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Updated: June 3, 2025
Was it Heine or another who said 'The people of Christ is the Christ of peoples'? At any rate, such was the idea that began to take possession of me as I painted away at the sorrow-haunted face of my much-tried model to paint, not the Christ that I had started out to paint, but the Christ incarnated in a race, suffering and who knew that He did not suffer over again? in its Passion.
But we must leave this much-tried pilgrim for a little while, and record the progress of her young disciple on the path which, through much tribulation, led her at last to her sister's side, and to that work which was even now preparing for them both.
It would be too lengthy a task to follow the mind and conscience of this much-tried lady in their intricate workings upon this difficult problem; for she had a mind as logical as any woman's, and a conscience which she wished to keep void of offense. She had to confront a situation involving the element of race, upon which the moral standards of her people were hopelessly confused. Mrs.
"So you can tell Smorthwaite and the rest of 'em that they can come on again on the old terms, but they'll not get a farthing more. Well, boy," as he noticed Frank standing humbly in the background, "what do you want?" Mr Green's manner was that of an incensed and much-tried man, and Frank felt quite afraid to speak. "Please, sir," he said, "do you want a boy in the factory?"
He stood facing her now, his back to the children. "Excuse me" she was smiling up at him "but I thought this was a better preparation." The President frowned. He was a much-tried man a man of charitable parts, who directed or presided over thirty organizations.
He had been a much-tried monarch and the sport of a various fortune, fighting half his life for thrones he didn't care for, and exalted only to be quickly cast down. Provence was the country of his affection, and the memory of his troubles did not prevent him from holding a joyous court at Tarascon and at Aix.
But experience breeds proficiency; and the native servant is an adept in the art of so oiling the wheels that his master shall accomplish his appointed pilgrimage with the least possible damage to his much-tried nervous system. Zyarulla, the indomitable, was a man of this order.
He was well read in the Scriptures, and the example of a religious and much-tried mother had not been without its influence.
Did she still love him, such love could end only in misery; should she hate him who of all men was bound to protect her defencelessness, that were misery indeed! This misgiving, arresting his hand at the instant of delivering the final blow, almost discouraged the much-tried man. He glanced sullenly toward the edge of the cliff, only a few yards off. A new thought jarred through his nerves!
The undertaker seemed shocked at his own stupidity and exerted himself to restore things to the condition in which we left them the night before, so that when Arthur came such shocks to his feelings as we could avoid were saved. Poor fellow! He looked desperately sad and broken. Even his stalwart manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under the strain of his much-tried emotions.
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