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Earlston must have remembered once dining in the Manse of Maxton at a Communion time; for, as his tender-handed wife took her place beside his chair to feed her helpless husband, he always lifted up his palsied hand and always said to himself, to her, and above all, to God, the 131st Psalm 'As child of mother weaned; my soul Is like a weaned child;
At half-past eight o'clock on the morning of the 21st of May, Paine broke up his bivouac on the Atchafalaya and marched to Morganza, after detaching the 131st New York and the 173d New York with a section of artillery to guard the ammunition train. Grover followed by water as fast as the steamboats could be provided.
Molineux caused Day to deploy the 131st New York as skirmishers on the right of the road, while the 11th Indiana, led by Macauley, performed the same service on the left.
What, then, had they which the children of the kingdom must have? Perhaps the sweet and meek little 131st Psalm puts us best on the track of the answer. It may have been in our Lord's mind; it certainly corresponds to His thought.
None of these objects can be said to have been accomplished, nor was any advantage gained beyond a slight advance of the lines, at a single point on Weitzel's front, by the 131st New York.
I lay on the heather looking through it and listening to it. October 23rd. The 131st Psalm came into my mind when I was on the moor again. "Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of its mother: my soul is even as a weaned child."
till all the godly households in Galloway knew the 131st Psalm as Alexander Gordon of Earlston's grace before meat. 'A renowned Gordon, a patriot, a good Christian, a confessor, and, I may add, a martyr of Jesus Christ. Livingstone's Characteristics.
Captain Albert Stearns, of the 131st New York, who was stationed at Plaquemine as provost marshal of the parish, made his escape with thirteen men of his guard. The Confederates were fired upon by the guard and lost one man killed and two wounded. In their turn they fired upon the steamboats, and wounded two of the crew.
Barrett was in time to save the bridge from Vincent, and to hold the advantage thus gained Dwight soon sent Holcomb with the 1st Louisiana, 131st New York, 6th New York, 22d Maine, and Closson's battery.
A bag it was and when they raced to the field in which it fell they discovered that it was improvised, roughly sewn and weighted with sand. The superintendent read the label and frowned. "'To the Driver of Ambulance B. T. 9743, 131st General Hospital' this is evidently for you, Miss Laramore." "For me, Mrs. Crane?" Vera Laramore came forward, a picture of astonishment and took the bag.
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