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But if you will pray with me, do so; if you will give me your blessing, I shall thankfully accept it, for a dying man always likes to feel a blessing-hand on his forehead." The clock struck two, and now the drums commenced rolling, and the death-knell resounded from the church-steeple. An awful silence reigned in the whole city of Braunau. All the houses were closed; all the windows were covered.
The last century witnessed the Protestant Church at its lowest ebb. We thankfully acknowledge that God did not leave Himself without holy men as living witnesses in every branch of that Church. And we record, with deepest gratitude, how, more than in any other country, He preserved in our own country both individual and congregational life, with orthodox standards of faith.
"Every good tradition, and every wholesome and beneficent usage, I accept thankfully as part of the inheritance which good, or wise, or brave men have left as their legacy for my use and assistance; but it is my bounden duty to measure them all by the standard of God's unchanging law: by it I will prove them; I will use them or reject them according as they fit or fail in this measurement, and I will not be brought under the power of any of them."
We may smile at the rude conception, but it will be well for us if we can get as vivid an impression of the fact as He had. We thankfully avail ourselves of modern science to tell us something about the dimensions of this awful universe of ours.
He came, thankfully but cringingly, out to see Katie. "Doggie," said she, "don't be so apologetic. I don't like the apologetic temperament. You were born into this world. You have a right to live in it. Why don't you assert your right?" His answer was to look around for the possible tin can. Watts had approached. "Begging your pardon, Miss Jones, but he's the ungrateful kind.
Jarndyce proposed, knowing my desolate position, that I should go to a first-rate school, where my education should be completed and my comfort secured. What did I say to this? What could I say but accept the proposal thankfully? I passed at this school six happy, quiet years, and then one day came a note from Kenge and Carboy, mentioning that their client, Mr.
'Thankfully, said she, and he led her down, down, under the earth, till they reached a great city. Then he married her, and in course of time she had a son. And the baby was known throughout the city as 'Mohammed with the magic finger, because, whenever he stuck out his little finger, he was able to see anything that was happening for as far as two days' distance.
The supper-bell pealed out, and he heard the cow-men answer it. Now was the appointed moment; he might have no other. With cat-like tread he slipped into the sleeping-quarters, returning in a moment with a revolver. He stared thankfully at the weapon better this than dishonor. "Why didn't I think of it before? It's perfectly simple. I'll accidentally shoot myself in the foot."
Jim Sankey's father wrote saying that the admiral had offered to procure him a berth as a midshipman, at once; and that he had written, thankfully accepting the offer, as he knew that it was what Jim had been most earnestly wishing though, as he had no interest, whatever, among naval men, he had hitherto seen no chance of his being able to obtain such an appointment.
"I should like it above all things," James said thankfully. "Then we will at once go to the tent of the officer commanding this company," Washington said, "and enroll you as a volunteer." On reaching the tent, Washington dismounted and led the way in.
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