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When Seth had once begun to urge his suit, he went on earnestly and almost hurriedly, lest Dinah should speak souments he had prepared His cheeks becarey eyes filled with tears, and his voice trembled as he spoke the last sentence They had reached one of those very narrow passes between two tall stones, which performed the office of a stile in Loamshire, and Dinah paused as she turned towards Seth and said, in her tender but calm treble notes, "Seth Bede, I thank you for your love towards me, and if I could think of any man as more than a Christian brother, I think it would be you But ood for other wo to be a wife and mother; but 'as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every man, so let him walk' God has called me to minister to others, not to have any joys or sorrows of my own, but to rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to ith those that weep He has called reatly ownedthat I could leave the brethren and sisters at Snowfield, who are favoured with very little of this world's good; where the trees are few, so that a childfor the poor in the winter It has been given then the little flock there and to call in s fro down My life is too short, and God's work is too great fora home for myself in this world I've not turned a deaf ear to your words, Seth, for when I saw as your love was given toof Providence for e my way of life, and that we should be fellow-helpers; and I spread the matter before the Lord But whenever I tried to fix hts always ca, and the happy hours I've had preaching, when iven to me abundantly And when I've opened the Bible for direction, I've always lighted on some clear word to tell me where my work lay I believe what you say, Seth, that you would try to be a help and not a hindrance to e is not God's will--He draws my heart another way I desire to live and die without husband or children I seem to have no room in my soul for wants and fears of my own, it has pleased God to fill s of his poor people"