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I would doubtless have been tempted in regard to my brother's condition had not God made me to know that I must be patient and give his body time to recuperate and give him a chance to develop as a worker. Late in the fall we began a series of meetings in company with another gospel worker who had been in the work for sometime.
I went out one night with Fritz on the Neva to hear a woman in a boat singing a peasant girl with high cheek-bones and I caught a frightful chill." "Ah!" said Sir Donald. "What was the song? I know a good many of the Northern peasant songs." Suddenly Lady Holme got up, letting her gloves fall to the ground. "I'll sing it to you," she said. Robin Pierce touched her arm.
Alpatych went up to a large crowd standing before a high barn which was blazing briskly. The walls were all on fire and the back wall had fallen in, the wooden roof was collapsing, and the rafters were alight. The crowd was evidently watching for the roof to fall in, and Alpatych watched for it too. "Alpatych!" a familiar voice suddenly hailed the old man. "Mercy on us!
And then I came to words which I knew, yet which had never taken such hold of me before. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven." "That is what I have to do!" I thought immediately. "That is my part. That is clear. What I have to do, is to let my light shine. And if the light shines, perhaps it will fall on something.
Only one thing was lacking, namely, tears not those of the hirelings who attended it, but such as fall in silence from a sorrowing eye.
Arthur, the hope for me now is, to go," said Jenkins. "I would not be restored if I could. How can I tell, sir, but I might fall away from God? If the call comes to-night, sir, it will find me ready. Oh, Mr. Arthur, if people only knew the peace of living close to God of feeling that they are READY! Ready for the summons, let it come in the second or third watch!"
From that moment he renewed his connection with the minister's enemies; he joined the party who were working for the fall of the Government; and as soon as his pickaxe had free play, it fell.
He had ascertained that a rifle-ball had passed through the body of the wounded man; and he was sufficiently familiar with injuries of this nature to be certain that the chances of his surviving the hurt were very trifling, if any. Then drink my tears, while yet they fall Would that my bosom's blood were balm; And well thou knowest I'd shed it all, To give thy brow one minute's calm.
She seemed like one of those statues wrought in the glory and the rich days of Athens in ivory and in gold some goddess who has heard the tidings of the coming fall, the change of the old order, and sits passive in her throne waiting the doom from which there is no escape. Something of this filtered through to the sad heart of Buck Daniels.
And there began to fall upon him a kind of mellow peace that rose at times of communion and prayer to a point so ravishing, that he began to understand that it would not be a light cross for which such preparatory graces were necessary.
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