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Let us learn that there is an element of threatening in God's most merciful message, and that the appeal to terror and to the desire for self-preservation is part of the way to preach the Gospel. Plain warnings of coming evil may be spoken tenderly, and reveal love as truly as the most soothing words. The warning comes in time. 'Forty days' of grace are granted.
His broad chest heaved and panted, his breath came in hoarse gasps. He was too much stunned to speak. Ralph poured out a glass of water, and held it to his white and rigid lips. "'Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. The Lord help and comfort you, my dear master, under this heavy affliction. We are all liable to temptation. Try and forgive your son." "My son!
I think the only currents we feel come from the tide, and they seem to be setting us back and forth, instead of carrying us in any one settled direction." "Quite likely, sir; and this makes my opinion of what I saw an hour since all the more probable." "What you saw! In the name of a merciful Providence, Tier, do not trifle with me! Has any thing been seen near by?"
Well is it with him that apprehendeth the intent of these words, and recognizeth the purpose of Him Who is the Lord of all creation. Happy are those that inhale from thee the sweet savors of the Merciful, that acknowledge thine exaltation, that safeguard thy sanctity, that reverence, at all times, thy station.
It was so that men found them later, and carried them in, and it would have been more merciful had Hump Doane been as lifeless as he seemed instead of coming back to the ordeal he must face.
On the ground a man who had been run over lay apparently unconscious, and covered with blood; he was very badly dressed, but not like a workman. Blood was flowing from his head and face; his face was crushed, mutilated and disfigured. He was evidently badly injured. "Merciful heaven!" wailed the coachman, "what more could I do?
Mabel nodded slowly: she had read of the man's fate on the placards. "He was killed trampled and strangled instantly," said Oliver. "I did what I could: you saw me. But well, I dare say it was more merciful." "But you did what you could, my dear?" said the old lady, anxiously, from her corner. "I called out to them, mother, but they wouldn't hear me." Mabel leaned forward
Philip, with Krantz, watched the issue; every man who fell wounded was put to the sword, and the three left, who had been fighting on the same side, rested panting on their weapons. After a pause, two of them communicated with each other, and the result was an attack upon the third man, who fell dead beneath their blows. "Merciful Father! are these Thy creatures?" exclaimed Philip.
"No, dear, he is not my property, and I have no legal right to put him out of his misery, but we must call up the Humane Society and notify them at once. They will be merciful. It is better to have him die now than live and suffer at the hands of a brutal owner, Peace. You must not cry."
Our conscience is free and quiet because it no longer has to fear the wrath of God. This is real liberty, compared with which every other kind of liberty is not worth mentioning. Who can adequately express the boon that comes to a person when he has the heart-assurance that God will nevermore be angry with him, but will forever be merciful to him for Christ's sake?
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