most surprised voice you ever heard: "I was almost in all evil
in the midst of the congregation and assembly."

"Eleven."

Perhaps these words are in the Bible. They are not there to read
the way Leon repeated them, for he put a short pause after the
first name, and he glanced toward our father: "Jesus Christ, the
SAME, yesterday, and to-day, and forever!"

Sure as you live my mother's shoulders shook.

"Twelve."

Suddenly Leon seemed to be forsaken. He surely shrank in size
and appeared abused.

"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take
me up," he announced, and looked as happy over the ending as he
had seemed forlorn at the beginning.

"Thirteen."

"The Lord is on my side; I will not fear; what can man do unto
me?" inquired Leon of every one in the church. Then he soberly
made a bow and walked to his seat.

Father's voice broke that silence. "Let us kneel in prayer," he
said.