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There was, however, a kind of wholesale sanctity about the place which overshot the mark; it pretends to be one of the holiest spots in the world. The effect is spoiled by the way the sacristans hang about and offer to take you into it for ten sous I was accosted by two and escaped from another and by the familiar manner in which you pop in and out.
He could not endure without mortification, without resentment even, that the holiest of holy men should have been exposed to the jeering and spiteful mockery of the frivolous crowd so inferior to him.
We are not to think that our holiest service is free from sin, or can be accepted save through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. We are not to suppose that sins of omission, any more than sins of commission, are looked lightly upon by GOD: sins of forgetfulness and heedlessness or ignorance are more than frailties are real sins, needing atoning sacrifice.
It means not merely that there was here a phenomenon, not only extraordinary but unique, in the development of human character, but that here was created or evolved what was to guide and form the religious ideas of mankind; here were the springs of what has reached through all the ages of expanding humanity to our own days, of what is best and truest and deepest and holiest.
Remember, too, that this was to him a holy war, the holiest in which the sword can be drawn. He was fighting for freedom, for the possession of his land, for the protection of wife and child and kindred, and the heritage which his fathers of old time had handed down to him.
And now you recall, with an inner shrinking, how well you have thought of yourself, how much you have talked about yourself and your view of things, perhaps in the language of a properly phrased humility. Now you are dumb. His presence dumbs you. You begin to wonder at the strange self-confidence and self-complacence that have been so common even in your holiest moments and experiences.
O God! that bread should be so dear, And human flesh so cheap. Although thus cast down by earthly feelings, divine Faith raises one up again. Divine Faith! the noblest and brightest, and holiest gift of God to man; always teaching us to look heavenward Excelsior in its theme for ever.
It stood, I say, nigh the veil, nigh the holiest; and he that burnt incense there, did make his approach to God. This altar thus placed did front the ark within the veil; to put us in mind that the law is kept therein from hurting us; to let us know also that the mercy-seat is above, upon the ark, and that God doth sit thereon, with his pardon in his hand to save us.
"You are an authority on quotations, I know; my father wants to verify one for his sermon this morning. Can you help him? It is this: 'Revealed in love and sacrifice, The Holiest passed before thine eyes, One and the same, in threefold guise." "It is Whittier, I know," said Erica, promptly; "and I think it is in a poem called 'Trinitas. Come home with me, and we will hunt for it."
He could no more give you his best than he could fly. Ashamed, I s'pose, ashamed of the best that is in him. We are all a little that way all but me I try to write my best, regardless of whether the thing sounds ridiculous or not regardless of what others think or say or have said. Ashamed of our holiest, truest and best! Is it not too bad? "You are twenty-five now?
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