This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...Martha, it had only done so by perniissiou from the Holy Ghost. When he had prayed for union with his beloved, it was only after waiting for u sign and seeing that such was the will of God. Not my will, hut Thine be done, had been the burden of every plea which he put up. Twice or thrice as he lay in pain, a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...Martha, it had only done so by perniissiou from the Holy Ghost. When he had prayed for union with his beloved, it was only after waiting for u sign and seeing that such was the will of God. Not my will, hut Thine be done, had been the burden of every plea which he put up. Twice or thrice as he lay in pain, a doubt would creep into his soul: might not his love for Martha, and his love for God, conflict? What if he should receive a sign? Could he give up his fair one, his sister, his spouse? Dark and long had been the hours in which these questions tormented the student's soul. Could lie give up his spiritual bride at the call of God? Of earthly things he had yearned for nothing as he panted nftor her. Even while ho sat in church, while lie knelt in prayer, lie hud felt her presence in his brain. Sho had became his second spiritual self. lie felt that bo could neither live nor die without her; aiid it seemed to him as though heaven itself could hardly he won, or thoroughly enjoyed, unless they gained it together; entering upon it in that strange and complex relation in which they had come to stand towards each other in the spirit, as mother and son, us father and daughter, us bridegroom and bride. They had married in Bath, and spent their honeymoon at Clifton. Long in the feeblest health, the aged woman and her youthful partner had been equally nipt and awed by the reviving power which love and idleness may exert upon this frame of clay. Best from hard work, rides on the breezy down, and rambles by the winding stream, had told their tale in more buoyant spirits and less pallid cheeks. Tho student and his wife hud gone down from Clifton to Lampeter, renewed in life and purified in soul; the bridals into which they had entered being pure and holy;...
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