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Amidst it all, the Titanic pride, the godlessness, the scorn, the rudeness, and the violence, amidst it all, this one 'white flower of a blameless life' managed to find nutriment upon the dunghill, and to blossom fresh and fair there. You and I cannot, whatever may be our hindrances in living a consistent Christian life, have anything like the difficulties that this man had and surmounted.
The enormous and unnatural vices, the domestic crimes of cruelty, adultery, and bloodshed, the political scheming and the subtle arts of vengeance, the ecclesiastical tyranny and craft, the cynical scepticism and lustre of luxurious godlessness, which made Italy in the midst of her refinement blaze like 'a bright and ominous star' before the nations; these were the very elements in which the genius of Webster salamander-like in flame could live and flourish.
But the descent is steep, though the distance is long; and the 'simple' who begins to do what is wrong will come to sneer at what is right. Then last comes the 'fool, the name which, in Proverbs, is shorthand for mental stupidity, moral obstinacy, and dogged godlessness, a foul compound, but one which is realised oftener than we think.
She may recommend me to her husband. I shall be a faithful servant, and I have given a proof of my faithfulness, for I have no written testimonials." "You wish to be Topándy's steward? Do you know what a godless man he is?" "That is why I am in search of him. I started direct for him. They expelled me from school for my godlessness. We cannot accuse each other of anything."
A rebel art thou, and no warrior of the righteous God; wheel and gallows are thy goal on earth gallows and, in the life to come, damnation which is ordained for crime and godlessness. Wittenberg, etc.
Further, Belshazzar, the type of godlessness, had desecrated the sacrificial vessels by using them for his drunken carouse, and therein had done just what we do when we take the powers of heart and mind and will, which are meant to be filled with affections, thoughts, and purposes, that are 'an odour of a sweet smell, well-pleasing to God, and desecrate them by pouring from them libations before creatures.
The experience of the fruits of their godlessness will make godless men wish to escape eating the fruits and that wish shall be vain. It is not for us to enlarge on such words, but it is for us all to lay them to heart, and to take heed that we listen now to the beseeching call of the heavenly Wisdom in its tenderest and noblest form, as it appeared in Christ, the Incarnate Word.
Twice is it repeated that Jehovah was with David, and that he 'behaved himself wisely, which last statement includes in the Hebrew word both the idea of prudence and that of success. So, on the one hand, there is a steady growth in all good, godly, and happy qualities and experiences; and on the other, a tragical increase of darkness and gloom, godlessness and despair.
The whole system was indeed at first attacked; and while we had formerly been charged with godlessness, we were now charged with ``indifferentism'' whatever that might mean. But I have had the pleasure of living to see this system adopted at other leading universities of our country, and it is evidently on its way to become the prevailing system among all of them.
They thought it was a soul in pain risen from one of the graves, and some of the women, forgetting the last few years of godlessness, hastily crossed themselves, and muttered an invocation to the Virgin Mary. Within the gates all was silent and at peace.
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