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He added also that he always asked God to guide him and to give him grace to be a good man, beseeching Him that he might excel in whatever profession he should embrace, and that he "might live to be forty-three years old." Strangely enough this most explicit prayer was granted to the letter, and was a prophecy in outline of his future.
"Forty-three years from that period, we have the happiness to find you in our country, the vast improvement of which is the most conclusive evidence of the correctness of the principles for which you contended by the side of Washington.
He carried on a vast war without interruption during the whole of his forty-three years' reign against the most wealthy and military nations of Christendom not recognising his authority, and in so doing he is said to have expended a sum total of seven hundred millions of dollars a statement which made men's hair stand on their heads.
This meant that he had reached the top of his profession. He was now forty-three years old. No American publication had ever had so brilliant a history. Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and the early novels of Henry James. If America had a literature, the Atlantic was certainly its most successful periodical exponent. Its recent editors had lived too exclusively in their back numbers.
Several astronomers suggested the name "Herschel," if the discoverer would consent, but this he would not do. Doctor Bode then named the new star "Uranus," and Uranus it is, although perhaps with any other name 't would shine as bright. Herschel was forty-three years old when he discovered Uranus. He was still a professional musician, and an amateur astronomer.
The plant does not grow in their country, and has to be fetched every year by men who make a journey of forty-three days for the purpose. Meanwhile the wives at home contribute to the safety of their absent husbands by never walking fast, much less running, while the men are on the road.
Soon after our passing Straits le Maire the scurvy began to make its appearance amongst us; and our long continuance at sea, the fatigue we underwent, and the various disappointments we met with, had occasion its spreading to such a degree, that at the latter end of April there were but few on board who were not in some degree afflicted with it; and in that month no less than forty-three died of it on board the Centurion.
"Keep it up! It's getting the best of you!" he shouted to each Overlander in turn as he passed. "Can't we send to Forty-three for assistance?" called Hippy. "No. You or I would have to go. Neither of us can be spared." "We'll have to be spared if this keeps up much longer. Do you think the horses are safe?" "Yes. They are on the river side of the fire.
He gazed at the assortment of paper containers. Monstrosities of hearts, cupids, and entwining fretwork were embossed on each, but save for the intricacy of design, there was little difference between them. He indicated his choice. "Forty-three cents," said Miss Thomas. John paid the sum without a tremor and dashed for the door.
Of forty-three Governors of our states, only seventeen are members of any church; yet all profess allegiance to the religion of Jesus. The men have formed secret societies outside the Church. "The Church triumphant will be a social power. Man to-day is more than an individual. The individual has played his role in the growth of the centuries.
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