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Anyhow, the parity of the two strivers was now somewhat re-established. In point of fact, the disparity had been less than I supposed. While Maltby was at Keeb, there Braxton was also in a sense.... It was a strange story. I did not hear it at the time. Nobody did. I heard it seventeen years later. I heard it in Lucca.
Self-seekers all of them, strivers after wealth, power, and worldly ambition, and forgetters alike of what has been dree'd and done by the mighty men who stood in the gap in the great day of wrath. It would seem that this was spoken during the apprehensions of invason from France.
Nevertheless it does give peace, and that kind of rationality is so paramountly demanded by men that to the end of time there will be absolutists, men who choose belief in a static eternal, rather than admit that the finite world of change and striving, even with a God as one of the strivers, is itself eternal.
"No," rejoined Isabella quickly, "You are quite right, we cannot choose and we cannot all win. "'And what reward for strivers who are losers? A wooden spoon? Sometimes not even that. Nor, does this seem, since men may not be choosers, A thing to wonder at;" she quoted, smiling. "The wooden spoon is mine, and I suppose I ought to cultivate a decent gratitude for favour received."
Even then, even when failure has damped your critical ardour, you will see many things to be laughed at in the deportment of your rivals. Most laughable, perhaps, are your indefatigable strivers after eloquence.
A most genial host crossed the room to give Mr. Richter a welcome that any man might have envied. He was introduced to Stephen. "We were all 'Streber' together, in Germany," said Richter. "You were all what?" asked Stephen, interested. "Strivers, you might call it in English. In the Vaterland those who seek for higher and better things for liberty, and to be rid of oppression are so called.
In Sterling's Writings and Actions, were they capable of being well read, we consider that there is for all true hearts, and especially for young noble seekers, and strivers towards what is highest, a mirror in which some shadow of themselves and of their immeasurably complex arena will profitably present itself. Here also is one encompassed and struggling even as they now are.
Thus, while Burns is not at all great for New World study, in the sense that Isaiah and Eschylus and the book of Job are unquestionably great is not to be mention'd with Shakspere hardly even with current Tennyson or our Emerson he has a nestling niche of his own, all fragrant, fond, and quaint and homely a lodge built near but outside the mighty temple of the gods of song and art those universal strivers, through their works of harmony and melody and power, to ever show or intimate man's crowning, last, victorious fusion in himself of Real and Ideal.
Oh! why is it that so many of God's children have no desire for this honour being princes of God, strivers with God, and prevailing? What our Lord taught us, "What things soever ye desire, believe that ye have received," is nothing but His putting of Jacob's words, "I will not let Thee go except thou bless me." This is the importunity He teaches, and we must learn: to claim and take the blessing.
With what love, what devotion, what exultation and holy rapture, they sacrificed their lives in the path of the All-Glorious! To the truth of this all witness. And yet, how can they belittle this Revelation? Hath any age witnessed such momentous happenings? If these companions be not the true strivers after God, who else could be called by this name?
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