You've made me understand, sir!"
"I am glad of that, Isy! You see I know some things that make me very glad,
and so I want them to make you glad too. And the thing that makes me
gladdest of all, is just that God is what he is. To know that such a One is
God over us and in us, makes of very being a most precious delight. His
children, those of them that know him, are all glad just because he _is_,
and they are his children. Do you think a strong man like me would read
sermons and say prayers and talk to people, doing nothing but such
shamefully easy work, if he did not believe what he said?"
"I'm sure, sir, you have had hard enough work with me! I am a bad one to
teach! I thought I knew all that you have had such trouble to make me see!
I was in a bog of ignorance and misery, but now I am getting my head up out
of it, and seeing about me!--Please let me ask you one thing, sir: how is
it that, when the thought of God comes to me, I draw back, afraid of him?
If he be the kind of person you say he is, why can't I go close up to
him?"
"I confess the same foolishness, my child, _at times_," answered the
minister.
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