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Updated: June 25, 2025
"But what is making haste?" he thought, and his conscience at once replied, "Taking illegitimate courses venturesome speculation without means devotion of the soul and body to business in such a way as to demoralise the one and deteriorate the other engaging in the pursuit of wealth hastily and with eager anxieties, which imply that you doubt God's promise to direct and prosper all works committed to Him."
"The best an' the worst men i' the ship!" gasped Joe Slag, amid laughter and hearty congratulations. He was probably right, for it was the young Wesleyan minister and Ned Jarring who had effected this gallant rescue. The performance of a good action has undoubtedly a tendency to elevate, as the perpetration of a bad one has to demoralise.
For there was a long train of causes at work dating back for more than a century, which tended not only to demoralise the nation, but also to cut it off from many influences for good which under happier circumstances the Church might have exercised. The turbulent and unsettled condition of both Church and State in the seventeenth century was bearing its fruit in the eighteenth.
Everywhere the crops have encroached on them, half-hiding them, smothering them, climbing right over them. In one place wheat is ripening out of the very body of a German soldier. Such is the nearest battlefield to Paris. Corporate excursions to it are forbidden, and wisely. For the attraction of the place, were it given play, would completely demoralise Meaux and the entire district.
Many people who will admit that the execution of the murderer may be, abstractly considered, just enough, sincerely doubt whether such execution be expedient, and are in their own minds perfectly certain that it cannot fail to demoralise the spectators. In consequence of this, executions have become rare; and it is quite clear that many scoundrels, well worthy of the noose, contrive to escape it.
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