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A God wrapt in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger! If that sight will not touch our hearts, what will? And by that same sight he has taught men that he feels with them and for them. God has been through the pains of infancy. God has hungered. God has wept. God has been ignorant. God has grown, and increased in stature and in wisdom, and in favour both with God and man. And why?
"Till the gringos came all was well; when they came, trouble came also. Till the gringos came, no watch was put over the cattle, for only those who hungered killed and ate. Now they steal the patron's cattle by hundreds, they steal his land, and if José speaks truly, they would steal also " He hesitated to speak what was on his tongue, and finished lamely: "what is more precious still.
Thousands of professors have never been truly convinced of sin, much less truly converted. Sin to them is being found out! Though all through her life our Army Mother hungered and thirsted to know God better, and to serve Him more perfectly, yet it was not till some time after her marriage that she received the blessing of a clean heart.
We cannot work for the temporary and get the permanent. If, then, it is true that we are to get what we want, then the secret of happiness is to want the best things and to want them very much. If we hunger and thirst for base things we shall get them. Oh yes, we shall get them; and get the unhappiness which comes of this awful discovery, that as we have hungered so we are filled.
'Yea, was the concise reply of the Cameronian leader, in a voice which seemed to issue from the very penetralia of his person. 'But your escort, Mr. Gilfillan, is not so strong as I expected, said Major Melville. 'Some of the people, replied Gilfillan, 'hungered and were athirst by the way, and tarried until their poor souls were refreshed with the word.
A wave of anger swept over him, drowning his pride anger against himself. He thought of the white people with whom he had lived. "I sought for a recognition of my equality with them," he went on. "I sought it from their men and from their women. I hungered for it like a dog for a bone. They would not give it neither their men, nor their women.
It filled him with sudden and fiery rage to be hunted thus like a defenseless animal, and more than once he was tempted to make a dash for the engineers' quarters on the hillside above the commissary a rifle being the thing for which he hungered and thirsted. But to show himself under the lights was to invite the fate he had so narrowly escaped.
It was foolish. She knew that it was foolish. But she had been living rather harshly and rather materially for some time, and she hungered for the romance of youth. Starr was the only person who had come to her untagged by the sordid, everyday petty details of life.
"My child! my child!" said Dalton. "It was for you that I lived. If it had not been for the thought of you, I should have died long since. It was for your sake that I came home. It is for you only that I live now. There is nothing for me to forgive. Look up at me. Let me see your darling face. Let me hear you say one word only one word the word that I have hungered and thirsted to hear.
But now the buckets hung at the bottom of the well, and the flowers hungered in vain, and the neighbors held aloof, and she shut to the hut door and listened to the rain which began to fall, and cried herself to sleep all alone in her tiny kingdom.
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