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The only excuse for holding southern slaves is that they were born in slavery, but we have seen that they were not born in servitude as Jewish servants were, and that the children of heathen servants were not legally subjected to bondage, even under the Mosaic Law. How then have the slaves of the South been obtained?
She smiled as she spoke, but she was in earnest, too, for Mona was dictatorial by nature, and Patty by no means proposed to be tyrannised over. "You shall, Patty! All the time you are here, your word shall be law in this house, both over the servants and myself." "Oh, I can manage the servants," cried Patty, gaily. "I'm rather good at that. Now, if I can only manage you!" "You can!
As for the ministry, one in my profession could scarcely help knowing the grand lives that are hidden in this useless class set apart by the church to push its interests. The ministers are useless only because they are not free. They cannot help themselves. They are slaves, not servants.
The state is so jealous of the exclusive possession of its servants that it would prefer nor can it be blamed in this for functionaries to show their powers with the Venus of Cytherea rather than the Uranian Venus.
Their souls are filled with an eternal unrest. Always they must attempt one thing more; ever they seek something beyond. They would stop the sun and the moon in their courses; they would harness the hurricane; they would chain the everlasting stars. Sea, earth, sky are but their playgrounds; past, present, future their servants; they lust to conquer the unexplored areas of space and time.
So we have not only to look back to the Cross, but up to the Throne. From the Cross we hear a voice, 'It is finished. From the Throne a voice, 'For Zion's sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest. II. Secondly, Christ's servants on earth derive from Him a like perpetual activity for the same object.
"If thou art so very good," answered the poor father, without knowing that he was speaking to his own son, "let me remain here and serve thee among thy faithful servants." "Dear, dear father!" exclaimed Ivan, "thou didst doubt the true song of the nightingale, and now thou seest that our fate was to meet according to the predictions of long ago."
Except this room, and the chamber where he slept, and the servants' wing, the rest of the house was all Elsie's. She was always a restless, wandering child from her early years, and would have her little bed moved from one chamber to another, flitting round as the fancy took her.
Fanny and her young friends were delighted, and while the servants brought up the hampers, and some of the party were spreading the cloth, they employed themselves in conveying jugs of water from the bright stream which flowed by.
These girls had been taken from the workhouses and educated at a charity-school, and would by and by be apprenticed as servants.
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