As far as this
world is concerned, my life probably will be an increasing care of
father and others, who, like myself, have, or have had 'a worm i'
the bud.' But be the future what it may, I've made my choice and
I shall abide by it."
Then she turned to the xiv. chapter of St. John, that window of
heaven through which the love of God has shone into so many sad
hearts; and by the time she had read the words--"Peace I leave with
you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto
you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid"--she
found that the peace promised--deep, quiet, sustaining--was stealing
into her heart as the dawn turns night into day. Simple-minded
Ida Mayhew believed that Jesus Christ had kept his word, for that
was all faith meant to her. The rationalist practically maintains
that such effects are without causes, and the materialist explains
that they are physical conditions to be accounted for, by the state
of the nervous system.
Ida went down to supper, and spent the evening with her mother in
the parlor. She resolved to take up her burden at once, and that
there should be no sentimental sighing in solitude.
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