sixty-second verse, and he read: "What and if ye see the Son of man ascend up to where He was before." She turned to another. It was the twenty-eighth verse of chapter sixteen: "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world and go to the Father." Still she made him read one more, the fifth verse of the seventeenth chapter: "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." "Now, vat does it all mean, Mr. Ames?" "I see your point, Miss Dahl. Christ certainly existed as an intelligent being before He came to this earth--yes, even before the world was." "Certainly; our Savior vas himself as ve. He vas born, He had a body as ve, and He also had a spirit. God is de Fader of His spirit and it existed long ago, as you said. Christ is our Elder Broder. Ve are of de same family. If He existed before de vorld, why not ve? Dat's right, isn't it?" "But couldn't Christ have been the only one who had a pre-existence? I believe something is said in your book about the Savior being the only begotten of the Father." "Yes, in de flesh; dat is true, but God is de Fader of all spirits who have come to dis world to take a body. I can find you many passages to prove it." "Well, I have never thought of these things before, but it must be true if the Bible means what it says. That's a grand principle, Mr. Janson." "It certainly is, Mr. Ames. Many people object to it; but I cannot see, if we are to exist in a spiritual state after we leave this body, why we could not have existed before we entered it--but Signe, here, is the preacher. Her only trouble is with the w's and th's. She can't get them right yet." Signe smiled. "No, Mr. Ames, I'm no preacher. It's all so plain to me. De Bible says ve have a Fader in heaven, and I believe it. I also believe ve have 'a moder der,' as de song says. I can't prove it from de book, but I just use my reason on dat." It was a new experience for Rupert to hear a fair lady expound such doctrine. The whole thing charmed him, both the speaker and that which