human
I might well enjoy some of them, she said slowly, as if the different ideas were passing in review before her.
gpt
I love sunshine, and flowers. But there is one thing I love far better.
human
And that is--?
gpt
That is, to do the will of God. There is nothing upon earth that I desire in comparison of Him.
human
Is not that a gloomsome, dismal sort of thing?
gpt
Have you tried it, Mr Louvaine?
human
I have tried a good many things, but not Puritan piety. It ever seemed to me a most weary and dreary matter,--an eternal `Thou shalt not' carved o'er the gate of every garden of delight that I would fain enter. They may be angels that stand there, but they bear flaming swords.
gpt
Don't try piety, she said quietly.
human
Try Jesus Christ instead. There are no flaming swords in the way to Him, and the truest and deepest satisfaction cannot be reached without Him.
gpt
Have you found it thus, Mrs Agnes?
human
I have, Mr Louvaine.
gpt
But, then,--you see,--you have not tried other fashions of pleasure, maybe,
human
Have you?
gpt
Ay--a good many.
human
And did you find them satisfying? I say not, pleasant at the moment, but satisfying?
gpt
Well, that is a large word,
human
It is a large word, was the reply,
gpt
I cannot say, for I have not needed it.
human
That is, you have not been down yet into deep places, methinks, where the floods have overflowed you. I have not visited many, in truth; yet have I been in one or two where I should have lost my footing, had not my Lord held me up.