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After a few minutes he rose: "Once in every three hours," said he, with a ghastly expression, "for the last twelve years have I bowed my soul in anguish before God, and risen to feel that it was in vain: I am cursed without and within!" "My Father, my Father, is this your faith in the mercies of the Redeemer who died for man?" "Talk not to me of faith!" cried the Hermit, wildly.
The bishop, a fine old man with a full white beard; raised his kindly eyes as the door closed upon Hannah, fixed them for a few moments on the tips of his fingers that he had raised and then addressed the presbyter who had presented for baptism several candidates who had been grounded during the past year in the Christian faith and doctrine, as follows: "Most of the catechumens you have presented to me cling faithfully no doubt to the Redeemer.
"Do not lament any longer," said Andreas, mildly; "bring your grief as an offering to the crucified Redeemer, and show now that you are Hofer's wife. Farewell, love! Kiss our children! Forward now!" And he led the way with a rapid step. Anna Gertrude, pale as a corpse, trembling and tottering, seized her son's hand and rushed after her husband.
The Lord Jesus, our Redeemer, make you a gude man," said Dr. Morrison fervently, and David whispered a few broken words in his friend's ear. Then Captain Laird's voice was heard, and in a moment or two more they saw by the light of a lifted lantern Robert's white face in the middle of a group on deck. "Farewell!" he shouted feebly, and Dr. Morrison answered it with a lusty, "God speed you, Robert!
The Jews brought the Son of God to Pilate's judgment-seat, that both Jew and Gentile might unite in condemning Him; for it was part of the work of the Redeemer to expose human sin, and here was to be exhibited the ne plus ultra of wickedness, as the hand of humanity was lifted up against its Maker.
Gautama Buddha, passionless and lost in the contemplation of his own excellence, is not the Christian Redeemer, who daily bears our burdens and takes upon himself, in order that he may take away, the sin of the world. And what shall we say of the other deities of the Hindu pantheon, but that they are personifications of every human caprice and vice.
The death of our Redeemer shows us the infinite value of our souls, by showing the inestimable price paid for them, and thus leads us to more diligence in securing their eternal felicity. It is calculated to inspire us with an unfeigned hatred of sin, and more especially to convince us of God's hatred to that, for the pardon of which such a sacrifice was deemed necessary.
They were so crafty in their villany. God be thanked! The poison spares me yet! Alas! what would you? He is thy father! A murderer the murderer of his son; he must along with us that the Judge of the world may pour his wrath on the guilty alone. LOUISA. My dying Redeemer pardoned his murderers, may God pardon thee and thy father! Stay! stay! Fly not from me, angel of light! Mercy!
The next morning Froebel asked his friend what goal in life he had set before him, and Langethal replied: "Like the apostle, I would fain proclaim the gospel to all men according to the best of my powers, in order to bring them into close communion with the Redeemer." Froebel answered, thoughtfully: "If you desire that, you must, like the apostles, know men.
Last evening she was unconscious, and blessed be the name of the Redeemer, for the sickness which has saved her from shame may save her from death." Vinicius placed his hand on the soldier's shoulder to guard himself from falling; but the other continued, "Thank the mercy of the Lord! They took and tortured Linus, but, seeing that he was dying, they surrendered him.
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