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She was full of a solemn wonder as to the abiding-place of the souls of the dead, and a childlike dread lest the number of the elect should be accomplished before she was included therein. How people could ever be merry again after they had been at a funeral, she could not imagine; so she answered gravely, and slightly beside the question: 'I wonder if I was a Friend if I should be good?

It must be possible to have not only a legislature, but to have a competent legislature a legislature willing to elect and willing to maintain an efficient executive. And this is no easy matter.

During the Senatorial contest I was urged by the supporters of Sumner to aid his election, and by the "hunker" wing of the Democratic Party I was urged to bring the influence of the administration to bear against Mr. Sumner. To all I made the same reply. I said: "I am not pledged to elect Mr. Sumner, I am not pledged to defeat him. The subject is in the control of the Legislature."

It is not till after this period, during which he is assignable to any work at the discretion of his superiors, that the young man is allowed to elect a special avocation. These three years of stringent discipline none are exempt from, and very glad our young men are to pass from this severe school into the comparative liberty of the trades.

"Did you hate the bishop that much?" I asked. "Worse than other bishops?" "Not at all," said Lalage. "I never saw him except once and then I thought he was quite a lamb." "Hilda," I said, "why did you hop out of your shoes with excitement and delight when you heard of the death of an old gentleman who never did you any harm?" "We'll have to elect another, won't we?" said Lalage.

The task of the provinces not solved in this period, it is true, but squarely faced was to reconcile democracy and empire. The people of the Canadas in 1791, and of the provinces by the sea a little earlier, had been given the right to elect one house of the legislature. More than this instalment of self-government the authorities were not prepared to grant.

But this was the last of Mr. Webster's efforts in behalf of the freedom of trade. In the spring of 1825, when it devolved upon the House of Representatives to elect a President, the few Federalists remaining in the House became, for a few days, an important body. Mr.

"But, Mary, think what a moment life is! think of those awful ages of eternity! and then think of all God's power and knowledge used on the lost to make them suffer! think that all but the merest fragment of mankind have gone into this, are in it now! The number of the elect is so small we can scarce count them for anything!

What it was for Jesus to be raised up unto them. Who Israel is. By 'Israel' we are to understand all those that God hath promised to Christ 'The children of the promise are counted for the seed, the elect Jews and Gentiles. What it was for Jesus to be raised up unto them. This word 'raised up' is diversely taken in the Scripture. And thus was Jesus Christ raised up.

"We may leave them out of the argument. But there remain the elect, Richard, among whom I dare count myself. And over them, never doubt it, just that which you hate and which appears at first sight to separate you so cruelly from other men, gives you a strange empire. You stimulate, you arrest, you satisfy one's imagination, as does the spectacle of some great drama.