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Whene'er a wise man spies me, straight he chides * Love, that misleads me thus in ways unwise: O Lord, I lack the power this dole to bear: * Come sudden Death or joy in bestest guise!"
God himself is working; His great thought wearieth not, nor standeth still, In every throb of his vast heart is lurking Some mighty purpose of his mightier will. Wherefore idle? Not a leaf's slight rustle But chides thee in thy vain, inglorious rest; Be a strong actor in the great world, bustle, Not a, weak minion or a pampered guest! Wherefore idle? Oh I my faint soul, wherefore?
He chides with Fortune "that did not better for my life provide than public means that public manners breed"; he writhes at the thought that he has "made himself a motley to the view" of the gaping apprentices in the pit of Blackfriars. "Thence comes it," he adds, "that my name receives a brand, and almost thence my nature is subdued to that it works in."
The apostle, in dread of its subsidence, cries out, "Keep yourselves in the love of God." How readily the Church, in interest and zeal, becomes cold. Her spiritual pulse sinks till it is scarcely perceptible; the flames disappear, and the coals lie hidden in their own grey ashes. With such conditions the Lord is vexed. He gently chides His inconstant Bride, saying, "Thou hast left thy first love.
"If Uncle Abraham comes, sure he will bring Jacob with him; he always does. If it were Rachel I would not mind; but I cannot abear Jacob, with his great hairy hands and fat cheeks. And if I be pert to him, my father chides; and if I be kind, he makes me past all patience with his rolling eyes and foolish ways and words. I know what they all think; but I'll none of him!
Even so, superficial listeners blame the music, in which a discord is heard, which the harper has only evoked from the strings that his hearers may more deeply feel the purity of the succeeding harmony; even so, a fool blames the painter who has colored his board with black, and does not wait for the completion of the picture which shall be thrown into clearer relief by the dark background; even so, a child chides the noble tree, whose fruit rots, that a new life may spring up from its kernel.
"I could not have believed it!" answered the other, gravely; "I thought I was listening to the truth, from the lips of my lady's chaplain." "And who says, that I do not teach the truth? I, who have made it my study and delight from my youth upwards?" "Not I, truly; but your reverence chides me for believing in error, when, my belief is daily confirmed by your own instructions and example."
Monte Rosa chides us for not partaking of her prepared visions. The kingdoms of the world France, Switzerland, Italy are at our feet. One hundred and twenty snow-peaks flame like huge altar piles in the morning sun. The exhilarant air gives ecstasy to body, the new visions intensity of feeling to soul. The Old World has sunk out of sight. This is Mount Zion, the city of God.
The Master invites them, He calls them, He sends His ministers in search of them, He reproves and chides them, He thunders against them to make them hear and obey; but they will not come, they shall never taste of His banquet. He has not spread a table for the proud, the haughty, the arrogant; He cannot meet in loving communion the worldly, the sensuous, the lovers of ease and hurtful pleasures.
What is this garden but the world? What is the fruit they here found? Of this the boys ate. The mother chides them for taking that which did not belong to them, but she did not know that it grew in the devil's garden.
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