"Yes, he said, 'Father' had commanded him to go into the wilderness to
fast. He was always talking familiarly with 'Father,' as we walked. So I
stayed by him longer than I meant to--he seemed so helpless--and I
happened at that time to be looking for the true God."

"Did you find him, Bernal?"

"Oh, yes!"

"In this strange man?"

"In myself. It's the same old secret, Nance, that people have been
discovering for ages--but it is a secret only until after you learn it
for yourself. The only true revelation from God is here in man--in the
human heart. I had to be years alone to find it out, Nance--I'd had so
much of that Bible mythology stuffed into me--but I mustn't bore you
with it."

"Oh, but I must know, Bernal--you don't dream how greatly I need at this
moment to believe _something_--more than you ever did!"

"It's simple, Nance. It's the only revelation in which the God of
yesterday gives willing place to the better God of to-day--only here
does the God of to-day say, 'Thou shalt have no other God before me but
the God of to-morrow who will be more Godlike than I. Only in this way
can we keep our God growing always a little beyond us--so that to-morrow
we shall not find ourselves surpassing him as the first man you would
meet out there on the street surpasses the Christian God even in the
common virtues. That was the fourth dimension of religion that I wanted,
Nance--faith in a God that a fearless man could worship."