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Now, if a dog be lost, he shall soon find his way back; but a lamb and a babe, if they be lost, they are utterly lost; they can never find the way. Look you, the Lord likeneth His people to lambs and babes, these silly things that be continually lost, and have no wit to find the way. So, brethren, He finds the way. He goeth after that which is lost, until He find it.
"But you must stop reading while I say them," said Lasse, "or you might go wrong." He did not approve of Pelle's wanting to treat it as food for babes. "Well, I don't suppose I could go wrong in the four greater!" said Pelle, with an air of superiority, but nevertheless shutting the book.
"I think I could say anything if I thought it right." "Then tell him of me and my babes, as how I can never have a quiet night while this is going on. It isn't that they two men are fond of one another. Nothing of the sort! Now you; I've got to be downright fond of you, though, of course, you think me common." Mrs. Lopez would not contradict her, but stooped forward and kissed her cheek.
So they read on, and noted the petitions of the priestly prayer for His own. They did not sound the depths of meaning in them, for they were yet but babes; but they observed the strong line of enclosure which separated them from the world and the Lord's reiterated statement that they were not of it, even as He.
Other children would shoot up like corn stalks, but I stayed right where I had been in the months and years past. "To me, it was a heart breaking disclosure. I wanted to play ball, to make the team, only to find that as the slow months crept on, I was assigned to the playground of the little kids, babes, toddlers. The balls, bats, mitts, and other playthings were too big for me.
The picture of Ann, the first he painted, showed her as Saint Cecelia hearkening to music which sounds from Heaven in her ears. Two sweet angel babes floated on thin clouds above her head, singing hymns to a mandoline and viol.
Your father would put his arms around you in the morning and you would never see him again; your mother kissed you, and waved her hand to you as she went out of the gate; and you never knew what became of her afterwards. "And don't you recollect how you little babes in the wilderness could never go anywhere?
"Care stood at his cradle," answered Frau Elsbeth, gently and sadly; "that's why he has that old face." "Oh, you must not be superstitious, dear friend," answered the visitor. "I have been told that newborn babes often have something old in their features; they soon lose that." "Surely you, too, have children?" asked Frau Elsbeth.
With these went a pitiful company of ladies of that country, naked of foot, spoiled of visage, with streaming hair and rent raiment, bearing their babes in their bosoms. These with tears and shrill lamentations fell at Arthur's knees right humbly, weeping, clamouring, and imploring his grace.
'See there, Dolly, said Philip, in a warning voice, 'that is the way you'll be served if you do not mend your ways. 'But I thought, said Annora gravely, 'that people were married once for all, and it could not be undone. 'So said Aunt Cecily, but my Lord was proving to her out of all law that a contract between such a couple of babes went for nought, said Berenger.
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