"Austin, it affords me much pleasure to see you serving God in your youth.
In giving God your service now you are giving him the best of your life,
and missing much that is sinful in the world."
"I thank God," said Austin, "that I have learned to know him. I do not know
what I should do if I did not have him to comfort me, for many things
perplex me." "I gather from what your brother says of your home-life that
your father is not a servant of God."
"No, my father has never been converted. I long to see him have a change of
heart. His influence would be so much better with the children. But he
seems to care nothing for the things of God, and it is a vexation to him
that I am a Christian."
"I am sorry that it should be so in your family," said Mother Hilman,
sympathetically, adding, "but of course you will stand true to God; for God
makes all such things a help to his children if they will in faith look to
him. Read your Bible much, Austin; and pray fervently, both for yourself
and for your poor father. If you pray for your father with a loving heart,
it will help you to bear more easily the conditions he causes in your home.
And I am glad you find such joy in associating with spiritual people; many
young men, and young women too for that matter, are led astray by wrong
companionships."
"Mrs. Hilman," broke in Austin, "I enjoy the association of young people,
and the friendship of godly young people is to me sweeter than any other
earthly tie.
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