United States or Greece ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Richard Morton is thy name, then. I'll place thee beside Ruth Yocomb, my wife. Come, mother, we're keeping Friend Jones's team from the block. My name is Thomas Yocomb. No, no, take the back seat by my wife. She may preach to thee a little going home. Drive on, Reuben," he added, as he and his two daughters stepped quickly in, "and give Friend Jones a chance.
The tears were raining down Mother Marshall's cheeks by now, but there was a smile of triumph in her eyes. "He wanted to be a missionary, my Stephen did, only he was afraid he wouldn't be able to preach. He always was shy before folks. But I guess he preached his sermon!" She sighed contentedly. "He sure did!" said Pat.
But the call from Randolph being pressed upon him very much, he at length agreed to preach for them during the winter; riding thither for the purpose every Saturday, and returning to Carra-carra on Monday. As the winter wore one, a grave cheerfulness stole over the household. Ellen little thought how much she had to do with it.
The revolt from authority, the assertion of the right of private judgment, has been pushed forward into a socialism which destroys individual liberty of action, or to a state of anarchy in which the weak would have no protection. I do not imagine that the leaders who preach socialism, who live by agitation and not by labor, really desire to overturn the social order and bring chaos.
He was a man full of Christian zeal, and a great preacher of the Gospel, and gave his children, of which he had many, both male and female, by various wives, an education which he hoped would not only make them Christians, but enable them to preach the Gospel to their countrymen.
You will find that hard work in England but why should I preach to you Harry, you have called me here for some purpose? 'I must have detained you already too long. 'Time is not the offender. Since I have come, the evil 'Evil? Are not your actions free? 'Patience, my friend. The freer my actions, the more am I bound to deliberate on them.
He laughed over the story of the eloquent colored brother who, when asked how he came to preach so well, said: "Well, Boss, I takes de text fust; I splains it; den I spounds it, and den I puts in de rousements." Gladstone was quite delighted with this, and said it was about the best description of real parliamentary eloquence.
"Never mind if she did; it is awfully mean to hurt a little girl," said Demi, reproachfully. "Ho! I don't mind; I ain't a little girl, I'm older than you and Daisy; so now," cried Nan, ungratefully. "Don't preach, Deacon, you bully Posy every day of your life," called out the Commodore, who just then hove in sight.
Francis, taking one day one of his religious with him, said: "Let us go and preach"; and thereupon he went out, and after having made a tour round the town, he returned to the convent. "But, Father," said his companion, "are we not going to preach?" "We have done so already," replied the Saint.
Lavendar said placidly "but I don't preach everything I know." William was not following him. He said abruptly, "What are you going to do with David?" "David is going to stay with me." And William said again, "It will break her heart!" "I hope so," said Dr. Lavendar solemnly, How he watched that poor heart, in the next few days! Every afternoon his shabby old buggy went tugging up the hill.
Word Of The Day