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Updated: June 29, 2025
But I can manage it for you; and I will, too, if only you will do as I bid you, and if the old Heathen's niece can be induced to be baptized. . . ." "She is a Christian already!" exclaimed Marcus eagerly. "Well then, she can be yours to-morrow," Demetrius went on calmly, "if you listen to the advice of your older and wiser brother.
The former of these verses expresses the thoughts of the prophet in contemplating the close of a great work of God's power which issues in the heathen's coming to Israel and acknowledging God. He adores the depth of the divine counsels which, by devious ways and after long ages, have led to this bright result.
And as though the fresh fierce hungriness had passed from that small heathen's soul into my own, that day I again became a reporter of things to be seen in the port of New York. Back into the dockshed I went, and all up and down and in and out among piles of strange and odorous stuffs. And once more I felt the wonder of this modern ocean world.
He would have put his hand into his pocket, drawn out a five dollar bill with a lordly air and handed it over with the words: "Take this. I didn't break the glass, but I pity the poor heathen's distress." As it was, he had not a penny about him. It was difficult to keep up an air of bravado under these circumstances. The crowd was growing bigger each minute.
For the character of their love was so pre-eminently Christian, so, by the circumstances that surrounded it so by hope and self-denial, elevated out of the empire, not only of the senses, but even of that sentiment which springs from them, and which made the sole refined and poetic element of the heathen's love, that but for Christianity it would have withered and died.
But what, then, is the message to us of our own poet, and searcher of hearts, after fifteen hundred years of Christian faith have been numbered over the graves of men? Are his words more cheerful than the Heathen's is his hope more near his trust more sure his reading of fate more happy? Ah, no!
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