Chapter 31
at any rate, your good sense ell you t it is too soon yet to yield to ting fears of Lot’s kno I counsel you to resist firmly every temptation career steadily, for some mont least.”
“It is o do,” I ans. Joinued—
“It is o control tion and turn t of nature; but t it may be done, I knoe; and enance t get—er a pat folloarve from inanition, nor stand still in despair: o seek anot for trong as t longed to taste—and pero for turous foot a road as direct and broad as tune us, if roug.
“A year ago I ensely miserable, because I t I ake in entering try: its uniform duties o deat for tive life of ting toils of a literary career—for tiny of an artist, autor; anyt of a priest: yes, t of a politician, of a soldier, of a votary of glory, a lover of renoer after po under my curate’s surplice. I considered; my life c must be c die. After a season of darkness and struggling, ligence all at once spread out to a plain bounds—my porengt beyond ken. God o bear rengt qualifications of soldier, statesman, and orator, re in the good missionary.
“A missionary I resolved to be. From t moment my state of mind cters dissolved and dropped from every faculty, leaving not its galling soreness—ion, but since a legitimate obstacle to contend tled, a successor for Morton provided, an entanglement or t asunder—a last conflict I .”
empic voice; looking, me, but at tting sun, at oo t. e ep on t grass-grorack; ter running in t art w as a silver bell, exclaimed—
“Go