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As much as to say: "Your souls have fallen asleep; you have been in a dark night, not seeing that God would avenge you of all these sins of yours; that God's eye was on them: you have fallen asleep and forgotten your forefathers' belief, that God loves law, and order, and justice, and will punish those who break through them.
The whole world seeth plainly enough already, what we and ours have endured at these men's hands for religion and our only God's cause.
I'll not disturb you to-night, for it is God's will that I should stay up and get very drunk." Some time later the judge was aware of a step on the path beyond his door, and glancing up, saw the tall figure of a man pause on his threshold. A whispered curse slipped from between his lips. Aloud he said: "Is that you, Mr. Mahaffy?"
Her tears and her prayers sounded like an echo down in the hollow form that confined the imprisoned, miserable soul. That soul was overwhelmed by the unexpected love from those realms afar. One of God's angels wept for her! Why was this vouchsafed to her?
There has never been a saint, from Abel's day to our own, who has not been taught the same essential lessons. All prayer which has ever brought down blessing has prevailed by the same law of success the inward impulse of God's Holy Spirit.
To it from long familiarity they had become callous; but death such as this, deliberate, cold-blooded, self-inflicted it awed them while it fascinated, held them silent, passive. "In God's name!" Again it was Landor who roused them, Landor with his hand on the holster at his hip, Landor who sat staring as one who doubts his own sight. "Am I sane, men? Look, there to your right!" They looked.
But why should they be strange or remote? We are destined to live forever in heaven, we are the daily recipients of God's favors, we are sheltered, protected, every way by our Lady's loving care. The things that touch us most nearly are the things of the spiritual world; they are the most thrillingly important; they are the only really important things.
"Sir," replied the young man, "for God's sake do not stop me, let me go, I cannot without horror look upon that abominable barber, who, though he was born in a country where all the natives are white, resembles an Ethiopian; and his soul is yet blacker and more horrible than his face."
For be ye well assured, that if any persons are joined together, otherwise than God's word doth allow, their marriage is not lawful," Bee, who was standing with her mother and father near the bridal circle, looked up at the bride.
"Some other way some other way!" Carling was babbling. "Let me out of this for God's sake, let me out of this!" "Carling," said Jimmie Dale hoarsely, "I stood beside a little bed to-night and looked at a baby girl a little baby girl with golden hair, who smiled as she slept." Carling shivered, and passed a shaking hand across his face.
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