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He rose and looked down upon her, steadying her by the magnetic strength in his face, his eyes wild with the intensity of his belief. "Whom He loveth, He chasteneth," he said. "It is granted thee to know the depth of the meaning of those holy words.
Hence the suffering that is inflicted is not punishment; it is discipline; the Fatherly infliction of love. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." And what is the divine intention of this chastisement or discipline? Is it not the production of a worthy character? In this case it is no less than the re-creation of a character.
You raised my dying head from the earth and laid it on your bosom. O, my father! He who brought us so together in his own appointed time, chasteneth every son whom he receiveth, and has thus proved his love and pardon to your contrite heart, both on earth and in heaven, by the nature of your chastisement and the healing balm at its close!"
He smoked his big pipe, smiled, went to prayers and waited. When the French soldiers had gutted his safe, he sighed, shrugged his shoulders, and said: "It is the Lord's will those whom He loveth He chasteneth. Blessed be the name of the Lord." He waited. Rothschild brought his children up to economize time and money, and to be useful.
Her poise, her gentleness, her dignity, were the effects which people saw. Her force people felt. And this is why we cannot of ourselves add one cubit to our stature. It is God who changes, who cleanses us of our levity with the fire of trial. Happy, thrice happy, those whom He chasteneth. And yet how many are there who could not bear the fire who would cry out at the flame.
Beulah raised the lid, and there lay her clothes, the books Eugene had given her; two or three faded, worn-out garments of Lilly's, and an old Bible. The tears froze in her eyes, as she took out the last, and opened it at the ribbon mark. These words greeted her: "Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth."
It is true that sickness and all sorts of troubles are sent to correct and amend in us whatsoever doth offend the eye of our heavenly Father. It is true, and you will find it true, that whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. All Saints' Day Sermons. "That ye through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope," says St. Paul; and, again, "Let patience have her perfect work."
"Verily," said "Miss Margaret," "'whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth. We are told in the Lord's Word that 'the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children, even unto the third and fourth generations, and do you suppose the Lord would have told us that, if He had not known there would be such children?" I cannot pass over this part of my story without bringing forward Mrs.
It is true, and you will find it true, that sickness and all sorts of troubles, are sent to correct and amend in us whatever doth offend the eyes of our Heavenly Father. It is true, and you will find it true, that whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
But if you believe that I have the will and the power to serve the State if you recognise, even in the reverses and calamities I have known and mastered, the protecting hand of the Saviour of Nations if those reverses were but the mercies of Him who chasteneth necessary, it may be, to correct my earlier daring and sharpen yet more my intellect if, in a word, thou believest me one whom, whatever be his faults, God hath preserved for the sake of Rome, forget that you are a Colonna remember only that you are a Roman!"
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