Short pearls of wisdom gleaned from Isabella Alden’s books.
They had been created each for the other; and God—who watches over human lives—had kept them apart and sacred in their loneliness until the hour when they should recognize their oneness. He believed this and yielded to the joy of it, and was as absorbed and as far from wise as any man of his acquaintance had ever been in like circumstances.
—From Pauline
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He will not come into a divided heart; a heart which says, “In some things I will obey; but in this, and this, and this, I must have my own way.”
You would not expect even a human friend who had the right to direct you, to accept such a position as that, would you? How much less the Lord?
—from Eighty-Seven
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God had not left her without witnesses to the worth of the life she was living. She had early found what some Christian workers have yet to learn—that the road to hearts lies oftentimes by way of the most commonplace of domestic duties.
She earned her living by sweeping and dusting and fruit-canning, and a dozen other homely back-door occupations; but she lived in order to show forth the strength and the beauty of a life “hid with Christ in God.”
—from Pauline
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She weighed the possibilities now, much as she might have weighed the question whether she should or should not go to the lecture that evening. Should she take a new stand; begin to pray, to read her Bible, to go to church regularly, and to prayer-meeting, and honestly try to follow Christ? She had never given it careful consideration before, but why should she not? She was tired of all her surroundings; nothing in or about her home or her life was quite as she wished it. Why not have it utterly different? In short, why not try Christianity for all it was worth? She did not settle the question; but as she applied the latch-key to their own door, she almost thought she would.
—from What They Couldn’t
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I think if I could help to lead one person to understand and love the Lord Jesus Christ as much even as I understand Him now, so that He would be that soul’s eternal salvation, it would be ambition enough to fill a lifetime.
—The Hall in the Grove
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A great deal of money and a great deal of force, which might do wonders elsewhere, are wasted on dress.
—Ruth Erskine’s Crosses
You cannot have lived in this world so long without discovering that pain and disappointment of every sort are not happenings, but have their own wise and most important ends to fulfill, though we may be too childish to see the occasion, or understand the remedy.
—Spun from Fact
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Isn’t it a pity in this carping world we cannot oftener put ourselves in other people’s places, mentally, at least, and try to discover how we should probably feel, and talk, and act, were we surrounded by their circumstances and biased by their educations?
—from A New Graft on the Family Tree
If people only would influence each other just as much as they could, and just as high as they could, what a wonderful thing this living would be!
—from A New Graft on the Family Tree
I will give you a general rule, which I have found a great benefit in my Christian life. If you find there is the least doubt in your mind as to the right or wrong of a certain path, give Christ the benefit of the doubt and you will surely be right.
—from Cunning Workmen
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