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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: principally in London, where he was resident as one of the
chaplains of Edward the Sixth; and here he boasts, although a
stranger, he had, by God's grace, found favour before many.
(1) The godly women of the metropolis made much of him; once
he writes to Mrs. Bowes that her last letter had found him
closeted with three, and he and the three women were all in
tears. (2) Out of all, however, he had chosen two. "GOD," he
writes to them, "BROUGHT US IN SUCH FAMILIAR ACQUAINTANCE,
THAT YOUR HEARTS WERE INCENSED AND KINDLED WITH A SPECIAL
CARE OVER ME, AS A MOTHER USETH TO BE OVER HER NATURAL CHILD;
and my heart was opened and compelled in your presence to be
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