Therefore
Providence seemed to point out to Mr. and Mrs. Broad that their
course was clear.
CHAPTER XXIV--"I CAME NOT TO SEND PEACE, BUT A SWORD"
Mr. Allen, having business in London, determined to go on Saturday,
and spend the next day with Zachariah. Although he always called on
his old friend whenever he could do so, he was not often away from
home on a Sunday. He also resolved to take George with him.
Accordingly on Saturday morning they were up early and caught a coach
on the North Road. The coaches by this time had fallen off
considerably, for the Birmingham railway was open, and there was even
some talk of a branch through Cowfold; but there were still perhaps a
dozen which ran to places a good way east of the line. Father and
son dismounted at the "George and Blue Boar," where they were to
sleep. Sunday was to be spent with the Colemans, whom George had
seen before but very seldom; never, indeed, since he was a boy.
Zachariah still went to Pike Street Chapel, but only in the morning
to hear Mr. Bradshaw, who was now an old man, and could not preach
twice. On that particular Sunday on which Zachariah, Pauline, Mr.
Allen, and George heard him he took for his text the thirteenth verse
of the twelfth chapter of Deuteronomy: "Take heed to thyself that
thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place thou seest.
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