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Updated: June 16, 2025
"I didn't write to you on the occasion of the death of your two children because you knew I didn't like you," said this outspoken lady. "I hate hypocrisy. Also I thought that tribulation might chasten you in the eyes of the Lord. I've discussed it with our Minister, a poor body, but a courageous man. He told me I was unchristian.
You must be chastened, and the only way to chasten a man and make him humble is to turn him loose to fight with the pack for a while. Consequently I'm going to turn you loose, Matt; there are some wolves along California Street that will take your twenty thousand away from you so fast that you won't know it's going till it's gone.
Such a nature, through pain and love, can learn to chasten his base desires, and to choose the nobler and worthier way. But what does really differentiate men and women is not their power of fearing and suffering, but their power of caring and admiring.
These, said she, are apt to fall into that sad mistake, that because their children are poor, and have little of this world's goods, the mothers must make it up to them in false indulgence. The children of the gentry are much more reproved and corrected for their faults, and bred up in far stricter discipline. He was a king who said, Chasten thy son, and let not thy rod spare for his crying.
Well, perhaps if we call to mind with what an utter shock the events of that terrific twenty four hours came, intensified the more by the unexpectedness and the suddenness of it; and then if perhaps we may call to mind the more recent behaviour of some modern disciples who have had enormous advantages over them in regard to that terrific experience it may chasten our feelings a bit and soften the edge of our thought about them.
"Thou thinkest, then, mother," replied Philippa with a sigh, "that we cannot understand the matter at all." "We can understand only what is revealed to us," replied Isabel; "and that, I grant, is but little; yet it is enough. `As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. `What son is he whom the father chasteneth not? How could it be otherwise?
If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men ... but My mercy shall not depart from him. III. The startling addition to the cry. 'As we forgive. Is, then, our poor forgiveness the measure or condition of God's? At first sight that addition seems to impose a limit on His pardon which might well plunge us into despair.
That old age, when it comes, may chasten us, humble us, soften us; and that our second childhood may be a second childhood indeed, purged from the conceit, the scheming, the fierceness, the covetousness which so easily beset us in our youth and manhood; and tempered down to gentleness, patience, humility, and faith.
"If we cannot make decisions, even when we decide wrongly, then we are not men!" "We must kill the Publican, we must subdue the Priest, we must humiliate the Politician, and chasten the Poet...." "In all our ways, O God, let us guide ourselves!..."
Well, we'll go and look upon the Cornmealious Gosling-Green, M.P.'s, and chasten our soul from sinful pride ain't it, Mrs. MacDougall?" and the Professor strolled across to the Sports Club for a cup of tea.
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