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Updated: May 11, 2025
No one could tell stories like the Bishop, and after we had played for a bit, and The Seraph had demonstrated, on the hearthrug, how he could turn a somersault, some one suggested a story. I often thought it a pity that those, who only heard the Bishop preach, should never know how his great talents were wasted in that rôle.
At this moment the Seraph was lost to sight within the sanctuary, receiving there the gift of Life Eternal. A movement of adoration made by the Host of heaven filled the two Seers with ecstasy mingled with terror. They felt that all were prostrate before the Throne, in all the spheres, in the Spheres Divine, in the Spiritual Spheres, and in the Worlds of Darkness.
"You said that you would aid me at any cost, and now that I ask you so wretched a trifle, you treat me as if I were a scoundrel," he moaned passionately. "The Seraph would give you the money at a word. It is your pride nothing but pride. Much pride is worth to us who are penniless beggars!" "If we are penniless beggars, by what right should we borrow of other men?"
Yet when the emperor is beaten in battle and his broad lands are lost, he, shrugging, says, 'In the next battle I may conquer. And when the bearded merchant's ship is lost at sea, he says, 'The next voyage, belike, will be prosperous. Even when the life of an old beggar departs from him in a ditch, he says, 'I trust to be to-morrow a glad young seraph in paradise. Thus hope serves as a cordial for every hurt: but for him who had beheld the loveliness of Freydis there is no hope at all.
I shall feel, in my still solitude, as the Ancient Mariner felt when the seraph band gathered before him: "'No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart." I said that the lenient way in which the old look at the failings of others naturally leads them to judge themselves more charitably.
Between us we hustled him into the bedroom, and shut the door. Angel and I leaned against it, then, in helpless laughter. In a moment I felt my arm squeezed by Angel, who was pointing ecstatically toward the bed. There, by the bedside, his dimpled hands folded, his curly head meekly bent, knelt The Seraph. He was saying his prayers. At Mrs.
The first is, that, as this blessed Patriarch bears the name of Seraphic, because of the Divine love with which he was inflamed, when Jesus Christ, under the figure of a seraph, imprinted on him the sacred stigmata, so St. Bonaventure has been called the Seraphic Doctor, "because his whole doctrine, as well as his whole life, breathes the fire of charity."
Our governess fixed him with her eye. "I was a most decorous and obedient little girl, Alexander, and asked no impertinent questions of my elders." "Was Mary Ellen a fwail little gel?" persisted The Seraph. "No," snapped Mrs. Handsomebody, "judging from her characteristics as a servant, I should say that she was a very riotous, rude little girl. Now drink your milk."
I shall feel, in my still solitude, as the Ancient Mariner felt when the seraph band gathered before him: "'No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart." I said that the lenient way in which the old look at the failings of others naturally leads them to judge themselves more charitably.
While you gaze, another flashes upon you, and another, and another, and at length the whole horizon is filled with gigantic pyres. The stupendous vision has risen so suddenly, that you almost look if you may see the seraph which has flown round and kindled these mighty torches. The glory is inexpressible, and on a scale so vast, that you have no words to describe it.
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