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"How am I to begin? Which am I to begin with?"
"There is one commandment which includes all the rest."
"Which is that?"
"To believe in the Lord Jesus Christ."
"That's cant."
"After thirty years' trial of it, it is to me the essence of wisdom.
It has given me a peace which makes life or death all but indifferent
to me, though I would choose the latter."
"What am I to believe about Him, then?"
"You are to believe _in_ Him, not about Him."
"I don't understand."
"He is our Lord and Master, Elder Brother, King, Saviour, the divine
Man, the human God: to believe in Him is to give ourselves up to Him
in obedience--to search out his will and do it."
"But there's no time, I tell you again," the marquis almost shrieked.
"And I tell you there is all eternity to do it in. Take Him for your
master, and He will demand nothing of you which you are not able to
perform. This is the open door to bliss. With your last breath you can
cry to Him, and He will hear you as He heard the thief on the cross,
who cried to Him dying beside him: 'Lord, remember me when Thou comest
into Thy kingdom.'--'To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.' It
makes my heart swell to think of it, my lord. No cross-questioning of
the poor fellow, no preaching to him. He just took him with Him where
He was going, to make a man of him."
"Well, you know something of my history: what would you have me do
now?--at once, I mean.
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