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'He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him. 'Of how much sorer punishment...shall he be thought worthy, who keeps to himself the food of the world? Lepers were strange messengers of good, but the message graces the bringer, and they who tell good tidings are sure of a welcome. God does not choose great men for the heralds of His mercy, but the qualification is personal experience.
If he do no more than figure in the army at Bosworth Field, or look imposing in a doorway; if he never play any but the smallest parts; if in these respects he be no better than men who could not pass an examination in any branch of knowledge he has no more reason to complain than the highly-educated man who longs to write poetry, and possesses every qualification save the poetic faculty.
"I understand the amendment to include," said Mr. Willey, "the qualification of reading generally, and also of writing his name; two tests, one the reading generally, and the other the writing his own name." "Where is its precision?" asked Mr. Cowan; "where is it to end, and who shall determine its limits?
Ferdinand put not forth the whole strength of his accomplishments at once, but contrived to spring a new mine of qualification every day, to the surprise and admiration of all his acquaintance.
He asserts, without qualification, that the women both politically and socially enjoy a position superior to that of the men. The eldest women in the clans exercise the most decisive influence in the conduct of affairs; the head men do nothing without full consultation with them, and their power extends to affairs of state and even to foreign politics.
The English models, however, wait patiently in London, as a rule, till the artists come back. Nearly all of them live with their parents, and help to support the house. They have every qualification for being immortalised in art except that of beautiful hands. The hands of the English model are nearly always coarse and red.
Eyre has, however secured for himself a name for courage and perseverance, under the most terrible circumstances that could well beset a man, and this qualification leads us to overlook his errors of judgment.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the State for which he shall be chosen." These and no other qualifications are worded or found in the Constitution of the United States touching the qualification of Senators.
The Bible must not teach anything that man can teach himself. Does the doctrine require a revelation? then nobody but God can teach it. Does it require none? then in whatever case God has qualified man to do a thing for himself, he has in that very qualification silently laid an injunction upon man to do it, by giving the power.
"You see, if any of you had taken up the study from pure philan- thropy, as some people do -well, at any rate in George Macdonald's novels- it would have been the very qualification. But I had little hope from the time that the fortune came.
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