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And especially in truth towards God, in whole-hearted devotion to him, or as the Bible says again, in "wholly following the Lord," there is strength and healing; "quietness and assurance for ever." I was no nearer despair now than I had been before. And I was more ready for my holiday.
However, every practical library includes books of inspirational character, and if one makes a study of the books written by great authors it will be found that all of them profited by the reading of books which caused them to think. The Bible causes us to think! and no library is complete without it.
"O! they can get that read to them all they need." "It seems to me, mamma, the Bible is for every one to read themselves. They need it a great many times when there is nobody to read it." "Eva, you are an odd child," said her mother. "Miss Ophelia has taught Topsy to read," continued Eva. "Yes, and you see how much good it does. Topsy is the worst creature I ever saw!"
While the process of change implied in evolution is covered up in endless eons of time it is change nevertheless. The Bible does not say that reproduction shall be nearly according to kind or seemingly according to kind.
For his part, he believed the Eleventh Commandment was, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, because he'll get it." "Read your Bible!" Mrs. Maitland retorted; "then you'll know enough to call it a Beatitude, not a Commandment." Mr. Ferguson snorted again. "Bible? It's all I can do to get time to read my paper. I'm worked to death," he reproached her.
Before I wrote I knew not what I was going to write. And after I had written, I remembered nothing of what I had penned; nor could I make use of any part of it for the help of souls. Thus the Lord made me go on with an explanation of the holy internal sense of the Scriptures. I had no other book but the Bible, nor ever made use of any but that, and without even seeking for any.
"Do you suppose there can be seven devils in my tongue, Lark, like there are in the Bible?" "I don't remember there being seven devils in the Bible," said Lark. "Oh, I mean the the possessed people it tells about in the Bible, crazy, I suppose it means. Somehow I just can't help repeating " "You don't want to," said Lark, not without sympathy. "You think it's such fun, you know."
'Only crying because of what I said, answered Maurice. 'So childish, and you are just as bad. 'But do you mean to say, exclaimed Lily, 'that you set this human theory above the authority of the Bible? 'It is common sense, said Maurice; 'I could make a rainbow any day. Whereupon Phyllis cried the more, and Lily looked infinitely shocked.
For if there is any truth in the Bible, if there is any truth in those oracles which soar above all human authority, or if any thing be established as a general fact, by the experience of mankind, in this first third of human life the character is formed. And what sort of a character is likely to be made by this process, this experimental system of instruction?
Jacques, on the other hand, read it, or listened to his friend, with that philosophic gravity of countenance and earnestness of purpose which he displayed in regard to everything; and deep, serious, and protracted were the discussions they entered into, as night after night they sat on a log, with the Bible spread out before them, and read by the light of the blazing fire in the men's house at Stoney Creek.
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