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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: Divides me from that heavenly place,
Or shuts me up in hell."
So says Wesley's hymn, which we sing evening by evening. What matter
sunshine and walls, men and sheep?
"The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen
are eternal." They are real.
The Bible we bear always in our breast; its pages are our food; we learn to
repeat it; we weep much, for in sunshine and in shade, in the early morning
or the late evening, in the field or in the house, the devil walks with us.
He comes to a real person, copper-coloured face, head a little on one side,
forehead knit, asking questions. Believe me, it were better to be followed
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