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He perceived in her deep down enthusiasms and compassions, that seemed often as though they shook her beyond her strength. They made him uncomfortable; they were strange to his own mind; and yet they moved and influenced him. During the short time, for instance, that she had lived in their midst, she had made friends everywhere so he discovered among these Cumbria folk.
And, lo, as some sweet vision breaks Out from its native morning skies With rosy shame on downcast cheeks, The virgin stands before his eyes. A nameless longing seizes him! From all his wild compassions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.
Sometimes the Lord grants such sudden unfoldings to souls long closed. They are of those royal compassions which astonish even the angels. When his time was nearly over, David pushed a piece of paper toward his father. "It is my last request," he said, looking into his face with eyes whose entreaty was pathetic. "You must grant it, father, hard as it is."
His eye is on the brokenness of thy heart; and that it is which makes the compassions of the Lord run over: "A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." The stopping of thy words may arise from overmuch trouble in thy heart. David was so troubled sometimes that he could not speak.
The unnatural thing, the foolish and wrong thing, is to remain a sentimental child for ever, with a child's ready foolish tears at what are common, necessary facts of life. I can be much kinder, much more really kind, by seeing things clearly and in their right perspective than by occluding them with false compassions.
"Yes, to put it baldly, that's the word. It's unfortunate, damned unfortunate, but true, you know." Ben's eyes did not leave the other man's face. "You've talked with her, have you?" he asked. Scotty fidgeted more than before, and swore silently that in future he would keep his compassions to himself. "No, I've never thought it necessary so far; but of course " Ben Blair lifted his head.
But I think, beloved, there is never so dark a night, but there is something to sing about, even concerning that night; for there is one thing I am sure we can sing about, let the night be ever so dark, and that is, "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, and because His compassions fail not."
And who can say for certain where our compassions are seated, our sensibilities and sympathies? Why not, as the Egyptians thought, in our bowels rather than in our brains? "Joseph's bowels did yearn upon his brother Benjamin." "Then you have no idea who the queen was?" Meg said. "Not yet," Freddy said. "But we shall know. No Egyptian could enter into his future abode without his name.
Yea, they are designed for them; he hath therefore broken their hearts, he hath therefore wounded their spirits, that he might make them apt to relish his reviving cordials, that he might minister to them his reviving comforts. For indeed, so soon as he hath broken them, his bowels yearn, and his compassions roll up and down within him, and will not suffer him to abide afflicting.
IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions, fulfil ye my joy, that ye may be united in sentiment, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind. Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves.
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