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Scattered on high, the clouds were colored in bright, wonderfully shaded hues, and numerous "ladyfingers" warned of daylong winds.* But what were mere winds to this Nautilus, which no storms could intimidate! So I was marveling at this delightful sunrise, so life-giving and cheerful, when I heard someone climbing onto the platform.
Surely there was a river near. We passed fine crops of maize; onions were doing famously; fields of bearded wheat rustled in a life-giving breeze. And then the Wad-el-Nyfs, the largest river we had to cross, came into sight.
The wild flowers were in full bloom, pushing their red, white, yellow, blue and pink heads above the grass. The wind was blowing a steady life-giving gale. The fields of flowers bowed and swayed and rose again at its touch. Their perfume filled the air. The perfume of the near-by fields was mingled with the odor of thousands of miles of prairie gardens to the south and west.
His other room-mates, including his neighbour Penworthy, were so far convalescent as to be up and away, presumably by the life-giving sea, whose rhythmic murmur he could hear. For the first time since he awoke to find himself bandaged up in a strange dug-out, and surrounded by strange faces, did the chaos of his ideas resolve itself into anything like definite memories.
"What has given China four thousand of years of existence?" asked Herr Kaim, abruptly, of the Count. The Count could not tell, unless it were that the nation was dead already in all that regarded the higher life of national existence, had become mummified, in fact, and did not know it. "Not at all!" replied Herr Kalm. "It is the constant use of the life-giving infusion of tea that has saved China!
To that question we need to link this other question how may we experience its full power in our lives? Too often that precious Blood does not have its cleansing, peace-giving, life-giving, sin-destroying power in our hearts, and too often we do not find ourselves in God's presence and fellowship all the day. Whence its Power?
This nourishing, life-giving word is represented by the manna, and the reality is found in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is himself the bread of life in the soul. Amen, Jesus! To-day my health is better, and I find myself able to reply to your letter.
And he smiled proudly, reflecting that, but for the severities in which he had borne his share, the Austrian horses would to-day be gnawing the bark of the trees beside him. He soliloquized: "Life-giving terror, oh! blessed terror! Last year at this time, our heroic defenders were beaten and in rags, the soil of the fatherland was invaded, two-thirds of the departments in revolt.
Would to heaven they would send forth evangelists from the Church, not with fire and sword, but with the sword of the Spirit the Word of God with the lamp of life in their hands; not to deny the people that life-giving fount, but to give them to drink through the channels God Himself has appointed! Then, indeed, methinks heresy would soon cease to exist.
It filled his lungs like a life-giving tonic. How glorious this wild world was! "Well, now!" Skipper Zeb announced an hour before midday. "Here's Swile Island before we knows it! We'll stop for a bit to boil the kettle and stretch our legs ashore." Swile Island was a small, nearly round island, containing an area equal to about that of a city block.
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