Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy
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his servants--scientific men--all abroad through nature to gather facts
with which to illustrate the Bible." Marion began to write again, but it was only in snatches here and there; not that there was not that which she longed to catch, but she could not write it--the sentences just poured forth; and how perfectly aglow with light and beauty they were! This one sentence she presently wrote: "In the black ink of his power God wrote the Book of nature; in the red ink of his love he wrote the Bible; and all this _power_ is to bring us all to this _love_. Oh, to rest in arms like these! Are they not strong enough?" Suddenly Marion closed her book and slipped her pencil into her pocket; she could not write. And although she thrilled through every nerve over the majestic sentences that followed and was carried to a pitch of enthusiasm almost beyond her control, when the jubilant thunder of thousands of voices rang together in the matchless closing words, "Blessing, and glory, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God, forever and ever. Amen." She made no further attempt to write; her heart was full; there rang in it this eager cry, "Oh, to rest in arms like these!" Strong enough? Aye, indeed! Doubts were forever set at rest. The Maker of all nature could be none other than God, and the God of nature was the God of the Bible. It was as clear as the sunlight. Reason was forever satisfied, but there lingered yet the hungering cry, "Oh, to rest in arms like these!" And Flossy said not a word to her of the resting place. Not because she had not found it strong and safe; not because she did not long to have |
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