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"If they are really qualified for the task, will not their own

hearts be the first to infor round and gathering over me:

I trembled to hear some fatal word spoken which would at once

declare and rivet the spell

"And what does YOUR heart say?" demanded St John

"My heart is mute,--my heart is mute," I answered, struck and

thrilled

"Then I must speak for it," continued the deep, relentless voice

"Jane, come with me to India: colen and sky spun round: the hills heaved! It was as if I had

heard a suer, like him

of Macedonia, had enounced, "Come over and help us!" But I was no

apostle,--I could not behold the herald,--I could not receive his

call

"Oh, St John!" I cried, "have soe of what he believed his

duty, knew neither mercy nor remorse He continued "God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife It is not

personal, but iven you: you are formed

for labour, not for love A missionary's wife you must--shall be