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Finally he abandoned his idolatrous ways wholly, and became so pure a man that the was favored by God with the gift of prophecy. This happened on the day on which the man of God out of Judah came to Jeroboam, for the grandson of Moses is none other than the old prophet at Beth-el who invited the man of God out of Judah to come to his house. The mischief done by Micah spread further and further.
'And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. "This pleasant relation continued till a freebooting party of Danites appeared.
It was Betty who had tramped three miles through the snow last Christmas to carry her gifts to the free negro Levi, who was "laid up" and could not come to claim his share; and it was Betty who had asked as a present for herself the lame boy Micah, that belonged to old Rainy-day Jones.
'I trust that you have not slain him, Micah, he said of a sudden, opening his eyes. 'A higher power than ours has judged him, Reuben, I answered. 'Poor devil! He has had much to embitter him, he murmured, and straightway fainted again.
He merely said: "If a man have an eye to see behind the face, he understands the foolish laugh of a man, or the hand of a good woman, and that is much. Hilton's wife told us all. She had rode two hundred miles from the south-west, and was making for Fort Micah, sixty miles farther north. For what? She had loved a man against the will of her people.
For instance, out of the many passages which might be cited, Isaiah says, "Awake . . . O arm of the Lord, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old ." Micah, "Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitary in the wood, in the midst of Carmel; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old; according to the days of thy coming out of Egypt will I show unto him marvellous things ." The Psalms abound with like references to past mercies, as pledges and types of future.
There is someone else giving information, and it's someone who knows a good deal. Come now, brother Micah, cudgel your brains; think, man, think, who is it?" Micah sat down at his writing-table and passed his hand over his forehead. "I cannot think," he said. "I cannot, I will not believe that any of our people are traitors." "These orders which Neal speaks of came from Belfast," said Donald.
What have you to do with the beating of skins and the tanning of leather? 'My father would have you go forth as a knight-errant, Micah, said Reuben, laughing. 'You might chance to get your own skin beaten and your own leather tanned. 'Who ever knew so long a tongue in so short a body? cried the innkeeper.
And I join in the hope that when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our Nation: that we had remembered the words of Micah and renewed our search for humility, mercy, and justice; that we had torn down the barriers that separated those of different race and region and religion, and where there had been mistrust, built unity, with a respect for diversity;
A Christian has no business at any place where he cannot go in the name of Jesus Christ, because the Scripture says: "They shall walk up and down in His name." Zach., 10 ch. 12v. Micah, 4 ch. 5v. "His name shall be on their foreheads." Rev., 22 ch. 4 v. "Ye are my witnesses." Isa., 43 ch. 10 v.
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