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"They might find him, and they might not," Mark Ray said, when the message came down to the office. "They could try, at all events," and in a few moments the telegraphic wires were carrying the news of Katy's illness, both to the West, where Wilford had gone, and to the East, where Helen read with a blanched cheek that Katy perhaps was dying, and she was needed again. This was Mrs.
But he either could not or would not apply himself, so the prize lay unearned in Thomasina's trunk. But he would listen for any length of time to Scripture stories, if they were read or told him, especially to the history of Elisha, and the adventures of the judges.
Sunday is well observed, and, even in localities where no missionary lives, religious meetings are regularly held, and children and adults taught to read by the more advanced of their own fellow-countrymen; and no one is allowed to make a profession of faith by baptism unless he knows how to read, and understands the nature of the Christian religion.
The girl read part of the truth in his heavy eyes and worn face, and tried to force him to take needed rest, but she did not guess that he had not slept for four days and nights.
O pacha! doth not Hafiz say, 'Every moment you enjoy, count it gain. Who can say what will be the event of anything?" "Wallah thaib! well said, by Allah! Then why a book, if the book is sealed?" "Yet there are wise men who can read our Kismet, and foretell." "Yes, very true; but I have observed that it is not until after an event has happened, that they tell you of it. What are these astrologers?
The boys acquired some valuable information by listening to their remarks, and this created a desire to read and learn more; and so they were started off in a career that bids fair to reflect honour both upon themselves and their country. Their early advantages were few, but the conversation of educated men, upon important subjects, laid the foundation of their eminence in public life.
A little later he bought at an auction fifty volumes of the "North American Review," and moving the books up to his home at Port Huron proceeded to read them. The war was on papers sold for ten cents each and business was good. Edison was making money and saving it. He only plunged on books.
Here it is" -and he took it up from the table on which it lay "and if you had turned it over a little more, you would have found this" and he read aloud "'All action is the material result of Thought. Suffering is the result of THINKING INTO PAIN disease the result of THINKING INTO WEAKNESS. Every emotion is the result of wrong or right THINKING, with one exception Love.
"Where is she?" asked Lloyd. "There, that girl in white crossing the room with the fat one in lavender." Lloyd gave a long, critical look, and then said, slowly: "She's the prettiest girl in the room, and she makes me think of something I've read, but I can't recall it." "I know," said Betty, "but you'll laugh at me if I say Tennyson again. It's from 'Maud' "'I kissed her slender hand.
His face lighted up as he read, and a text flashed across his mind: "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear."
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