MATCHED PEARLS by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [Hill, Grace Livingston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620299975
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

It was remarkable what a hold that little book got on Constance. She was almost afraid to go up to her room at night because she knew inevitably she would read that book; afraid to wake up in the morning because there was the book again, and she had made a kind of pact with her conscience that she would read it night and morning. She was making a virtue of it, building up good works to atone for the past hypocrisy.

On the other hand she was filling her days and evenings just as full as could be, far into the small hours, to keep from having to think, for the little book was slowly, steadily getting her. She had begun to know that she was a sinner! Not just to fear it but to know it.

The Bible had never been an unknown book to her. She had been sent to Sunday school as a child, had gone to church regularly until she went away to school, had been taught many Bible stories at her grandmother’s knee, but never had the old truths of sin and death and salvation through the atoning blood been made very plain to her until that memorable night when she heard Seagrave explain it all to Doris in those few breathless moments while Death tarried at the door to take her.

Oh, she had known these things in a general way, but not in any way that touched herself at all, so that when she came under the influence of unbelief it had done its withering work quickly, and what little truth had been implanted in her heart when young had soon died out. But now, just reading that book and hearing an echo of the clear, believing voice that had spoken some of those words into dying ears seemed to bring her a strange new knowledge of God. She hadn’t as yet much knowledge of what it was all about. The plan of salvation was but vague, the reason for it vaguer, but somehow what she gleaned from the little book was more disturbing than she cared to own even to herself, and to antidote it she plunged into the world with all her might.

She had kept her word and worked things so that Frank and Dillie had an entrée into the country club, although the younger set were as a rule frowned upon and discouraged from taking their recreation there. But as soon as her brother was fairly launched on a safe little friendship with Dillie, a sweet, shy, capable little girl of fine instincts, Constance got herself a throng of friends and began to amuse herself.

It is true that what she did was not often amusing to her, was seldom as interesting as she had hoped it would be, but it filled her days to exhaustion, so that at night she could fall asleep in spite of disturbing scripture faithfully read with eyes that blinked with sleepiness. But somehow she managed to

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