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"But after that you'll be a regular feature of the day's entertainment. And, zowie, how the second will lay for you and hand it to you! They'll consider you a traitor, a renegade, a a backslider, Clint, and they'll go after you hard. Better lay in a full supply of arnica and sterilised gauze and plaster, my noble hero, for you'll get yours all right, all right!"
You, Spadevil, must die backslider as you are!" Tydomin said quietly, "He has no power to enforce this. Are you going to allow the truth to fall to the ground, Spadevil?" "It will not perish by my death, but by my efforts to escape from death. Catice, I accept your judgment." Tydomin smiled. "For my part, I am too tired to walk farther today, so I shall die with him."
Blount well knew that the present state of things could not long be permitted. In their eyes, the backslider was palpably a far more unsavory fact than the original sinner. Could not Mr. Blount use his influence in some way, or suggest some course? Mr.
Brother Rigby loved to relate the tortures of the day when he was convicted of sin; but on this night his ancient story seemed appropriate, as he had dealt with great severity on the doings of the backslider, Joel Mazarine. When the two wags returned to the front street of Askatoon, they were just in time to see the second meeting of Orlando and Mazarine.
But did you ever hear of a backslider bidding the Lord Jesus Christ "Good bye"; going into his closet and saying "Lord Jesus, I have known Thee ten, twenty, or thirty years: but I am tired of Thy service; Thy yoke is not easy, nor Thy burden light; so I am going back to the world, to the flesh-pots of Egypt. Good bye, Lord Jesus! Farewell"? Did you ever hear that?
In connexion with this one of my chief companions at this time, the last-mentioned American Professor, was a backslider.
Wackernagel was alone, washing dishes at the sink. She looked up with a start at Tillie's hurried entrance, and her kindly face showed distress as she saw who it was; for, faithful to the Rules, she would not speak to this backslider and excommunicant from the faith. But Tillie went straight up to her, threw her arms about her neck, and pressed her lips to her aunt's cheek. "Aunty Em!
Whittier's poem "Ichabod" seemed to have been aimed at him, especially in its third stanza: "Oh, dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night." Amid the lurid gleams and heat of such a disappointment, men cannot see clearly. They impute wrong motives, base motives, to the backslider.
If Judas the traitor, or Francis Spira the backslider, were alive, to whisper these men in the ear a little, and to tell them what it hath cost their souls for turning back, it would surely stick by them as long as they have a day to live in the world. Agrippa gave a fair step on a sudden; he stepped almost into the bosom of Christ in less than half an hour.
II. Ruling elders, to assist the preachers to admit the serious inquirer, or shut out the profane backslider, and to re-admit the penitent to watch over the members, that they be diligent in their worldly callings, that there be no drones or idlers to heal offences to feed the church with admonitions, and to visit and comfort the sick.
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