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God's blessing follows such an one at every step, and he will succeed in the end, whatever trials may beset his path at first. It is a great mistake to suppose that a man's success depends on his "sharpness." Shrewdness is a valuable quality, but it must be coupled with a plain, practical honesty, or it will amount to nothing in the end.
"It is not my fault, you see," he added with a smile; "at least I don't think it is." "You are happy to suffer without fault," said Leopold. "It is because it is just that my punishment seems greater than I can bear." "You need God's forgiveness in your soul." "I don't see how that should do anything for me." "I do not mean it would take away your suffering; but it would make you able to bear it.
And you know how they treated God's Son, His love gift. And I want to remind you to-night that, speaking in our human way the only way we can speak God suffered more in seeing His Son suffer than though He might have suffered Himself. Ask any mother here: Would you not gladly suffer pain in place of your child suffering if you could?
This was a design of which I soon had reason to repent. My mind was sharply turned on different reflections; and since I became the witness of a strange judgment of God's, the thought of dead men's treasures has been intolerable to my conscience.
In subsequent chapters I will tell you something of what God's Word teaches, but, first of all, I desire to fully convince you, and to help you to feel, that the right and true way of life is in obedience to its teaching. Everything is said in the Scriptures that can be said to show us the need of living in harmony with the Bible.
Waverley, ere we bid farewell to this topic for ever; and forgive my boldness if that word have the air of advice. My brother Fergus is anxious that you should join him in his present enterprise. But do not consent to this; you could not, by your single exertions, further his success, and you would inevitably share his fall, if it be God's pleasure that fall he must.
"Let her go, Pascualo, let her go, for God's sake! Our time has come! Why fight and make us suffer so long?" But the Rector was not listening. His eyes were on the mast, where he remembered hearing that terrible groaning sound, when he was under water. And, in fact, the pole had been fractured and was leaning alarmingly.
It was God's will, that, with their aid, we settled the case in court; and, although without proofs, and without taking our depositions, they condemned us to a fine of fifty taes of silver.
This was His work, for had He not called His servant to do His bidding, and what was that servant but an instrument that could neither fit itself nor use itself? Can the rod lift itself, or the saw move itself, or the hammer deal its own blow, or the sword make its own thrust? And if this were God's work, was He not bound to care for His own work?
He was not a religious man in the conventional sense he had never been inside a church in his life but the memory of his dead mother's belief in God's mercy and goodness was still strong within him. The brigalow scrub was about half a mile in length, and stood between the swamp and the high river bank.
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