"Is that all?" the Bishop asked, disappointedly.
"Yes, that is all."
Antony Pelham's heart, as he walked up the hill in the moonlight,
was full. He was only twenty-eight, and desperately lonely, after
the year of brightness and delight he had shared with his young
wife. Marjorie reminded him of her in some strangely familiar
way--in her simplicity, her immaturity, her withdrawals. He
turned to look at the cathedral, shining white in the moonlight,
remembering that she had stood there with him, and that their talk
had been about a home.
"I will win her," he said, as he turned, and set his face to climb
the hill.
END OF CHAPTER THREE.
[Illustration: A NEW CREATION]
A NEW CREATION
By
The Rev W.W. Tulloch, D.D.
"In Christ--a new creature."--2 CORINTHIANS V. 17.
I fancy that we have all felt the need of a change of air, of life,
of our physical surroundings, our mental and moral environment; and
we have experienced the good that such a change has done us. We have
toiled on through the bad weather, the hard work, the much worry
of a long winter; or we have been kept at our post and laboured
listlessly through a hot and oppressive summer. The wheels of life
have dragged slowly. We have felt below par. Everything has been
more or less a trouble to us. The routine of daily duty has become
dismally monotonous. The zest has departed. Our very sleep is not
refreshing. We lie down with our weariness and trouble about us and
in us, and when we awaken we are still surrounded and dominated by
it. The burden seems no lighter for our repose. No new strength
seems to have been gained to face the calls of the new day--a day
which it is a trouble even to think about.
Well, we are ordered a change, or, driven by our instincts, we seek
one, or the blessed holiday season comes round at last. We go away,
and in fresh air, in a change of occupation, amid new interests and
associations, we begin to feel quite different. The old lassitude
and weariness have passed away. We have not been long in our changed
place of abode, when we begin to say to ourselves and to write home
that we feel quite new persons--a different man, a different woman.
And when we return our very appearance, our talk, the whole attitude
in which we regard life, the eagerness with which we take up the
old task, tell to all who are interested in us how much improved we
are, how much healthier and better we look. More to the purpose, we
ourselves feel better in every way. The change has done us ever so
much good. In it we have found our old self and yet a new self, and
we rejoice and are glad.
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