What are the
consequences of not obeying this Divine law? You will not be struck
dead nor excommunicated, you will be simply DISAPPOINTED. Your burnt
offering will receive no answer; you will not be blessed through it;
you will come to see that you have been pouring forth your treasure,
and something worse, your heart's blood--not the blood of cattle--
before that which is no God--a nothing, in fact. 'Vanity of
vanities,' you will cry, 'all is vanity.' My young friends, young
men and young women, you are particularly prone to go wrong in this
matter. You not only lay your possessions but yourselves on altars
by the roadside."
It was the first time George had ever heard anything from any public
speaker which came home to him, and he wondered if Mr. Bradshaw knew
his history. He interpreted the discourse after his own way, and
Priscilla was ever before him.
They came back to the little house, and sat down to dinner in the
little front room. There were portraits on the walls--nothing else
but portraits--and the collection at first sight was inconsistent.
Major Cartwright was still there; there were also Byron, Bunyan,
Scott, Paine, Burns, Mr.
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