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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: breaking. No stronger plea could have been made than the allusion to those
gentle, dependent Christians. No one but a missionary could realize the
sweetness, the simplicity, the faith, the eager hope for a good, true life
which had been implanted in the hearts of these Indians. To bear it in mind,
to think of what he, as a missionary and teacher, was to them, relieved him of
half his burden, and for strength to bear the remainder he went to God. For
all worry there is a sovereign cure, for all suffering there is a healing
balm; it is religious faith. Happiness had suddenly flashed with a
meteor-like radiance into Young's life only to be snuffed out like a candle in
a windy gloom, but his work, his duty remained. So in his trial he learned the
necessity of resignation. He chaffed no more at the mysterious, seemingly
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