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If it be true, all music would require the chastening influence of time, and its spiritual value would be akin to that of the Past and Distant; it would be innocuous, because it had lost half of its vitality.
High jets of gas illumined the great glass chandelier with a rustling of yellow and rosy flames, which rained down a stream of brilliant light from dome to floor. The cardinal velvets of the seats were shot with hues of lake, while all the gilding shone again, the soft green decorations chastening its effect beneath the too-decided paintings of the ceiling.
Her father wore his yoke ungalled; he loved rough work, drew his religion from privations, accepted hardship as the chastening that insures reward. But that her mother's hands should have been folded and have returned to universal clay without ever having fondled the finer things of life this to Pansy was remembrance to start tears on the brightest day.
Girls do not go to their mothers as they might, because they wait till they are sore and conscious and resentful. Most girls would rather be married, and quite right too, in no other state of life will they find such thorough discipline and chastening! it is the only life which makes a true and perfect woman.
What a pity it is that some schools that stand to-day for what we call educational progress are failing in just this particular are sending out into the world an annual crop of boys and girls who must learn the great lesson of self-control and a proper respect for the rights of others in the bitter school of experience, a school in which the rod will never be spared, but whose chastening scourge comes sometimes, alas, too late!
"Doesn't it make you conceited, Courtenay," she asked, "to look at all those foreign newspapers hanging there and know that most of them have got paragraphs and articles about your Persian speech?" Youghal laughed. "There's always a chastening corrective in the thought that some of them may have printed your portrait.
New hopes and ambitions sprang forth in my soul that had so keenly felt God's chastening rod. A year had passed. I was in Arequipa. Chico had my room ready and my friends gave me a splendid banquet in one of the largest restaurants in the city. In all ages the world has had two ways of doing honor to a man.
With the thought of the witness-cloud around us, and "looking off" to the Prince of Faith, ascended, yet present with us, and sure of the ultimate and eternal "fruit of righteousness" which lies hidden in the chastening of the Father of our spirits we too will live by faith, taking God at His word, and saying Amen to His will, even to the end. HEB. xii. 14-28
Yet I almost trembled for fear of making the answer too cordial: Graham's tastes are so fastidious. I wrote it three times chastening and subduing the phrases at every rescript; at last, having confected it till it seemed to me to resemble a morsel of ice flavoured with ever so slight a zest of fruit or sugar, I ventured to seal and despatch it." "Excellent, Paulina!
The King whom a chastening Providence has set over the northern half of the Island, has been our guest for the space of four weeks, together with the gold-bought English woman who is known as his 'Danish wife." The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation.
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