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If the sinner's character is not thereby reformed, and all the while he retains his responsibility, as he must do on the assumption that reformation is possible, and if he continues to choose sin with more diabolical hatred to the good, is it imagined that such a process as this, of continued sin accompanied by continued mental suffering, will at any period render him mere meet to enjoy the holiness of heaven than when he first departed from the world to enter upon his new and strange probation?
And within the next week all the wicked, nervous night-life was abandoned, all the friendships formed there put upon probation, all the soiled sentiment made a thing to be ended surely and forgotten, if possible. There were some wrenches to it all. Camille learns to love sometimes, and Oakhurst, the gambler, does not want to part with one who has stood a friend in an emergency.
In fact, before we can dispense with the world, we must, by a long and severe novitiate by the probation of much thought, and much sorrow by deep and sad conviction of the vanity of all that the world can give us, have raised our selves not in the fervour of an hour, but habitually above the world: an abstraction an idealism which, in our wiser age, how few even of the wisest, can attain!
She was accordingly received in this convent, the regulations of which were so much to her liking, that she performed the task of probation with pleasure, and voluntarily excluded herself from the vanities of this life.
You needn't mind about May-day; it is always too cold for flowers, and you will find more here among your own plants, than on the hills, to fill your baskets," answered Mrs. Minot, hastening to suggest something pleasant to beguile the time of probation. "I can wait.
Prior to his arraignment, the best court practice calls for an investigation by the probation officer, so that the judge may have substantiated facts before him when the case comes up. Whether this is done or not here is the time and place for the social worker who already knows the family to get his knowledge in usable fashion before the court.
"Do you believe we ought to take the plebe right into our midst, and condole with him until we get him over his homesickness? Do you feel that we should overlook all the traditional b.j.ety of the plebe, and admit him to full fellowship without any probation or instruction?" "No," spoke Dick promptly. "I don't believe in patting the plebe on the shoulder and increasing his conceit.
The practice at that time was, in Yorkshire at least, in issuing a certificate of removal for a Friend who had begun to exercise the ministry and was still under probation, to notice the fact of his preaching, without pronouncing a judgment upon it.
"How long," he asked, "does the period of probation last?" "Three months. Then you send in a thesis, and if it is considered satisfactory you become a member." "And if it isn't?" The president did not say. "A thesis," he said, "is generally a paper with a statement of the line of action you propose to adopt, subject to the Society's approval.
The time of probation was hard to Butzbach; not because of the life, which the good Prior tempered to his tenderness, but through the temptations of the Devil, who seemed ever present with him. He was specially tormented with the thought of Johannisberg, and the feeling that he had deserted it. But the wise heads in charge of him gave comfort and stablishment; and he persevered.
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