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Not a flash of expression in his strong face showed that he felt any resentment or dismay at thus having some of his most prominent church members backslide from his prayer meeting into a fox-trot, and yet I knew knew that he fully appreciated the situation and laid the blame of it where the blame was due.
"And then ?" "So far as is known the converted enemy to Society did not backslide; the Lone Wolf never prowled again." "An extraordinary story." "But is not every story that has to do with the workings of the human soul? What one of us has not buried in him a story quite as strange? Even you " "Monsieur deceives himself. I am simply what you see."
Anyhow, if I did let him brand me I'd only backslide in a week," and Hopalong pressed his pony to a more rapid gait as two men emerged from the tent. "There's the sky-pilot now," he muttered "an' there's Dave!" he shouted, waving his arm. "Oh, Dave! Dave!" Dave Wilkes looked up, and his grin of delight threatened to engulf his ears. "Hullo, Cassidy! Glad to see you!
Tell 'im I've got a case heer wuth more 'n a whole bench full o' them scrubs 'at'll backslide as soon as meetin' 's over; tell 'im to whoop 'em up. Sister Bradley, you are addin' more feathers to yore wings right now 'an you ever sprouted in one day o' the Lord's labor. But, for all you do, hold on to that blasted devil's contraption. He meant the bonnet.
A long pause followed this expression of opinion, this simple division of the human race, at the start, into sheep and goats. Then presently the untiring voice broke the stillness again. "Nathan and Hetty slid back when they went away from here. Did we backslide when we left Fardie and Jack?" "I'm not sure but that we did," said poor Susanna.
It is one of the tricks of the enemy by trials and discouragement to make the ministers doubt their calling. When your call is once settled, do not go over it again and again to find out whether God is in earnest about it. If you should backslide, of course, then you should wait until God makes clear his will to you again.
A member of Benny Haven's church has a right to backslide anywhere, especially as the Colonel doesn't seem to be any worse than some of the rest of us, who haven't fallen from grace the least particle, but took our stand at the start just where we are now. A fellow that begins with a handful of trumps has a right to play a risky game." "I know what euchered him, Wallis.
He was sitting erect now, drinking in the words of Sinclair, as if they were air to a stifling man. His face worked. "Why are you doing this for me, Sinclair after I landed you here?" "Because I made a man out of you once," answered the tall man evenly, "and I ain't going to see you backslide.
Brown herself used to say that the "sugar in his'n turned to gall before the backslide ended." People who knew her never doubted it. But Elder Brown's sin during the remainder of the day contained an element of responsibility. As he moved majestically down toward where Balaam slept in the sunlight, he felt no fatigue.
Mamma! you can't backslide now ever." "My little baby, who's helped me through such bad times, it's your turn now, Alma, to be care free like other girls." "I'll never leave you, mamma, even if he Latz shouldn't want me." "He will, darling, and does! Those were his words. 'A room for Alma." "I'll never leave you!" "You will!
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