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What a fool and what a sluggard nature must be, as Rutherford here says she is, if she can lull us into security about ourselves in such a life as this! And what a noble field does this snare-filled life supply for all a preacher's boldest and best powers!
'Gradually, says Sir John Lubbock, 'even their bodily force dwindled away under the enervating influence to which they had subjected themselves, until they sank to their present degraded condition weak in body and mind, few in numbers, and apparently nearly extinct, the miserable representatives of far superior ancestors maintaining a precarious existence as contemptible parasites of their former slaves. One may observe in passing that these wretched do-nothings cannot have been the ants which Solomon commended to the favourable consideration of the sluggard; though it is curious that the text was never pressed into the service of defence for the peculiar institution by the advocates of slavery in the South, who were always most anxious to prove the righteousness of their cause by most sure and certain warranty of Holy Scripture.
The shutters were all once more closed, which I remember thinking odd; and the house, with its white walls and green venetians, looked spruce and habitable in the morning light. Hour after hour passed, and still no sign of Northmour. I knew him for a sluggard in the morning; but, as it drew on toward noon, I lost my patience.
"Now then, booby," said the soldier, "come down off that stove and follow me to the king's palace." "Why should I? There is as much cider, onions, and soup as I want at home." The man, indignant at his want of respect, struck him. Upon which the sluggard said: "At my behest, and by the orders of the pike, May this man get a taste of what a broom is like."
His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, "You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to you? While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food. Do you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none but those who work are entitled to eat?"
"You are a pair of muffs! He, he, he!" "'Go to the ant, thou sluggard'," Mollie quoted slowly. "Oh Jerry " It took them some time to recover from this little misunderstanding. "Next time I see Aunt Mary bites like red-hot nippers oh dear!" "Well, come on and dig now," Hugh ordered at last, twisting a cord neatly round his last peg as he spoke.
And so it comes to pass that the men who hunt after trifles that are to perish set examples to the men who say that they are pursuing eternal realities. 'Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise. Go to the men of the world, thou Christian, and do not let it be said that the devil's scholars are more studious and earnest than Christ's disciples.
Up to an elbow sprang Beltane to find the sun new risen, filling his humble chamber with its golden glory, and, in this radiance, upon the open threshold, the tall, grim figure of the stranger. "Messire," quoth Beltane, rubbing sleepy eyes, "you wake betimes, meseemeth." "Aye, sluggard boy; there is work to do betwixt us." "How so, sir?"
The approach of disaster in Spain had been for some time indicated by omens much clearer than the mishap of the salt-cellar; an ungrateful prince, an undisciplined army, a divided council, envy triumphant over merit, a man of genius recalled, a pedant and a sluggard intrusted with supreme command. The battle of Almanza decided the fate of Spain.
"We shall soon see which has, notwithstanding, the faster pair of heels the Ouzel Galley is no sluggard, Mr Carnegan, and we may still hope to run the stranger out of sight.
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