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"Then let us hope," said he, "that the country's real needs may remain unsatisfied." The Duchessa tittered. "Think of the poor farmers," she said reproachfully. "It's vain to think of them," he answered. "'T is an ascertained fact that no condition of the weather ever contents the farmers." The Duchessa laughed.
All her hopes and aims were expressed in a definite and formal way in the following document, which she sent to be read at the November meeting of the Committee now the Mission Council at Calabar: I think it is an open secret that for many years the workers here have felt that our methods and modes were very far from adequate to overtake the needs of our immense field, and, as the opportunities multiply and the needs grow more clamant, the question grows in importance and gravity.
Do not return to the house of Simon the Leper. Leave Jesus in peace to-night to pray, meditate, and rest, for he needs rest. He'll lead you to Jerusalem as soon as he gets a sign from our Father which is in heaven, Nicodemus said.
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha' been left to the men it had better ha' been left to the men.
All the smothered remorse and despair of his heart burst forth in bitter confessions, as, with many tears, he poured forth his story to the friendly man. It needs not to prolong our story, for now the day has dawned and the hour of release is come.
"But a homeless man must needs do the best he can; and our good friends have won the right to play the part of kinsfolk towards us both." "Indeed indeed they have, dear father," answered Gertrude; "thou canst not think how happy I have been here in this sweet cottage, nor what a home it has been to us all these weeks.
Ay, and so they are, but not sent in wrath, or for ultimate evil. No amount of sorrow need make any human life harmful to man or unholy before God, as a discontented, unhappy life must needs be unholy in the sight of Him who in the mysterious economy of the universe seems to have one absolute law He wastes nothing.
So does the grey drawing, with which you have allowed the sun and your pot of rushes to adorn your room, play the stealthy game of the year. You need not stint yourself of shadows, for an occasion. It needs but four candles to make a hanging Oriental bell play the most buoyant jugglery overhead.
We had agreed that Joe was to give Lynch a whispered explanation of the situation, while I kept Hamby busy. "Where is Mr. Carpenter?" I asked. "He's in the private office, praying." "Well," said I, "there's a sick woman who needs help very badly. I wonder if we'd better disturb him." "I don't know," said Hamby. "I've been here an hour, and haven't heard a sound. Maybe he's asleep."
Popular common sense has got the better of this subtle distinction. We are not savages who can live in the woods, without other shelter than the branches. The civilized man needs a roof, a room, a hearth, and a bed. It is true that the bed, the room, and the house is a home of idleness for the non-producer.
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