"
"A youthful Methusaleh might make that objection; but your years are too
few to pause while making a selection."
"At first when I came to Oaklands, I was perplexed to know how the long
days and years were to be occupied."
"Have you since then found for yourself a career?"
"I am finding an abundance of work, if I only am willing to do it."
"You must not get so absorbed in deeds of charity that you forget the
duties belonging to yourself and position. Oaklands may not always be
your home, with its pastoral enjoyments. You should endeavor to fit
yourself for wider and higher spheres of action."
"In the meantime, however, my life must be got through some way. If I can
help others to be happier, surely my time cannot be quite wasted; and I
may the easier render my final account."
"Ah, that's a perplexing question--our final settlement for the deeds of
this life."
I looked my surprise at his tone of voice.
"You have not learned yet, Medoline, to doubt. Very well, never begin.
It's horrible having no sure anchor to hold by when death forces one into
unknown oceans, or shipwrecks with annihilation."
"Death never can do that, if we trust in Christ, who turned our last
enemy into a blessed angel."
"Your faith is very beautiful, and is, no doubt, sufficient for your
utmost intellectual needs; and by all means hold to it as you would to
your life."
"I think it is the same that St. Paul, and Martin Luther, and John
Milton, and a thousand, yes a million other noblest intellects, held
firmly.
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