"
"With all due deference to your great comprehension, my
illustrious friend," said I, "it strikes me that you can accomplish
very little either the one way or the other here, in the humble and
private capacity you are pleased to occupy."
"It is your own innate modesty that prompts such a remark," said
he. "Do you think the gaining of you to my service is not an
attainment worthy of being envied by the greatest potentate in
Christendom? Before I had missed such a prize as the attainment
of your services, I would have travelled over one half of the
habitable globe."--I bowed with great humility, but at the same
time how could I but feel proud and highly flattered? He
continued: "Believe me, my dear friend, for such a prize I account
no effort too high. For a man who is not only dedicated to the
King of Heaven in the most solemn manner, soul, body, and
spirit, but also chosen of him from the beginning, justified,
sanctified, and received into a communion that never shall be
broken, and from which no act of his shall ever remove him--the
possession of such a man, I tell you, is worth kingdoms; because,
every deed that he performs, he does it with perfect safety to
himself and honour to me.
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