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No possible theory of inspiration should lead us to look for the submergences of the dykes of thought cast up by race and age and individuality. As a matter of fact, we find no uniformity in the theologies of the New Testament writers. Men have tried hard to make it appear that there was such a unity of thought.
The fens in the seventh century were probably very like the forests at the mouth of the Mississippi, or the swampy shores of the Carolinas. Their vast plain is now, in summer, one sea of golden corn; in winter, a black dreary fallow, cut into squares by stagnant dykes, and broken only by unsightly pumping mills and doleful lines of poplar-trees.
I began the new term with $50, which sum was to my credit in the school treasury, having been earned by my labor. During the summer of 1899 I was again offered work at Uniontown by Messrs. J. L. Dykes and Company. I remained with them only two months, however.
Conquest did not mean pacification. Haarlem after a prolonged and desperate resistance, fell in July, and the garrison was put to the sword; but there was no hint of yielding on the part of the Hollanders. When the Spaniards advanced on Alkmaar, they were threatened with the opening of the dykes.
The road was broad and high; great hillocks of sand the Dunes lay between it and the ocean; on the other side the water from the opened dykes was already turning the fields into an inland sea. In some places it lapped the edges of the embankment that formed the roadway.
We can easily understand that the man who wrote this would be called a liberal by many of his neighbours; what he wanted, however, was a reform which would give life, permanency, and independence to an institution which like everything else was gradually falling before the inroads of the dominant bureaucracy. The same year he was appointed to the position of Inspector of Dykes for Jerichow.
"Since I came into the world," wrote Alva, "I have never, been in such anxiety. If they should succeed in cutting off the communication along the dykes, we should have to raise the siege of Harlem, to surrender, hands crossed, or to starve." Orange was fully aware of the position of both places, but he was, as usual, sadly deficient in men and means.
Indignation meetings were held in every little townlet and cattle-camp on the Karoo. The old Dutch spirit was up the spirit of the men who cut the dykes. Rebellion was useless. But a vast untenanted land stretched to the north of them.
He caught his falling pipe neatly. But if what the French call effarement was ever expressed on a human countenance it was on this occasion, testifying to his modesty, his sensibility and his innocence. He looked afraid of somebody overhearing my audacious almost sacrilegious hint as if there had not been a mile and a half of lonely marshland and dykes between us and the nearest human habitation.
So Parson Marvin went off, alone, to visit a distant parishioner one who was dying by himself out on the marsh, in a cottage cut off from all the world in a spring tide. "Don't forget that it is high tide at five o'clock, and that there is no moon, and that the dykes will be full.
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