[Donal Grant by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookDonal Grant CHAPTER XVIII 14/16
I do not know where it will stop, I only know where it will not stop.
That thing is me, and God will keep on making it bigger to all eternity, though he has not even got it into the right shape yet." "Why is he so long about it ?" "I don't think he is long about it; but he could do it quicker if I were as good as by this time I ought to be, with the father and mother I have, and all my long hours on the hillsides with my New Testament and the sheep.
I prayed to God on the hill and in the fields, and he heard me, Davie, and made me see the foolishness of many things, and the grandeur and beauty of other things.
Davie, God wants to give you the whole world, and everything in it.
When you have begun to do the things Jesus tells you, then you will be my brother, and we shall both be his little brothers, and the sons of his Father God, and so the heirs of all things." With that he turned again and went. The tears were rolling down Arctura's face without her being aware of it. "He is a well-meaning man," she said to herself, "but dreadfully mistaken: the Bible says believe, not do!" The poor girl, though she read her bible regularly, was so blinded by the dust and ashes of her teaching, that she knew very little of what was actually in it.
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