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John's gospel seemed to enact itself before my eyes. For so vivid was the sense of something familiar in the scene, so mystic was the hour, that I should scarce have been surprized had I seen a fire of coals burning on the shore, and heard the voice of Jesus inviting these tired fishermen to come and dine.
The means of supporting him at the University were accordingly supplied by the liberality of the friends whom he had gained; and after passing a twelvemonth with the Rev. Mr. Grainger, of Winteringham in Lincolnshire, to prepare himself, he was in 1805 entered a sizar of St John's, Cambridge. Here his application to books was so intense, that his health speedily sank under it.
All along the sharp crease there was a slender smear of blood. He looked down at it and pushed it back out of her sight. He had taken something out of his pocket. "I will give you this. I found it on the battlefield." He handed her a small leather pocketbook that was John's. It had her photograph in it and his, taken together.
Having very unexpectedly procured a boat, I left my house yesterday afternoon, came hither by land, and proceed in a few minutes for St. Mary's. It is possible that I may extend my tour to St. John's, and even to St.
The harbourage is known to-day as Catalina, and lies distant, as the crow flies, about eighty miles north-westward of the present city of St John's in Newfoundland. Here the mariners remained ten days, 'looking for fair weather, and engaged in mending and 'dressing' their boats. At this time, it must be remembered, the coast of Newfoundland was, in some degree, already known.
It would not be strictly accurate to say that we saw nothing during all the time we were adrift, but the things we saw were of the same stuff that the fog was made of. Early in the first day I saw a sail dimly outlined in the misty air. I called John's attention to it with a shout, and he saw it too, but, as we rowed toward it, the sail retreated and then disappeared.
Aunt Judith, the sister of John's mother, "looked after" the household affairs of her brother-in-law, by coming over once a week and helping Huldah darn and mend and make, and by giving Huldah such advice as her inexperience was supposed to require.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. See St. John's Gospel, chap. vi. 53, and following verses. See ante, p. 26. See ante, i. 140, note 5, and v. 50. Johnson, after saying that the inn was not so good as they expected, continues: 'But Mr.
"You are telling me this, Mrs. Constable why?" he asked. "Because I wished you to know the exact situation before I asked you, as a great favour to me, to Mr. Constable, to to marry her in St. John's. Of course," she went on, controlling her rising agitation, and anticipating a sign of protest, "we shouldn't expect to have any people, -and Gertrude wasn't married in St.
Non!" said Moise, in reply, casting a judicial look at the low freeboard of the Mary Ann. "She'll go, those boat." "She'll be getting lighter all the time," ventured Jesse. "John gets awfully hungry, and he'll eat a lot!" They all laughed heartily at this reference to John's well-known appetite. All were in good spirits when the real progress down the tangled creek began.
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