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His consciousness of his own wickedness incited him to attack his faithful reprover with open insolence and printed accusations. Such an attack made defence necessary; and we hope it will be at last decided that the means of defence were just and lawful. When I read this to Mr. Burke, he was highly pleased, and exclaimed, 'Well; he does his work in a workman-like manner. Mr.
'He my cousin! cried Cathy, with a scornful laugh. 'Yes, indeed, responded her reprover. 'Oh, Ellen! don't let them say such things, she pursued in great trouble. 'Papa is gone to fetch my cousin from London: my cousin is a gentleman's son. That my she stopped, and wept outright; upset at the bare notion of relationship with such a clown.
These and similar observations gradually unhinged the principles of young George, and before reaching their destined port, his checks of conscience were almost gone. What a dreadful state, when man's conscience ceases to be his reprover!
He had renounced high prospects in the church, and contented himself with the simple abbacy of Clairvaux, in order that he might have the leisure he desired, to raise his powerful voice against abuses wherever he found them. Vice met in him an austere and uncompromising reprover; no man was too high for his reproach, and none too low for his sympathy.
"Pull away, my lad," said the captain, in the softest tones of his deep voice, at the same time looking his reprover straight in the face. There was something in the tone in which that simple command was given, and in the look by which it was accompanied; that effectually quelled John Bumpus in spite of himself.
After all, I have better anticipations perhaps thy wonderful advancement to the crown was intended by him who sometimes conceals his plans of mercy in clouds of mystery, for the very purpose of accomplishing the deliverance of Israel at this critical emergency. Mordecai, in this appeal, shines as a "wise reprover;" and it was "upon an obedient ear." He is, moreover, illustrious as a man of faith.
Now, I might lose all these elements of manhood if I learned to smoke." Dear grandma is one of those who "being dead yet speaketh." She was not a preacher, or a lecturer much less a censurer or reprover; but she was that most agreeable of teachers to childhood and youth, a story-teller.
What did that mean? "Because it knew him not." How did it not know Him; He was in the midst of men; He lived no hidden life; the world knew Him well enough as a benefactor, a teacher, a reprover; in what sense did it not know Him? And I remembered, it did not know Him as one of its own party. He was "this fellow," and "the deceiver;" "the Nazarene;" "they called the master of the house Beelzebub."
Not long after, they made a second visit to their sober friends, spending several days, during which they attended a meeting, in a neighboring farmhouse, where we are introduced by Ellwood to two remarkable personages, Edward Burrough, the friend and fearless reprover of Cromwell, and by far the most eloquent preacher of his sect and James Nayler, whose melancholy after-history of fanaticism, cruel sufferings, and beautiful repentance, is so well known to the readers of English history under the Protectorate.
Heliogaba'lus was succeeded by Alexander, his cousin-german, who, being declared emperor without opposition, the senate, with their usual adulation, were for conferring new titles upon him; but he modestly declined them all. 2. To the most rigid justice he added the greatest humanity. He loved the good, and was a severe reprover of the lewd and infamous.
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