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I was a wide peace my very being peace! And in my mind whether an echo from the Bible, I do not know were the words: 'I, even I, am he that comforteth thee. I am God, thy saviour! Whereas I had seemed all alone, I was with God, the only withness man can really share! I lifted my eyes; morning was in the east, and the wolves were slinking away over the snow."
Oh, no," said Luther, "but I conclude thus: God himself preacheth, threateneth, reproveth, affrighteth, comforteth, absolveth, administereth the sacraments, etc. As our Saviour Christ saith, 'Whoso heareth you, heareth me; and what ye loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven, etc. Likewise, 'It is not you that speak, but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you."
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert." "But if it pass from a man, that which he loves, and he is left alone, Monsieur?" "That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end."
"They are always fussing to make us happy, and we don't do things for them at all." Katie thought of the words: "As one whom his mother comforteth," which had been in last Sunday's lesson, but did not say them aloud, only it was a comfort to her to think of the other holy words which say of a mother and her child: "She may forget, yet will not I forget thee."
She held it as a woman holds her sucking child; opening out her night-gown impatiently, and holding it close, and brooding over it, and murmuring foolish little words, as over one whom his mother comforteth, and who sucks and is satisfied. It was pitiful and strange to see her wasted dying look, keen and yet vague her immense love. "Preserve me!" groaned James, giving way.
Fourthly, A child when it is in its mother's lap, the mother takes great delight to have that which will he for its comfort; so it is with God's children, they shall he kept on his knee; Isaiah lxvi. 11, "They shall stick and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolation." Ver. 13, "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you."
When I am old and my children compel me to move back near the asylums and hospitals, I shall carry into the city with me a plough; and I shall pray the police to let me go every springtime to the Garden or the Common and there turn a few furrows as one whom still his mother comforteth. It is only a few furrows that I now turn.
He brought them, He led them, He showed them where to plant their feet, first one step, then another, as mothers do to a child when he learneth first to walk. `As a nurse cherisheth her children, the Apostle saith he dealt with his converts: and the Lord useth yet tenderer image, for `as a mother comforteth her babe, saith He, `will I comfort you. Yea, He bids the Prophet Esaias to learn them, `line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little' look you, how careful is God of His nurse-children. `Feed My Lambs, saith He: and lambs may not nibble so hard as sheep.
I was a wide peace my very being peace! And in my mind whether an echo from the Bible, I do not know were the words: 'I, even I, am he that comforteth thee. I am God, thy saviour! Whereas I had seemed all alone, I was with God, the only withness man can really share! I lifted my eyes; morning was in the east, and the wolves were slinking away over the snow."
The gentlemen of the council were all assembled to do the last honors to one whose office had brought them closely together, and I marked that more than one nudged his neighbor to note Ann's more than common beauty, who in her black weed stood among her young brethren and sisters as a consoling angel, who weepeth with them that weep and comforteth the sorrowing.
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