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Each of that little congregation had their own sorrow of heart, their own prayer and thanksgiving, to pour out in secret; but all could join in one thank-offering for the safety of the heir of that house; all joined in one prayer for the rescue of their hunted King, and for the restoration of their oppressed and afflicted Church.
"Well, we'll take the money back as soon as supper is over," said Mrs. Owen. Peggy ate her supper in silence. She was sure her mother could not know how much she wanted the new hat. And to think she felt so sure of having it, and then to have it snatched away was hard! And she was afraid Mr. Butler's feelings would be hurt; for she was sure he did not think of a reward, but a thank-offering.
The writer has resolved to test the psychology of this process on himself the next time the Boston Symphony Company comes to town. He will try and think of the great singers as true benefactors of mankind, who go about the country bestowing favors on the public, and when he comes to the ticket-window he will merely make a thank-offering for the pleasure he is receiving.
When they have taken many captives, they usually kill the old people, because they would not get much money for them in Bokhara; and they choose one of their captives to offer up as a thank-offering to their god!! Who is their god? The god of Mahomed. But though they are Mahomedans, they have no mosques, and are too ignorant to be able to read the Koran. Robbery is their whole business.
"Everything we have," he went on, "must be shared with God. That is the notion of the Jewish thank-offering. Ian says the greatest word in the universe is ONE; the next greatest, ALL. They are but the two ends of a word to us unknowable God's name for himself." Mercy had read Mrs.
"Have you ever made a thank-offering?" he said. "No." "That tells me something. Well, to-day I wish to make a thank-offering to the desert." "What has it done for you?" "Who knows? Who knows?" He laughed aloud, almost like a boy. Androvsky glanced at him with a sort of wondering envy. "And I want you to share in my little distribution," he added. "And you, Monsieur, if you don't mind.
Besides, I shall fulfil his last wishes as a thank-offering for You. "There is still something more to tell. "On the day before his death he asked me to open an old portmanteau literally, the one thing that he possessed. He had no money left, and no clothes. In a corner of the portmanteau there was a roll of papers, tied with a piece of string and that was all.
His party having killed an elephant, he had to send back a considerable distance to give information to the person in charge of the district, the owner himself living near the Zambesi. Their messenger returned with a basket of corn, a fowl, and a few strings of beads, a thank-offering to them for having killed it.
He built a temple and adorned it with a statue as a thank-offering for having blown so fair a bride to his domain. No prettier compliment could be paid to a wife, even by a white man. For a time Kelea was content.
Let me share in its payment, Amelie," said he. "You may, but you shall not ask me what it is. There now, do not wet yourself further! You have gathered more lilies than we can carry home." "But I have my own thank-offering to make to Notre Dame des Victoires, for I think I love God even better for your sake, Amelie." "Fie, Pierre, say not that! and yet I know what you mean.
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