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Updated: May 13, 2025
It has left me a stronger, soberer, wiser, godlier, better man than it found me." How, then, can you make the New Year a blessed one for yourselves? I know but one way, my friends. The ancient way. The Bible way.
Grace drew herself, ever so little, away from the girl, whom she dreaded, and yet sought to propitiate. 'Wiser than I, godlier than I, have said it. But oh, Lois, Lois! he was my first-born.
To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift worthy of him to give and of me to receive. It profanes nobody. In these warm lines the heart will trust itself, as it will not to the tongue, and pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good.
But he had tilled it for years undisturbed and unchallenged. The parcel had come to be known as "Nicky-Nan's Chapel," because on fine Sundays, when godlier folks were in church, he spent so much of his time there, smoking and watching the Channel and thinking his thoughts.
For it is a common saying with them that, "if Christ Himself or the Apostles were alive again, they could not better nor godlier govern God's Church than it is at this present governed by them." They have put in their stead indeed; but it is "chaff instead of wheat," as Hieremy saith, and such things as, according to Esay's words, "God never required at their hands."
The better and godlier part of these persons hence always of their own accord wear a bandage before one of their eyes for this power will often exist only on one side so that they may walk about and deal with their neighbours, without harming them." "Of these I have never heard," replied the stranger.
Was he about to repent him of his sins, and to have done with villainy and treachery; was he minded to slit no more gullets in the future, be faithful to the hand that paid him, and lead a godlier life? Peste! That was a thing that would nowise suit Monsieur de Garnache's ends just then. If Arsenio had a mind to reform, let him postpone that reformation until Garnache should have done with him.
But I shall pray for you, and I will return anon, when perchance your heart shall be softened by the near imminence of your end." "Sir," quoth Crispin wearily, "you would outtalk a woman." "I've done, I've done," he cried in trepidation, making shift to depart. On the threshold he paused again. "I leave you the lanthorn," he said. "May it light you to a godlier frame of mind.
It is a spiritual gift worthy of him to give and of me to receive. It profanes nobody. In these warm lines the heart will trust itself, as it will not to the tongue, and pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good. Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship as not to prejudice its perfect flower by your impatience for its opening.
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