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Thus was the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus made known to the Mother Mary of the Incarnation long before it was revealed to the world through another of its fervent clients. All through her remaining life, she cherished a most ardent devotion to that ever- adorable Heart. She offered nothing to God, she asked nothing of Him, except through it.

It was raining, but I am an Englishman and the law is sacred, and I went outside into the public highway and looked at the tall thin tree from the new point of view. Sure enough very far up there was a bough overhanging the public footpath. I looked up at it and shook my fist menacingly, but it waved its twigs in response with an irritating amiability.

I should dread the bondage of individuals to the power of the mass, while Association, by identifying the interests of the many and the few the less gifted and the highly gifted secures the sacred personality of all, gives to each individual the largest liberty of the children of God. "Such are my present views, subject to any modification which farther light may produce.

The sacred rites over, two girls ran to the other side of the room, and between them brought forward a rough table covered with dishes and bread; while the mother, taking off a large pot, emptied its smoking contents into the different vessels.

I suppose I needn't say that it's your intention not to be caught be these fellows again." "By the sacred " "Whisht," said Frank, clapping his hand upon his mouth; "there's no use at all in rash oaths, Art.

This prophecy may have made them the more unwilling to yield to the Spaniards, in respect of religious faith, despite the signs and wonders that were shown to them. When chief Guarionex raided a Spanish chapel and destroyed the sacred images within, the shattered statues were buried in a garden, and the turnips and radishes planted there came up in the form of the cross.

The Gomarite doctrine gained most favour with the clergy, the Arminian creed with the municipal magistracies. The magistrates claimed that decisions concerning religious matters belonged to the supreme authority. The Gomarites contended that sacred matters should be referred to synods of the clergy. Here was the germ of a conflict which might one day shake the republic to its foundations.

Not far from the town of Nyssa, says he, there is a place called Charaka, where we find a grove and temple sacred to Pluto and Proserpine, and close to the grove a subterraneous cave, of a most extraordinary nature.

A sense of nationality had come into existence, and a permanent, "sacred" union of all the States was the corollary of that belief.

This compact having been concluded, the sacred insignia were transported from Yoshino to Kyoto with all solemnity. Six Court nobles accompanied them from the South; twenty went out from the North to receive them, and a numerous body of troops formed the escort.