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The prisoner offered to put the whole upon this issue: he would pronounce, with his usual tone of voice, a period as long as that to which they had sworn; and then let them try to repeat it, if they could. What was more unaccountable, they had forgotten even the text of his sermon; nor did they remember any single passage but the words to which they gave evidence.
"Well," said Charles, "there's one text which has ever dwelt on my mind, 'Rejoice with trembling. I can't take full, unrestrained pleasure in anything." "Why not, if you look at it as God's gift?" asked Mary. "I don't defend it," he replied; "it's my way; it may be a selfish prudence, for what I know; but I am sure that, did I give my heart to any creature, I should be withdrawing it from God.
What a multitude of motives converge on the solemn duty of work for Christ, if we read in the light of this deeper meaning the simple words of our text, 'He gave the loaves to the disciples! What manner of servant is he who can bear to have no part in the blessed work that follows 'and the disciples to the multitude'?
In default of any eloquence of their own, these men made use of messengers with symbols of one kind or another, like the ascetic near Siena who sent a 'little hermit, that is a pupil, into the terrified city with a skull upon a pole to which was attached a paper with a threatening text from the Bible.
For I knew how hungry for meat these Ifugao become. "Three old men stuck their spears in a piece of meat and began a long story whose text was the confusion of enemies in some past time.
"For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." This was the text. It was quite familiar to her; and so were the truths drawn from it, she thought. What could be the cause of the interest that she saw in the faces of those eager hundreds?
Unfortunately the earlier part of this tale has been lost; but in order to render it intelligible I have restored an opening to it, without introducing any details but what are alluded to, or necessitated, by the existing story. The original text begins at the star.
The text was, 'Is not this a brand plucked from the burning? 'When the sermon began, he says, 'I was certainly a dreadful enemy to God and to all that is good, and one of the most profligate and abandoned young men living; but, by the time it was ended, I was become a new creature.
Then we've got a notion that where the pictures don't behave quite so sociably, they can be dropped into the text, like a little casual remark, don't you know, or a comment that has some connection, or maybe none at all, with what's going on in the story. Something like this."
The one, says the text, was a Pharisee, the other a Publican. A Pharisee: That is, one that hath chosen to himself such a course of life. A Publican: That is, one that hath chosen to himself such a course of life. These terms therefore shew, the divers courses of life that they had put themselves into.
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