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To despond, I thought, would be mistrusting the Bounty of our Creator, and might be the ready way to plunge me into the Miseries Men naturally apprehend in my Circumstances. I therefore heartily recommended me to the Divine Protection, and enter'd the Woods which lay along the Coast.
We have now entered on an auspicious period in the history of the mission. Geog Tapa became the radiant centre of spiritual life. The preceding year had been one of apprehension, but the brethren now learned not to despond every time the heavens gathered blackness, for in the darkest hour the sun may break forth and change the whole scene.
It was a sweet indolence of the mind, which made one of her most beautiful traits of character; there is something so unselfish in tempers reluctant to despond.
Dare, despairingly, sinking into a chair near the table, and letting his head fall in a distracting fashion into his hands. He seems lost in thought, sunk in a very slough of despond, out of which it seems impossible to him he can ever be extricated. He has turned away his face, lest he shall see the little disconsolate figure in the other arm-chair, that looked so many degrees too large for it.
The confidence of bad men and the despair of good men proceed equally from a too fixed attention to the facts and events before their eyes, to the exclusion of the principles which underlie and animate them; for no insight of principles, and of the moral laws which govern human events, could ever cause tyrants to exult or philanthropists to despond.
'Man is born to sorrow as the sparks fly upward, and Job was accounted wise in his generation." "That was a cry from the depths of despond; but Job stood, at last, upon the heights, and felt once more God's blessed sun, and rejoiced even as we should.
"Now for thyself—beware of women! Go not forth alone ever, or without armed followers! Sleep not, but with a woman in thy chamber, and a watcher at thy door! Eat not, nor drink, any thing abroad; nor at home, save that which is prepared by known hands, and tasted by the slave who serves it! "Be true to Paullus, and yourself, and you have a friend ever watchful. So fear not, nor despond!
For my own part, I rejoiced over every additional delay, as I was loth to leave Winnipeg, and the many kind friends I had made there. A Manitoban Travelling-carriage The Perils of Short Cuts The Slough of Despond Paddy to the Rescue! "Stick-in-the-Mud" and his Troubles McQuade's An Irish Welcome Wretched Wanderers.
And by them it was declared that a great temperance demonstration was at this time desirable. Such a demonstration would do good in many ways. It would revive the drooping spirits of those who were inclined to despond as to the prosperity of the cause.
The officer's laughter was loud at the corner of the next traverse, when there was an abrupt descent into a slough of despond. "And I hope they can swim!" said an ironical voice from a dugout, as the officers passed. They were lying in wet mud in those square burrows, the men who had been working all night under their platoon commanders, and were now sleeping and resting in their trench dwellings.
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