And I fear sometimes that you seek to take upon yourself more than you wot of--more than you are able.

My preaching is sweet unto you now, for that no persecution is laid upon you.

But the time will come--of that I am well assured, and that period peradventure shortly--when, if ye continue to live godly therein, God will lay upon you the cross of persecution, to try whether you, as pure gold, can abide the fire." "I know it! I am ready!" cried Dalaber, with the characteristic backward motion of his head.

His face was like the face of a young eagle.

He was quivering from head to foot.
Clarke looked at him again with his fatherly smile, but there was trouble also in his eyes.
"Be not over confident, my son; and seek not to take upon you more than you are able to bear." Dalaber understood instantly to what Clarke was alluding.
"I trust I have not done so.