lorify Himself by thee. He can do it by thy silence as well as by thy preaching; thy laying aside as well as thy continuance in thy work. It is not pretence of doing God the Menn Kenedy Fotballdrakter greatest service, or performing the weightiest duty, that will excuse the least sin, though that sin capacitated Menn Jorge Fucile Fotballdrakter or gave us the opportunity for doing that duty. Thou wilt have little thanks, O my soul! if, when thou art charged with corrupting God’s worship, falsifying thy vows, thou pretendest a necessity for it in order to a continuance in the ministry. As he read this, and glanced at much more which he did not read, he gained resolution for himself, and felt as if he too could be brave and firm in doing what he believed to be right; but as he ceased he heard Margaret’s low convulsive sob; and his courage sank down under the keen sense of suffering.
‘Margaret, dear!’ said he, drawing her closer, ‘think of the early Menn Miguel Angel Moya Fotballdrakter martyrs; think of the thousands who have suffered.’
‘But, father,’ said she, suddenly lifting up her flushed, tear-wet face, ‘the early martyrs suffered for the truth, while you — oh! dear, dear papa!’
‘I suffer for conscience’ sake, my child,’ said he, with a dignity that was only tremulous from the acute sensitiveness of his character; ‘I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid Menn Cristiano Ronaldo Fotballdrakter and cowardly than mine.’ He shook his head as he went on. ‘Your poor mother’s fond wish, gratified at last in the mocking way in which over-fond wishes are too often fulfilled — Sodom apples as they are Menn Anton Tinnerholm Fotballdrakter — has brought on this crisis, for which I ought to be, and I hope I am Menn Ilkay Gundogan Fotballdrakter thankful. It is not a month since the bishop Menn Ricardo Oliveira Fotballdrakter offered me another living; if I had accepted it, I should have had to make a fresh declaration of conformity to the Liturgy at my institution. Margaret, I tried to do it; I tried to content myself with simply refusing the additional preferment, and stopping quietly here — strangling my conscience now, as I had strained |
