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He spreads out his hands before him, and says: 'The word has become flesh!" They shook their heads. But Mary sat at the window and waited and watched. A very short time after these events there came two soldiers to the Jordan, not to have the water poured over their heads, but to arrest the desert preacher and take him to Jerusalem to Herod.
"Wait stop a minute. To think of your going by right at the very minute that we were a-talking about you!" She went out under the trees where the square-built, stern-faced, swarthy young preacher had brought his horse to a standstill. "Now, Peter, you surely ain't a-going up to the court-house to see Andrew Jackson," she said in sudden alarm. "No, no, not now," said Peter, hurriedly.
I tell you, 'twon't do. You're a well-meaning man, no doubt; but you're terribly wrong on some points. You'd do an amazing amount of mischief if we let you run loose. But we couldn't take no such responsibility indeed we couldn't: and the long and short of it is, you've got to go." She spoke these last words very firmly. The preacher flung a glance round and saw he was in a trap.
The "Charter of Charity," promulgated by this chapter for the guidance of the Cistercian Order, is a brief but pregnant document, which quite explains its success. II. A Great Preacher and Essayist
"Ephraim," the Colonel said, turning to the old preacher, "put this man on the payroll as a field hand, beginning from to-morrow, but don't send him to the field for a couple of weeks. Behave yourself," he added, turning to the peonage victim, "and you'll be all right here."
Jock was an orator; he wielded the orator's dominion. Well he knew, and well they all knew, that not a professional preacher in the Five Towns could play on a congregation as he did. For when Jock was roused you could nigh see the waves of emotion sweeping across the upturned faces of his hearers like waves across a wheatfield on a windy day. And this morning he had been roused.
Then came Bain, who weighed two hundred and seventeen pounds, had been a preacher, and was so mild that if you stood on his corns he would only ask you to get off when it was time to go to class. He was followed by Skeeter Wilson, the human dumpling, and Billings, who always carried an umbrella to classes and who had it with him then.
Sunday was a hot and quiet day. The stores were closed and the two churches also, this not being the Sunday for the itinerant preacher. The jail also showed no sign of life, and when we asked about it, we learned that it was empty, and had been for some time. No liquor is sold in the place, nor within at least three miles of it. It is not much use to try to run a jail without liquor.
I wish I had room to tell, but I cannot, of all the crowded experiences of that day the renewal of acquaintance with the fields, the cattle, the fowls, the bees, of my long talks with Harriet and Dick Sheridan, who had cared for my work while I was away; of the wonderful visit of the Scotch Preacher, of Horace's shrewd and whimsical comments upon the general absurdity of the head of the Grayson family oh, of a thousand things and how when I went into my study and took up the nearest book in my favourite case it chanced to be "The Bible in Spain" it opened of itself at one of my favourite passages, the one beginning: "Mistos amande, I am content "
The preacher uttered nothing that could in the least wound, the brother and sister of whose hospitality he had partaken, but he said much that smote upon their hearts, and made them painfully conscious that they had not shown as much kindness to the stranger as he had been entitled to receive on the broad principles of humanity. But they suffered most from mortification of feeling.
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