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"My dear child," said Mr Seagrave, "riches and prosperity in this world prove often the greatest of temptations; it is adversity that chastens and amends us, and which draws us to God." "As soon as the money was in my own hands," continued Ready, "I began to squander it away in all manner of folly.
Ah, when the night falls and the great sages I speak of go back to their lonely dwelling, and look on the chairs round the hearth where their children once were, but never shall be again then, truly, can they not escape some part of the sorrow that comes, overwhelming, to those whose suffering no noble thought chastens.
Hence the historian Robertson, with somewhat more of unnecessary vehemence than of dignified moderation and good sense, tells us in words very like part of our text: "One dreadful malady, the severest scourge with which, in this life, offended heaven chastens the indulgence of criminal desire, seems to have been peculiar to the Americans.
He prayed for those who remained, reminding them, that the Lord chastens whom he loves, and that they who die, although full of years and honors, do yet go where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest, and at last pass beyond to enter into the joy of their Lord. His voice ceased, and silence fell again upon the house.
Your many amiable and good qualities yet live, Francisco, in the fond memories of former friends, although you are no longer among them; and your heroic death, while it chastens grief, has added another memento, and a laurel leaf to the wreath your brave Castilian ancestors left behind them, bequeathed to the care of one who knew so well how to value and protect it, and to add to its honour.
"Hast thou the face to ask? Thy mother weeps all day, save when thy father is at home. Then she makes herself as stony as he. He an elder of the synagogue! thou hast brought down his gray hairs in sorrow to the grave." He swallowed a sob. Then, with something of his father's stoniness, "Suffering chastens, Miriam," he said. "It is God's weapon." "Accuse not God of thy cruelty. I hate thee."
She drew in her breath, and he understood her. "Strong indeed," he said gravely. "But " Then a smile broke in. "Have I been boasting? You see some signs of swelled head? Perhaps you are right. Now let me tell you what the other side are doing. That chastens one! There is a conference of Bishops next week; there was one a week ago. These are of course thundering resolutions in Convocation.
And the soul said, 'Blessed are they that mourn; and I rejoiced at the new trial which brought me nearer to Him who chastens those He loves." "But thy banished kin the valiant, the wise; they who placed thy lord on the throne?" "Was it no comfort," answered the Queen simply, "to think that in the House of God my prayers for them would be more accepted than in the halls of kings?
Alas! it is not resignation that comforts us, raises and chastens; but indeed the thoughts and the feelings in whose name we embrace resignation; and it is here that wisdom doles out the rewards they have earned to her faithful. Some ideas there are that lie beyond the reach of any catastrophe.
I remember in a campaign with Monsieur le Marechal, it happened that But what is the matter, Monsieur, you grow pale?" "Bind up my leg with something a handkerchief, a strap, or what you will. I feel a burning pain there; I know not what." "Your boot is cut, Monsieur. It may be some ball; however, lead is the friend of man." "It is no friend of mine, at all events." "Ah, who loves, chastens!
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