He loves us with an everlasting love. No false
mother can destroy a child's soul, but she can destroy its flesh and so
retard and interfere with its eternal growth. This is the great sin--the
sin of blood-guiltiness--any woman may commit it."
"You talk sheer nonsense, John. I do not believe anything you say."
Then John went to a large Bible lying open on a table. "Listen, then,"
he said, "to the Word of God"; and with intense solemnity he read aloud
to her the wonderful verses in the one-hundred-and-thirty-ninth Psalm,
between the twelfth and seventeenth, laying particular stress on the
sixteenth verse, "'Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect;
and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were
fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.' So then Jane, dear Jane,
you see from the very, very first, when as yet no member of the child
had been formed it was _written down in God's Book_ as a man or a woman
yet to be. All souls so written down, are the children of the Most High.
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