They then set to work and fought lustily,
and would have done each other a mortal injury had not a Policeman
providentially arrived, and walked them off to the station-house.
As it was they were fined Five Shillings each, and it was a long
time before they fully recovered.
13. What can 10 fools do among 300 sinners? They can do much harm,
and had far better let the sinners seek peace their own way in the
wilderness than ram it down their throats during the night.
14. Barnwell is a place near Cambridge. It is one of the descents
into the infernal regions; nay, the infernal regions have there
ascended to the upper earth, and are rampant. He that goeth by it
shall be scorched, but he that seeketh it knowingly shall be
devoured in the twinkling of an eye, and become withered as the
grass at noonday.
15. Young men do not seem to consider that houses were made to pray
in, as well as to eat and to drink in. Spiritual food is much more
easily procured and far cheaper than bodily nutriment; that,
perhaps, is the reason why many overlook it.
16. When we were children our nurses used to say, "Rock-a-bye baby
on the tree top, when the bough bends the cradle will rock." Do the
nurses intend the wind to represent temptation and the storm of
life, the tree-top ambition, and the cradle the body of the child in
which the soul traverses life's ocean? I cannot doubt all this
passes through the nurses' minds.
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