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Thereupon it followeth that tribulation is one cause of comfort unto a man's heart, in that it dischargeth him of the discomfort that he might of reason take of overlong-lasting wealth. Another is, that the scripture much commendeth tribulation as occasion of more profit than wealth and prosperity, not only to those who are therein but to those who resort unto them too.
"I'm clothed in tribulation. Can't explain further. Come on! O, come on!" "Don't go, I tell you, Archie!" And in the bright light of the off lamp, I saw her clutch the after part of his coat as he stood on the foot-board. "I must go, sweetest" "Good lad!" I exclaimed. "I'll be back in a minute. Let go, sweetest." "Don't leave me, Archie. I'm frightened.
A rosary was in his hands; he pulled the beads slowly along the string. Michael had learned to banish impatience in the presence of natives. "I have been in great tribulation," he said. "Did you know that? I am even yet sorely troubled." The African answered with his eyes. "O Lord, give us in our affliction the contentment of mind which may give us patience."
He stepped to his place, over recumbent bodies and leggined and moccasined limbs, and seated himself on the carpet of spruce boughs. Here a tribulation awaited him, the crowning misery of his winter-quarters, worse, as he declares, than cold, heat, and dogs.
Another, we feel, has trodden our dark and stony path, has been shadowed by the shapes of dread which haunt our valley of tribulation: a mind almost infinitely greater than ours has been our fellow-sufferer. He has emerged from the darkness of the shadow of death into the light, whither, as it seems to us, we can scarcely hope to come.
"And yet," said he, very kindly, "we who are Christians may and ought to learn to take troubles hopefully, for 'tribulation worketh patience, and patience, that is, quiet waiting on God, 'works experience' of his goodness and faithfulness; and 'experience worketh hope, and that 'hope, we know, 'maketh not ashamed. " "I know it," said Fleda; "but, Mr.
At this moment the loud ringing of a bell was heard, accompanied by the voice of Lurline, speaking in tones of great tribulation. "Patrick! Patrick! do you not hear the bell? Come here quickly! What's to be done? Such a calamity! It's dreadful! dreadful!"
With the gentle poet you will be able to murmur: /P "Sweet the hour of tribulation, When the heart can freely sigh, And the tear of resignation Twinkles in the mournful eye." Jim Travers was laid away to rest in the beautiful country cemetery near the home of Farmer Pitcairn, and between it and the town of Bellemore.
And now might we have been at rest, and have thanked God on our knees by day and night. For, besides mercifully saving us out of such great tribulation, he turned the hearts of my beloved flock, so that they knew not how to do enough for us. Every day they brought us fish, meat, eggs, sausages, and whatsoe'er besides they could give me, and which I have since forgotten.
France possesses, equally with ourselves, a record of these principles in its famous "Declaration of the Rights of Man," born also in a period of great national tribulation. That document is in principle identical with our own great Charter.
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