When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.
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Zum Autor"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
"It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop."
"What secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?"
"Tis what I love determines how I love."
"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."
"It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs."