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And when eyes grown dim for the long looking believed that at last that figure was seen, the heart breathed out its grateful relief in "Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for my eyes have seen." <u>Strange Dark Shadowings.</u> But, too, there is in this vision of glory something very different, so mixed in that it won't come out.
Now has He shown that you are true King, and that the kingdom of France truly belongs to you alone." Those broken words, her tears, the cry of that profound satisfaction which is almost anguish, the "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace," which is so suitable to the lips of the old, so poignant from those of the young, pierced all hearts.
"As Elizabeth testified when fitted with the Holy Ghost, saying to Mary, 'Blessed art thou among women," &c. Luke, ii. "Wherefore Simeon also, one of his descendants, carried fully out the rejoicing of the patriarch, and said, 'Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant," &c. "And the angel in like manner announced tidings of great joy to the shepherds who were keeping watch by night."
And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
I of course can only expect to see the beginning of such a splendid period; but when I do see it I shall exclaim with the pious Simeon 'Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." As respects the avoidance of war, the event has hardly accorded with the aspiration.
If this were the case if, when the strangers obtruded, these had been the just apprehensions of the afflicted family, they knew where to find consolation; and she who held the babe in her arms, and pressed it to her bosom, was no doubt prepared to adopt a similar strain with that by which Simeon afterward proclaimed his ecstasy "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation."
Then the fish put its head out of the water and said, "As thou hast helped me out of the mud I will give thee a flute; when thou art in any need, play on it, and then I will help thee, and if ever thou lettest anything fall in the water, just play and I will reach it out to thee." Then he rode away, and there came to him a man who asked him where he was going. "Oh, to the next place."
"And love him." "Thank God for that. It will be the saving of him. Call Martha, my dear!" Lettice went and roused Mrs. Chigwin, who came and kissed her friend. Then, with a last effort, Aunt Bessy raised her head, and whispered, "'Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace!"
Sir, said he, I have one upon that text; but I am ready to think, that a thanksgiving one, which I made on a great mercy to myself, if I may be permitted to make my own acknowledgments of your favour the subject of a discourse, will be suitable to my grateful sentiments. It is on the text; Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace; for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
Thou lettest me kiss thee last year, and the year before, and every other year." "But thou art fifteen years old to-day." "Ah! Then what was allowed last year, and always before that, is not allowed now. Dost not thou love me any more?" "All my thoughts are filled with thee." "Thou knowest that I have always been allowed to make one wish on my birthday, and that it has always been granted.
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