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Add £50 a year to your income without any risk or hindrance whatever to ordinary work. Apply confidentially to Omega, 13, Shy Street, Liverpool, with stamp for reply. None but respectable intelligent young men need apply." Hullo! Reginald laid down his composing-stick and read the advertisement over again: and after that he read it again, word by word, most carefully. £50 a year!
"It looks that way," I shouted back. It certainly was strong in noise. I made out at last that prices were being held to the figures of the morning's session, and in some cases were forced above them. The excitement grew as the call approached Omega. There was an electric tension in the air that told of the anxious hopes and fears that centered in the coming struggle.
"Two modes of refutation are open; to attack the principle, or pursue the analogy. Geoffroy St. Hilaire has taken one course. I take the other. If, in the investigation of this question, it be legitimate to employ analogy in one part, it must be legitimate to employ it in like respects in another.... Analogy was Paley's alpha, it must be made also his omega."
To secure the supremacy of Paris over the provinces, and of their own influence over Paris, is the Alpha and Omega of their political creed.
The beautiful sounds and changes in nature reminded her that it was time to do certain kinds of work, and with her, work was alpha and omega. As her mother had before her, she was inclined to be a house drudge rather than a housewife. Thrift, neatness, order, marked the limits of her endeavor, and she accomplished her tasks with the awkward, brisk directness learned in her mother's kitchen.
The infant mind, suggestive of the future craving for knowledge, immediately asks, "Who is God?" Question of questions to which the philosopher and the peasant must give the same answer, "God is the infinite, the eternal, the source of all things, the alpha and omega of creation, from Him all came, to Him all must return."
At his instigation the Captain had been removed from Omega Street to pleasant lodgings at the back of Knightsbridge Road, overlooking Hyde Park. This was nearer Bayswater, and it was very pleasant for the fading old worldling. He could see the stream of fashion flowing past as he sat in his easy-chair, propped up with pillows, with the western sunlight on his face.
I should never have supposed her capable of such a clever manoeuvre to secure ten minutes' tete-a-tete with an eligible admirer." He bade his daughter good night with more than usual effusion. He began to think that she might prove herself worthy of him after all. The district between Omega Street and Sloane Square is after dusk of all places the most solitary.
But that emblem, true and sweet as it is, is but half the truth. Taken as the whole, as indeed men are ever tempted to take it, it is a cheerless lie. It is truth for the senses 'the foolish senses, who 'crown' Death, as 'Omega, the last, 'the Lord, because 'they find no motion in the dead. Rest, cessation of consciousness of the outer world, and of action upon it, are set forth by the figure.
Christianity is absolute and final, it is the non plus ultra, the Alpha and Omega, of religion, because its God is the only true God, its Mediator is the only-begotten Son of God, its ransom is the blood of God, and its gift is perfect union with God. Compare John 8, 24; Acts 4, 12; John 14, 6; 3, 36; Gal. 1, 8. 9.
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