[Story of Chester Lawrence by Nephi Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookStory of Chester Lawrence CHAPTER II 12/20
Sometime, somewhere, every man and every woman will come to his own, whether in life or death, in this world, or the next." "Thank you for saying that.
Do you know, I am now glad that Julia did not yield to my entreaties, and marry me out of pity.
Think how I would have felt when the realization of that had come to me.
* * * * I found this expression of Stevenson the other day, purporting to be a test of a man's fortitude and delicacy: 'To renounce where that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered.' Thank the Lord, I am not embittered.
Some time ago I chose this declaration of Paul for my motto: 'But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.'" The light of a soul of peace shone from the countenance of the young man.
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