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I will not hear about that;" interrupted Theodore, "but I hope some day you will learn about God." "In the begging? must I say it in the begging next time?" "No, I don't mean that; not in begging bread of people in the road, but in praying." "What's that?" "Begging." "Then I am to beg?" "No, not on the road, but of a great good Being, who will never refuse what you ask." "Is that you?"
If Gentile Christians are longing and praying for that time, shall not Hebrews long, pray, and strive to hasten its coming? Shall they not search their hearts and ask, "Wherefore is it so long delayed? Wherefore are the heathen still suffered to prevail; the followers of the false prophet to hold the holy city in subjection?
I cannot tell why it is, except that I always pray for my business, and ask the Lord to bless it for the good of others, and that the means which come from it may be used for his cause. When I stop giving, business stops coming. When I stop praying specially for it, perplexities arise. As long as I pray for it, it all moves easily, and I have no care or trouble.
He shook hands formally and marched away. Sally smiled up at Joe, but her eyes were suddenly full of tears. "I do hope everything goes all right, Joe," she said unsteadily. "I I'll be praying for you." "I can use some of that, too," admitted Joe. She looked at her hand. Joe's ring was on her finger wrapped with string on the inside of the band to make it fit.
We will redouble our care and our gratitude, happy if, by our obedience, we can make up to you in the smallest degree for the inestimable loss of a cherished husband I finish, dear mother, my grief compels it by praying you to calm yours. My health is perfect, and my daily prayer is that Heaven may grant you the same. Convey my respects to my Aunt Gertrude, to Nurse Saveria, and to my Aunt Fesch.
Soon after the distemper broke out, Master John de Brocas threw open his house to receive all stricken persons who would come thither to be tended, and it has been full to overflowing night and day ever since. I passed by the house as I came out, and around the door there were scores of wretched creatures, all stricken with the distemper, praying to be taken in.
"Now I desire to know," said Mr. North, "if we are never to pray in public about slavery? Is it not the great subject before the country, and are not all our interests in Church and State deeply involved in it?" "While we believe," said I, "that holding slaves is a sin, I take the ground that praying for the Southerners is a false impeachment.
I'll tell you. We could remain standing there looking on, praying to Providence that they might get through, and holding ourselves ready to bear a hand when opportunity offered, and, failing that, do our utmost to break their fall." Bill's appreciation suddenly illuminated his ingenuous face. "Say," he cried admiringly. "You've hit it. Sure, we can't climb up and help.
"Why did you come here," inquired the lady in a voice trembling with emotion she could control herself no longer "when, day after day, I have been praying God that I might never see you again? When I avoided every place where I might chance to meet you, why did you seek me out here? I am lost, for God has abandoned me. In all my life, no man's image has been in my heart save yours alone.
The woman crouched in front of one of the doors, with a wicket in it, whence Jim heard a low voice repeating something over and over, and the sound of it thrilled him for he recognized it as the voice of the Señorita Cordova, praying softly for deliverance. It pierced through Jim's heart, the pity and the pathos of it, and for a moment his eyes were blinded with tears.
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