The reason for this was difficult to
see by mortal eyes, but now--
"I'm coming again to see you," said David, as he prepared to depart. "I
have so much to tell you; and you,--you have said very little. I must
hear your story too."
"I have no story," said she. "My earth-life was very uneventful. I just
seemed to be waiting--"
"Yes?"
But Rachel was confused. Her simple heart had spoken, and true to
earthly habit, she now tried to cover up her tell-tale words; but he saw
and understood, and as they stood there, his heart burned with a great
joy.
"Good-bye," he said, as he took her hand, "may I come again soon?"
"Yes;" she answered. "I shall be pleased to see more of your beautiful
flower garden."
This was the beginning of a courtship, not the less sweet because it had
been postponed for so long; not the less real, from the fact that the
man and the woman were spiritual beings. "Sin," said the apostle, "is
without the body;" so love and affection are attributes of the spirit,
whether that spirit is within or without a tabernacle of flesh.
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