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Rosa's Quest / Or, The Way to the Beautiful Land

Chapter 9 A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM.

Word Count: 4317    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

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d to keep her as her own little sister, to educate her, to train her in things both tempora

d from the beginning as He can, she was growing positively happy at this unexpected turn of events. It was a part of her religion not to be simply passively s

, was quietly talking to Mrs. Gray of the pr

to his breast, while now and then

e has raged fiercely since Sunday morning, but thanks be to Go

interest in other things. I have prided myself upon my uprightness and morality, considering that I was a worthy example for any to follow, an

that there were two mighty and opposing forces within, each struggling for the supremacy. I did not yield

farther away from God. I have longed for the joy of my first love, but He could

ement and not of firm conviction. I fully realize that I have no power in myself, and that the first moment I look away from Christ I shall fall. I

girl whom God was pleased to use in the breaking of my stony, icy heart. I wish to take her

ling to be my little girl instead of my

his neck and kissed him, while Mrs. Dale s

you," fervently responded the pastor, "l

e Master. Rosa's quest has brought me face to face with the insignificance of this world, and the realities of the next. Her attitude is only what that of every true follower of God should be. Our citizenship is in heaven; from when

ication of the fact that a

a rich and new

w, that she was 'most a-starvin' fer the kind of love she didn't git. How she must have missed her ma! Oh, I've been so awful mean! I don't see how God can fergive me, but I know He has. I never knew'd before that the Saviour is fer sech as me. Tom used to try to tell me, and I wouldn't let him. He wuz good, and I wuzn't. And dear old father! How happy he and T

Mis' Gray," faltered R

d the doctor, "but you may visit Mrs. Gray every week, a

le and

s. They need Him bad to help them, but they don't know He's promised to. And Billy Bruce, the poor laddie, I want to tell him how sorry I am fer a-tryin' to throw that piece of coal at him. His ma's drunk most of the time, and so's his pa. He used to come to me fer somethin' to eat, and I wouldn't give him a thing, but jest scold him and tell

her day, and feel sure that you can bring him around all right. I shall come over often to ass

n guiding since first I saw Rosa that co

in silence, each one buried in thoughts too

octor's shoulder, her lustrous eyes becom

! Mother's there, and don't cough no more. Grandpa's there, and we

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ght of a huge package, entered the car, sitting directly in front of me. She was thinly, though neatly, clad. Her pale face was o

her whole appearance, impelling me to c

and the conversation which followed,

w anything about Jesus

t it seems like I've

in the wilds of Africa. The sad expression of her face did not alt

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se of deep depression, I saw her disappea

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tly more importance to the few brief years spent upon this earth, than to the countless cycles of

y-and-by many a one would doubtless gladly forfeit ten thousand years

he only way in which one may prove his appreciation and loyalty

, saved eternally by the precious blood of God's sacrificial Lamb, but with

influencing them to become more diligent in their search for the

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