might go in at the eyes.
Jesus gave it at the eyes, for doubting hearts, when
He said—Consider the lilies,—consider the ravens.”

“At the ears, too, though,” said Willie; “just as
papa sometimes gives a medicine to be taken and
to be rubbed in both.”

“Only the ears could have done nothing with
the words if the eyes hadn’t taken in the things
themselves first. But where does this medicine go
to, Willie?”

“T suppose it must go to the heart, if that’s the
place wants healing.”

“ Does it go to what a doctor would call the heart,
then?”

“No, no; it must go to what—to what a clergy-
man—to what you call the heart.”

“ And which heart is nearer to the person him-
self?”

Willie thought for a moment, then answered,
merrily—

“Why, the doctor’s heart, to be sure!”

“No, Willie; you ’re wrong there,” said Mr Shep-
herd, looking, as he felt, a little disappointed.

“Oh yes, please!” said Willie; “I ‘m almost sure
I’m right this time.”

sf No, Willie; what the clergyman calls the heart

is the nearest ts the man himself.”
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