But I fear it
will be awfully up-hill work. The Bible seems to me an old-world
book. Many parts take a strong hold on my imagination, and of
course I know its surpassing literary merit; but I don't find in
it much that seems personally applicable or helpful. Do you? I
admit, though, that when I read words this morning to the effect
that 'a brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand.'
I felt that the good old saint must have had his prophetic eye on
me at the time of writing."
"You are as unjust towards yourself as ever, I see," she said.
"I have found another Psalm that to me meant so much that I have
committed the first part of it to memory. You can understand why
the following words are significant," and in the plaintive tones that
had vibrated so deeply in his heart when she read to Mr. Eltinge,
she repeated:
"I love the Lord because he hath heard my voice and my supplication.
"Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call
upon him as long as I live.
"The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold
upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
"Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee,
deliver my soul.
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