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One such preacher much more abuseth the name of Christ and of his bitter passion than do five hundred gamblers who in their idle business swear and foreswear themselves by his holy bitter passion at dice.

Too often the professional son of God is a chartered libertine, whose amors are carried on under a veil of sanctity. What else, indeed, could be expected when a lot of lusty young fellows, in the prime of life, foreswear marriage, take vows of chastity, and undertake to stem the current of their natures by such feeble dams as prayers and hymns? Who the original "sons of God" were is a moot point.

David was risking it deliberately, because of her indignation that her husband had had to foreswear his union in order to get work in America. The young Italian, Rovetta, came, then old John Edstrom. There being not chairs enough in the house, Mrs.

"Neither can I, hang it! All right, I'll be a sport if you will," agreed Stuart with a laugh, and rushed away to pack a bag in short order, all the zest of irrepressible youth, in one who had been forced by circumstance to foreswear most of the joys of youth for stern labour, coming uppermost to bid him make merry once more at any cost of after fall of spirits.

Let him overmaster the enslaving passion; let him foreswear the tempting indulgence; let him recoil from the envenomed cup, which savors of the hellish breath and the ensnaring craft of the Evil One, ever seeking to draw chains of Satanic forging about him.

I neither writhed nor howled." "Well, we're even now," declared Sara. "I'll foreswear pebbles if you'll abolish the sand habit." "I have always liked to look at Emma from a distance," said Julia Emerson, hastily sliding to the extreme edge of the group. "Listen, ye babblers," called Elfreda, "to the voice of the oracle. Let's leave old Father Ocean to himself and get into our everyday clothes.

If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to foreswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil."

If one starts with the assumption that nothing can be done through the State as Owen, Bakounin, and the syndicalists have done one is, of course, led irretrievably to oppose parliamentary and other political methods of action. When the syndicalists throw over democracy and foreswear political action, they are fatally driven to the point where they must abandon the working class.

A strange yearning to join those who carried the dinner pails and who had homes and firesides of their own made itself felt, and still later this desire to foreswear his past and reform became ever stronger, especially when one day by a singular chance he happened during recess to pass a school house, and stepping behind a tree from where with a wistful look in his eyes he watched the rosy-cheeked, romping children, while at the same time revolting pictures of his own misspent life and thoughts of the far worse to-be-spent future, and the fact that he had been heretofore his own worst enemy came so strongly to his mind that he could barely keep himself from sobbing.

A sweet whisper stole to his ears: "You will befriend him, befriend my son for my sake." And in his dream-state he found himself prepared to foreswear all that he held holy for her sake. She grasped both his hands, and her burning eyes looked closely into his. "Your reward shall be a great one," she whispered, even more softly. Came a sudden blank, and Dr.