[Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookLaddie CHAPTER VI 25/32
I never yet have known any man or woman who attempted it who did not waste life's grandest opportunities, and then come crawling and defeated to the foot of the cross in the end, asking God's mercy where none was deserved or earned.
It seems to me a craven way.
I know all about the forgiveness on the cross! I know God is big enough and merciful enough to accept even death-bed repentance, but what is that to compare with laying out your course and running it a lifetime without swerving? I detest and distrust this infidel business.
I want no child of mine under its influence, or in contact with it." "But when your time comes, if you said just those things to hers and won her, what a triumph, little mother!" "'If!'" answered mother.
"That's always the trouble! One can't be sure! 'If' I knew I could accomplish that, I would get on my knees and wrestle with the Lord for the salvation of the soul of a girl like that, not to mention her poor, housebound mother, and that man with the unhappiest face I ever have seen, her father.
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