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The whole of those two weeks I never asked the Lord for money or for persons to engage in the work. On December 5th, however, the subject of my prayer all at once became different. I was reading Psalm lxxxi., and was particularly struck, more than at any time before, with verse 10: "Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it."
"The ugly bear now minded not the stake, Nor how the cruel mastiffs do him tear, The stag lay still unroused from the brake, The foamy boar feared not the hunter's spear: All thing was still in desert, bush, and briar:" Thomas Sackville; "The Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham," lxxxi.
Hos. xiv. 5-7. Ps. lxxxi. 13-16. Ps. iv. 7. Ps. xvi. 6. Ps. xix. 10. Ps. xxviii. 7. Ps. lxv. 4. Easter. 1 John iii. 2. Rev. i. 14-16. Wisd. v. 2-5. Mental Prayer. "Pray without ceasing." 1 Thess. v. 17. There are two modes of praying mentioned in Scripture; the one is prayer at set times and places, and in set forms; the other is what the text speaks of, continual or habitual prayer.
A man with a dagger looking sorrowfully at a child, who turns its back to him. I cannot understand this figure. SECTION LXXXI. THIRTEENTH CAPITAL. It has lions' heads all round, coarsely cut. FOURTEENTH CAPITAL. It has various animals, each sitting on its haunches.
Brother Craik told me this morning, that his voice is getting a little better. December 5. This evening I was struck, in reading the Scriptures, with these words: "Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it." Ps. lxxxi. 10. Up to this day I had not prayed at all concerning the means or individuals needed for the Orphan-House.
If those days do not suit you, a word, and I shall communicate with you again. Have the kindness to put the address on the ENCLOSED letter and to put it in the mail. LXXXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 21 Thursday May, 1868
LXXXI. During the whole course of his life, he suffered, at times, dangerous fits of sickness, especially after the conquest of Cantabria; when his liver being injured by a defluxion upon it, he was reduced to such a condition, that he was obliged to undergo a desperate and doubtful method of cure: for warm applications having no effect, Antonius Musa directed the use of those which were cold.
Even prosaic China makes offerings to the yellow orb of day; the wandering Celts and Teutons held feasts to it, amidst the primeval forests of Northern Europe; and, with a savagery characteristic of the American aborigines, the sun temples of Mexico streamed with human blood in honor of the beneficent orb." The Castes and Creeds of India, Blackw. Mag., vol. lxxxi. p. 317.
I, pp. lxxxi ff., and Skinner, Genesis, pp. 45 ff. Gen. i. 6-8. In the case of the Deluge traditions, so conclusive a demonstration is not possible, since we have no similar criterion to apply. And on one point, as we saw, the Hebrew Versions preserve an original Sumerian strand of the narrative that was not woven into the Gilgamesh Epic, where there is no parallel to the piety of Noah.
The whole of those two weeks I never asked the Lord for money, or for persons to engage in the work. On December 5th, however, the subject of my prayer all at once became different. I was reading Psalm lxxxi, and was particularly struck, more than at any time before, with ver. 10: "Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it."
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