...him with scantier reverence than of yore. And yet he was so anxious to do right, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ! As to much he was in doubt ; but of two things he was quite sure, — that Frank Grey stock was...

...would have been better if he had stayed at home and comforted his bride, and performed his duties in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. After many years' begging at the door of the church, he came home. He performed menial services...

...scarcely less gloomy and misguided hermits of early Christendom, when they fled from the duties of that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them, in like manner buried themselves in the fitting seclusion of the tombs. The great masters who...

...had applied them to the circumstances and the duties which had sprung up around her in that exalted state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. She now braced her nerves by clinging tenaciously to the invigorating idea that even in the camp, or...

...way, or, as the Church Catechism has neatly and unimprovably expressed it, upon "doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." His almost constant ill health, and, in a minor degree, the troubles which beset him in money...

...professed to do, for the happiness of the people, he would have tried to make them contented " with that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them," instead of rousing their evil passions, and making them discontented, idle, and wretched. As...

...dependent upon her aunt, and it was evident that the girl and the elderly lady were very content in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. It seemed to Val that Lesley was always happy ; and because she was happy herself she could not...

...word " nurse " exasperated him — in a word, how thoroughly out of place Christopher Lambe was in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Yet these things had never been verbally touched upon by either of the two men to the other. What...

...in the words of the Catechism, to learn and labour truly to get his own living, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ; for that was the sum and substance of the home-teaching of our forefathers. For book instruction,...

...of course. That would have savoured of Mariolatry. Let us call it, rather, a firm resolve. A resolve to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her, and to be faithful, till death, if necessary. For the Dragon was a woman of deeply religious views,...