“What then is the Christian warfare? You know that grand old St. Paul had to fight to the last, that he might not be a cast-away. Yet I think no one ever doubted the genuineness of his conversion.”
“But if a man of his own determination, resolved, he could do a great deal.”
“I should be weak to deny it. People have achieved heroic victories, suffered pain and shame and death bravely for pride, or some chosen idea. Only when it is done for the sake of Him who saved us, it becomes so much the more noble. It is obeying Him.”
“Is it an easy thing to be good, Miss Endicott?”
“Not for every one,” I said.
“You admit that natures are different?”
“I do, cheerfully. Some people have very little self-control, others a great deal. But it is strengthened by use, like a limb.”
“I have very little?”
“I did not say that.”
“But you know I have.”