Oh! I wish my poor dear mother were alive! I
have no home to go to. What WILL become of us?"
He lost his patience a little.
"Jane," he said, "what is our religion worth if it does not support
us in times like these? Does it not teach us to bow to God's will?
Surely we, who have had such advantages, ought to behave under our
trials better than those who have been brought up like heathens. God
will not leave us. Don't you remember Mr. Bradshaw's sermon upon the
passage through the Red Sea. When the Israelites were brought down
to the very shore with nothing but destruction before them, a way was
opened. What did Mr. Bradshaw bid us observe? The Egyptians were
close behind--so close that the Israelites saw them; the sea was in
front. The road was not made till the enemy was upon them, and then
the waters were divided and became a wall unto them on their right
hand and on their left; the very waters, Mr. Bradshaw remarked, which
before were their terror. God, too, might have sent them a different
way; no doubt He might, but He chose THAT way."
"Zachariah, I heard Mr. Bradshaw as well as yourself; I am a member
of the church just as much as you are, and I don't think it becoming
of you to preach to me as if you were a minister.
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