have anything to complain of."

"But I don't want to stop at home and lead an easy, comfortable life, when
there are so many to help everywhere in the world."

"Is there anything better in doing something where God has not placed you,
than in doing it where he has placed you?"

"No, papa. But my sisters are quite enough for all you have for us to do at
home. Is nobody ever to go away to find the work meant for her? You won't
think, dear papa, that I want to get away from home, will you?"

"No, my dear. I believe that you are really thinking about duty. And
now comes the moment for considering the passage to which you began by
referring:--What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give
yourself the least trouble about. Everything he gives you to do, you must
do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for
what he may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to
do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next. And I do
not believe that those who follow this rule are ever left floundering on
the sea-deserted sands of inaction, unable to find water enough to swim
in."

"Thank you, dear papa. That's a little sermon all to myself, and I think I
shall understand it even when I think about it afterwards. Now let's have a
trot."

"There is one thing more I ought to speak about though, Connie. It is not
your moral nature alone you ought to cultivate. You ought to make yourself
as worth God's making as you possibly can. Now I am a little doubtful