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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: for the axe, and the religious impostors snuffed up the wind
as they drew near.
I have referred above to my grandmother; it was no slip
of the pen: for by an extraordinary arrangement, in which it
is hard not to suspect the managing hand of a mother, Jean
Smith became the wife of Robert Stevenson. Mrs. Smith had
failed in her design to make her son a minister, and she saw
him daily more immersed in business and worldly ambition. One
thing remained that she might do: she might secure for him a
godly wife, that great means of sanctification; and she had
two under her hand, trained by herself, her dear friends and
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