When we tell her that she
was found in the shrubbery, we will add that we think God sent her to
take care of Constance. I do not believe myself that you can have perfect
service except from a lady. Do not forget the true notion of service as the
essence of Christianity, yea, of divinity. It is not education that unfits
for service: it is the want of it."
"Well, I know that the reading girls I have had, have, as a rule, served me
worse than the rest."
"Would you have called one of those girls educated? Or even if they had
been educated, as any of them might well have been, better than nine-tenths
of the girls that go to boarding-schools, you must remember that they had
never been taught service--the highest accomplishment of all. To that
everything aids, when any true feeling of it is there. But for service of
this high sort, the education must begin with the beginning of the dawn of
will. How often have you wished that you had servants who would believe in
you, and serve you with the same truth with which you regarded them! The
servants born in a man's house in the old times were more like his children
than his servants. Here is a chance for you, as it were of a servant born
in your own house.
Pages:
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114