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And in cultivating your soul, don't forget that a woman's heart is her sweetest, rarest treasure after all!" He released her gently. "There! My sermon's over and so, apparently, is the rain. And that blithe footstep I hear outside surely heralds the approach of Mrs. Spencer!" He was right. After a loud knock the door opened briskly to disclose Mrs.
"We are all going to church to-morrow, 'cause your father is going to preach about the Rest, pray over it too, and mother's going to sing the offertory, two verses, if the sermon's too long, and three if it isn't. You tell your father that, for singing is much more interesting than preaching any day." "Ethelwyn!" "Why it is, mother."
For the gold was the part that would never die, and the clay was jest the mortal part that we dropped when this mortal shall have put on immortality. "Child, that sermon's come home to me many a time when I've caught myself weighin' people in the balance and findin' 'em wantin'. That's what I'd been doin' all them years with pore Harvey.
The pastor's recent communion with new-born souls had quickened his own heart and increased the longing desire for the coming of the Spirit of God into their midst. At the sermon's close, he took what, for the First Church, was a very wide and startling departure from the beaten track.
Jesus Christ is never preached to you, even although it is as imperfectly as I do it, but that you either gather yourselves into an attitude of resistance, or, at least, of mere indifference till the flow of the sermon's words is done; or else open your hearts to His mercy and His grace.
Then he jumped down, 'n' sez he, 'I'll tell ye what that sermon's like: it's jest like one great rainbow all round ye, and before 'n' behind 'n' everywheres, 'n' the end on't reaches way to the Throne; it jest dazzles my eyes, that's what it does." This sermon had concluded with the following hymn, which Draxy had written when Reuby was only a few weeks old:
'A sermon from Lukin Dunstane might punish him. 'Oh! I'm a sinner, I know. But, go and tell one woman of another woman, and that a lie! That's beyond me. 'The gradations of the deeps are perhaps measurable to those who are in them. 'The sermon's at me pop! said Sir Lukin. 'By the way, I'm coming round to think Diana Warwick was right when she used to jibe at me for throwing up my commission.
True and tender visiting is the sermon's fuse, and what God hath put together no man can safely put asunder. One of my first visits was to the farmhouse of Donald M'Phatter, a belated member of the fold, for he and his wife Elsie had not beshadowed St. Cuthbert's door for many a year.
'A sermon from Lukin Dunstane might punish him. 'Oh! I'm a sinner, I know. But, go and tell one woman of another woman, and that a lie! That's beyond me. 'The gradations of the deeps are perhaps measurable to those who are in them. 'The sermon's at me pop! said Sir Lukin. 'By the way, I'm coming round to think Diana Warwick was right when she used to jibe at me for throwing up my commission.
"Now gentlemen, the sermon's coming," laughed Egon good-naturedly. He was not far wrong, for Stadinger spoke his mind as usual, and to the point too, so that before he finished the officers felt he had the best of it against the prince. After half an hour's chatter, Willibald and Eugen Stahlberg rose to go. As they bade good-night to the prince he said: "You push on to-morrow, I hear?"
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