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Sowing and Reaping

CHAPTER IX
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If others believed because they had never doubted, she believed because she had doubted and her doubts had been dispelled by the rays of heaven, and believing, she had entered into rest.

Feeling that she was bought with a price, she realized that she was not her own, but the captive of Divine Love, and that her talents were not given her to hide beneath a bushel or to use for merely selfish enjoyments.

That her time was not her own to be frittered away by the demands of fashion or to be spent in unavailing regrets.

Every reform which had for its object the lessening of human misery, or the increase of human happiness, found in her an earnest ally.

On the subject of temperance she was terribly in earnest.
Every fiber of her heart responded to its onward movement.


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