but when she heard of God's loving-kindness, far beyond all tender mother's love, she was hushed into peace and prayer. There she stood, her fair pale cheek resting on her baby's head, as he slumbered on her bosom; her eyes went slanting down under their half-closed white lids; but their gaze was not on the primitive cottage-like room, it was earnestly fixed on a dim mist, through which she fain would have seen the life that lay before her child; but the mist was still and dense, too thick a veil for anxious human love to penetrate. The future was hid with God. Mr. Benson stood right under the casement window that was placed high up in the room; he was almost in shade, except for one or two marked lights which fell on hair already silvery white; his voice was always low and musical when he spoke to few; it was too weak to speak so as to be heard by many without becoming harsh and strange; but now it filled the little room with a loving sound, like the stock-dove's brooding murmur over her young. He and Ruth forgot all in their earnestness of thought; and when he said "Let us pray," and the little congregation knelt down you might have heard the baby's faint breathing, scarcely sighing out upon the stillness, so absorbed were all in the solemnity. But the prayer was long; thought followed thought, and fear crowded upon fear, and all were to be laid bare before God, and His aid and counsel asked. Before the end, Sally had shuffled quietly out of the vestry into the green chapel-yard, upon which the door opened. Miss Benson was alive to this movement, and so full of curiosity as to what it might mean that she could no longer attend to her brother, and felt inclined to rush off and question Sally, the moment all was ended.
同类推荐
热门推荐
神澜记
缘起天阑,神魔无界,八荒六合烽烟起,乱世神州祭枭雄。莫道天路有时尽,得求仙途渡长生。世间从不缺少传说,是真是假,是梦是幻,总不得而知,自上古来,生老病死,天灾人祸不断,世人便有驱魔除灾,寻求长生之说。然世事无常,世人面对这些天地异象,周遭怪奇之事,皆无能为力,不得解释。但天地之灵却也玄妙之至,世间总有人能观天地之气象,由日出月落,翻云吐雾诸多自然现象,悟得一丝吐纳之法,得以长寿正寝,后人便道长生一说并非不可为,修行之法便传至今。唯有一事,人生从何来,死往何处,世人至今皆道不明,也寻不到,故日常处事皆以为事行其因,必有其果。因果轮回一说,便也根深蒂固于世人心中。故事便是自这小小青州城开始了。。。