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There was one person who remained absolutely silent while the others sang Tom Robinson's praises, and it might be her silence which called her sisters' attention to her. "I wonder what you would have, Dora?" said Rose, with several shades of superciliousness in her voice and in her lifted-up nose.
But he is most wonderful !" The child spread her hands and drew a deep breath. "More wonderful than father?" It was an idle, laughing question while she studied the lifted-up face. "More wonderful than father yes " The child nodded gravely. "I can't quite tell you, mother-dear, how it feels " She laid a tiny hand on her chest. Her eyes were full of thought.
Only a half-hour since, Ardea Dabney had put her hand in his when she had said good-by, and that feeling was the kind you have when you have climbed through breathless summer woods to a high mountain top and the cool breeze blows through your hair and makes you quietly glad and lifted-up and satisfied.
"Stephen Langside, can you stand up before God and man to-day?" The old man rose, and, supported by two young farmers, lifted-up a face full of light and confidence. "They tell me that you are ninety-eight years old, and that this is the seventy-first time that you will renew your covenant with the eternal Father. Bear witness this day of him." "His word is sure as t' everlasting hills!
Could a copy now occur, Lord only knows, he ejaculated, with a deep sigh and lifted-up hands, 'Lord only knows what would be its ransom! and yet it was originally secured, by skill and research, for the easy equivalent of twopence sterling. Happy, thrice happy, Snuffy Davie! and blessed were the times when thy industry could be so rewarded!"
Askew's sale," continued the old gentleman, kindling as he spoke, "this inestimable treasure blazed forth in its full value, and was purchased by Royalty itself for one hundred and seventy pounds! Could a copy now occur, Lord only knows," he ejaculated, with a deep sigh and lifted-up hands "Lord only knows what would be its ransom; and yet it was originally secured, by skill and research, for the easy equivalent of two-pence sterling. * Happy, thrice happy, Snuffy Davie! and blessed were the times when thy industry could be so rewarded!
Askew's sale," continued the old gentleman, kindling as he spoke, "this inestimable treasure blazed forth in its full value, and was purchased by Royalty itself for one hundred and seventy pounds! Could a copy now occur, Lord only knows," he ejaculated, with a deep sigh and lifted-up hands "Lord only knows what would be its ransom; and yet it was originally secured, by skill and research, for the easy equivalent of two-pence sterling. * Happy, thrice happy, Snuffy Davie! and blessed were the times when thy industry could be so rewarded!
'His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord. There are two kinds of lifted-up hearts; one when pride, self-sufficiency, and forgetfulness of God, raise a man to a giddy height, from which God's judgments are sure to cast him down and break him in the fall; one when a lowly heart is raised to high courage and devotion, and 'set on high, because it fears God's name.
Thank God for all these other things! but you cannot heal a man who has poison in his veins by administering cosmetics, and you cannot put out Vesuvius with a jugful of water. If the camp is to be healed, the Christ must be lifted up. III. And now, lastly, here we have the life that comes with a look at the lifted-up Son of Man.
Here we were at home; the sweet assurance of a Saviour's love shone in the faces that now surrounded us; we were on the trail of an evangelist, and Jesus 'lifted-up' had been beheld, making faces beam with thankfulness to Him who had given Himself for them."
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