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23. Active efforts were made to get me a wife. I wooed, I was
engaged, my mother taking the greatest pains in the matter, that when
I was once married, the health-giving baptism might cleanse me; for
which she rejoiced that I was being daily fitted, remarking that her
desires and Thy promises were being fulfilled in my faith. At which
time, verily, both at my request and her own desire, with strong
heartfelt cries did we daily beg of Thee that Thou wouldest by a
vision disclose unto her something concerning my future marriage; but
Thou wouldest not. She saw indeed certain vain and fantastic things,
such as the earnestness of a human spirit, bent thereon, conjured up;
and these she told me of, not with her usual confidence when Thou
hadst shown her anything, but slighting them. For she could, she
declared, through some feeling which she could not express in words,
discern the difference betwixt Thy revelations and the dreams of her
own spirit. Yet the affair was pressed on, and a maiden sued who
wanted two years of the marriageable age; and, as she was pleasing,
she was waited for.
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