"But perhaps she is worldly-wise. No, not even so. For the world that God set us in is not summed up in sensations and excitements. These kill our interest in the finer world.- that is known to our sensibilities and intuitions. And meantime watch her deterioration as she thinks to move up in the world. In -strainng after the richer set she is hardened by the lights and snubs she receives, and in forsaking her old friends she is still more hardened by those she "inflicts. These: things are not good for true pride and honour, for a peaceful mind, a loving heart and a Christian faith.
Then God may have given her children—another sign that this world is not built for "a good time." Children are a handicap on a life of self-pleasing. They are like commandments of God forbidding it. Neglect them and there are consequences, such as Mr. Hutchinson has drawn out in his recent book, for what God has joined together by bonds of obligation none can sunder with impunity.
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