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But science closely invests the walls; and Philosophers gird themselves for battle upon the last and greatest of all speculative problems Does human nature possess any free, volitional, or truly anthropomorphic element, or is it only the cunningest of all Nature's clocks?
Finally, Christ Himself waits on them, therein fulfilling in symbol what He has told us in great words that dimly shadow wonders unintelligible until experienced: 'Verily I say unto you, He shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth, and serve them. So here is a vision to cheer us all. Life must be full of toil and of failure.
Peter, and 'gird up the loins of your spirit: be sober, and watch unto prayer. Then ye may laugh all witches to scorn; for God will turn the devices of your enemy to folly."
But when you gird at him lovingly, and have as good as gotten him, lo! in the go-by of the river he is gone as a shadow goes, and only a little cloud of mud curls away from the points of the fork. A long way down that limpid water, chill and bright as an iceberg, went my little self that day on man's choice errand destruction.
These indeed made opposition, affirming that the covenant had been made and must be performed; to which Camillus made answer that it had been made without his permission by a lower magistrate he being at the time Dictator, and he warned the Gauls to make them ready forthwith to battle. To his own men he gave command that they should throw their baggage into a heap and gird on their arms.
Perilous and glorious was it, under these circumstances, for such men as Mather and Stoughton to gird up their stout loins and do battle with the unmeasured, all-surrounding terror. Let no man lightly estimate their spiritual knight-errantry.
For a moment I thought she would answer peevishly, but the mood passed, and she smiled sincerely on me as she replied: "Ay, in all loving-kindness, Simon; and when you hear the sour gird at me, say why, say, Simon, that even a severe gentleman, such as you are, once found some good in Nelly. Will you say that for me?" "With all my heart."
Make pure my heart as a bird and innocent as a flower, Make sweet my thoughts as the meadow-mint O make me all anew, And in the strength of beech and oak gird up my will with power.
In the morning make thy resolves, and in the evening inquire into thy life, how thou hast sped to-day in word, deed, and thought; for in these ways thou hast often perchance offended God and thy neighbour. Gird up thy lions like a man against the assaults of the devil; bridle thine appetite, and thou wilt soon be able to bridle every inclination of the flesh.
Dow- las and the boatswain especially, who were naturally large eaters, uttered involuntary cries of agony, and were obliged to gird themselves tightly with ropes to subdue the excru- ciating pain that was gnawing their very vitals. And this was only the second day of our misery!
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