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Updated: June 4, 2025
The string of self-interest answers with its chord to every sound; it vibrates with the funeral-bell, it finds itself trembling to the wail of the De Profundis. Not always, not always; let us not be cynical in our judgments, but common human nature, we may safely say, is subject to those secondary vibrations under the most solemn and soul-subduing influences.
But a furious madness constrains me to follow the worse course; vainly does my heart, insatiable in its desires, long for strength to enable it to adopt thy advice; what reason enjoins is rendered of no avail by this soul-subduing passion.
But the voice was not. For at that supreme moment, a bray so profound, so appalling, so utterly soul-subduing, so paralyzing that everything else sank to mere insignificance beside it filled woods, and sky, and air. For a moment only the multitude gasped in speechless astonishment it was a moment only and then the welkin roared with their shouts.
Reveal Thyself, not to my thoughts or imaginations, but by the solemn, awe-bringing, soul-subduing consciousness that God is shining upon me bring me to the place of dependence and humility." Prayer may be indeed waiting upon God, but there is a great deal of prayer that is not waiting upon God. Waiting on God is the first and the best beginning for prayer.
To be crossed in love is bad enough; but then one can fly to poetry for relief, and turn one's woes to account in soul-subduing stanzas. But to have one's whole passion, object and all, annihilated, dispelled, proved to be such stuff as dreams are made of or, worse than all, to be turned into a proverb and a jest what consolation is there in such a case?
Many of us do love men so. Do we love God so? But these heroic three may suggest another thought. Their self- sacrificing love was illustrious; but there is a nobler, more wonderful, more soul-subduing instance of such love. They broke through the ranks of the Philistines to bring David a draught from the well of Bethlehem.
And he seized the wondrous bit that lay by his side, and found with joy the prophet of the land, and showed to him, the son of Koiranos, the whole issue of the matter, how on the altar of the goddess he lay all night according to the word of his prophecy, and how with her own hands the child of Zeus whose spear is the lightning brought unto him the soul-subduing gold.
Without a word Lachlan began, not 'Lochaber' he was not ready for that yet but 'The Flowers o' the Forest, and from that wandered through 'Auld Robin Gray' and 'The Land o' the Leal, and so got at last to that most soul-subduing of Scottish laments, 'Lochaber No More. At the first strain, his brother, who had thrown himself on some blankets behind the fire, turned over on his face, feigning sleep.
The string of self-interest answers with its chord to every sound; it vibrates with the funeral-bell, it finds itself trembling to the wail of the De Profundis. Not always, not always; let us not be cynical in our judgments, but common human nature, we may safely say, is subject to those secondary vibrations under the most solemn and soul-subduing influences.
Luke's account is much condensed, but contains some points peculiar to itself. It falls into two parts the solemn scene of the agony, and the circumstances of the arrest. I. We look with reverent awe and thankfulness at that soul-subduing picture of the agonising and submissive Christ which Luke briefly draws.
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