"
"Well, mother, you have given me hope, and I have been comforted by you
'as one whom his mother comforteth.' If the dear girl is not to be won
by Thirsk's title and money, I will see what love can do."
"I'll tell you, John, what love can do"--and she went to a handsome set
of hanging book shelves containing the favorite volumes of Dissent
belonging to John's great-grandfather, Burnet, Taylor, Doddridge,
Wesley, Milton, Watts, quaint biographies, and books of travel. From
them she took a well-used copy of Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying," and
opening it as one familiar with every page, said,
"Listen, John, learn what Love can do.
"Love solves where learning perplexes. Love attracts the best in
every one, for it gives the best, Love redeemeth, Love lifts up,
Love enlightens, Love hath everlasting remembrance, Love advances
the Soul, Love is a ransom, and the tears thereof are a prayer.
Love is life. So much Love, so much Life. Oh, little Soul, if rich
in Love, thou art mighty.
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