[The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Log School-House on the Columbia CHAPTER XIII 7/15
She sang so beautifully! These were the words: "'In the desert let me labor, On the mountain let me tell.' "When she sung that, it all came to me--what I was--what I was sent into the world to do--what was the cause of your loving me and bringing me out here--I saw a plan in it all.
Then, too, it came to me that you would at first not see the calling as I do, but that you would say _nevertheless_, and help me, and that we would work together, and do some good in the world, you and I.Oh! I saw it all." "Gretchen, did you see all that? Do you think that the spirit has eyes, and that they see true? But how could I begin? The Injuns all hate me." "Make them love you." "How ?" "Say _nevertheless_ to them." "Well, Gretchen, you are a good girl, and I am sorry for the hard things that I have said.
I do not feel that I have shown just the right spirit toward Benjamin.
But he has said that he will not do me any harm, for the sake of his master, and I am willin' to give up my will for my Master.
It is those that give up their desires that have their desires in this world, and anybody who does an injury to another makes for himself a judgment-day of some sort.
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