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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

patient with their constant fear of what "might happen any time" to Christians living under Moslem rule. I had no conception of what "might happen any time" that was why. During the singing, I looked up to the ceiling. The trap-door brought back vividly the day when Daddy Christie had showed it to me, say- ing, "We have that for use in time of massa- cre." I had laughed. The constitutional era was here. Those were things of the past. Probably it is a mercy that youth and inexperi- ence make one refuse to believe that bad things horrible things which have happened to oth- ers may come in one's own life.

We sang softly (for the sound must not get outside) "Lead, Kindly Light." The hymn had never meant so much to me. For, until now, there never had been "encircling gloom." I understand now. Because I need the Light, I ask for it.

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