[The Man From Glengarry by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookThe Man From Glengarry CHAPTER XV 8/35
You will be like her, Maimie," and, after a pause, she added, softly, "And, most of all, she loved her Saviour, and that was the secret of both her beauty and her goodness." "Auntie," said Harry, suddenly, "don't you think you could come to us for a visit? It would do father--I mean it would be such a great thing for father, and for me, too, for us all." Mrs.Murray thought of her home and all its ties, and then said, smiling: "I am afraid, Harry, that could hardly be.
Besides, my dear boy, there is One who can always be with you, and no one can take His place." "All the same, I wish you could come," said Harry.
"When I am here I feel like doing something with my life, but at home I only think of having fun." "But, Harry," said his aunt, "life is a very sacred and very precious thing, and at all costs, you must make it worthy of Him who gave it to you." Next morning, when Harry was saying "Farewell" to his aunt, she put her arms round him, and said: "Your mother would have wished you to be a noble man, and you must not disappoint her." "I will try, auntie," he said, and could say no more. For the next few weeks the minister and his wife were both busy and anxious.
For more than eight years they had labored with their people without much sign of result.
Week after week the minister poured into his sermons the strength of his heart and mind, and then gave them to his people with all the fervor of his nature.
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