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let all your thoughts in such matters
be referred to God. Put yourself under
His care. Don't, if you can avoid it,
think or [...] yourself about your
future; but do not be ashamed, at
your early age, to ask Him that this
may be His care. Ask Him that if
He wishes you to marry He may guide
you to the man to whose care He will
entrust you, and whose happiness
and home it may be your privilege
to make. To be dwelling on
and waking to marriage continually
is morbid; but to be daily commending
yourself to Him is but prudent; for,