God has sent stars which have been beacon-lights on our pathway through the world, though in their gleaming we have foolishly failed at times to see the guiding hand of a merciful Providence.
That being now impossible, he promised him the merciful release of the tomahawk.
She was appalled by the intense cleanness of the vision; she seemed to have broken through the merciful veil which intervenes between intention and action, and to see exactly what she would do in all the long days to come.
Up in jagged mountains, down into merciful valleys, goes the line, and at every point there is a number, and that number is the number of the wounded who were brought down from the trenches on such a day.
For superiors are merciful and human creatures these days, and there is always the thought that the girl may never see that friend again.
This, then, is the setting for one of the most merciful of the works of the Red Cross.
The American Humane Association has been greatly interested in promoting the more merciful treatment of range stock, which in the past have been largely left to shift for themselves during the cold, bleak winters of the Northwestern ranges.
But now come onward with thine eyes, as I Speaking shall go, and note the great patricians Of this most just and merciful of empires.
O House of God, wert made His footstool, the days when in ceaseless strains the melody of the All-Merciful poured forth from thee!
This is the Day whereon the All-Merciful hath come down in the clouds of knowledge, clothed with manifest sovereignty.
Thus biddeth thee the All-Merciful Who is suffering imprisonment at the hands of His oppressors.
To this hath the All-Merciful borne witness in His Tablets.
The Divine Springtime is come, O Most Exalted Pen, for the Festival of the All-Merciful is fast approaching.
The All-Merciful is come invested with undoubted sovereignty.
From the Source of His knowledge countless Luminaries of learning and wisdom have risen, and out of the Paradise of His Pen the breath of the All-Merciful hath continually been wafted to the hearts and souls of men.
The dawn of understanding hath now broken,” said he, “and the testimony of the All-Merciful is fulfilled.
Many a time hath the court of the All-Merciful been to outward seeming so denuded of the riches of this world that they who lived in close association with Him suffered from dire want.
With ears that are sanctified from vain-glory and worldly desires hearken unto the counsels which I, in My merciful kindness, have revealed unto you, and with your inner and outer eyes contemplate the evidences of My marvelous Revelation.
Haste ye to enter into Paradise, as a token of Our mercy unto you, and drink ye from the hands of the All-Merciful the Wine that is life indeed.
Take him by the hand, merciful lads, or they'll draw him down again.
Would it not be a more convenient course, as well as more merciful to put him to death?
With respect to the confiscation of their property Caesar made opposition, for he did not think it fair that they should reject the merciful part of his proposition and adopt the most severe part.
I have no other tokens to send my friends but my books; and I know how sorrowful you are, amongst the rest, for my hard hap, whereof I thank God; because I hope his merciful chastisement will prepare me for a better world.
I ween he doth send us breathing-times with this merciful intent.
The reprieve was, however, momentary, and, placed on a chair, the inanimate mass of humanity awaited the supreme moment in merciful ignorance.
Terrible as all this sounds, is it not less terrible than the secret executions indulged in by our own merciful laws?
Peninsular veteran as a merciful Providence had spared to the sixties.
The victim is put into the pillar, which is half built up in readiness; then if the executioner is merciful he will cement quickly up to the face, and death comes speedily.
He spoke of Jesus as the one accepted Intercessor, Advocate, and Surety above, and urged his hearers to yield themselves with faith and love to this faithful and merciful Saviour.
He will avenge the blood of his servants, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
They said it was the thing that wakened Katie's mother from the first merciful stupor of her bereavement, the cat running in and moaning piteously about the empty rooms, and the places where they had played their jolly games.
Some mercifulparalysis stiffened the mother's lips when she would have cursed her daughter.
The All-Merciful calls sinners to repentance before offering pardon.
Of what avail is repentance, merciful God, who wills that men also should be merciful?
It is not every one who can be so merciful to Judith as you have been.
Leave me that one comfort--that God will prove a merciful judge to my poor child.
My heart says he was merciful to Leah, and he will also be merciful to Judith.
One as old as I, who has experienced so much of evil in her dealings with human beings, must feel that God is more merciful than man.
Those who still retained their senses tried to revive the more fortunate ones to whom was vouchsafed a mercifuloblivion of their common plight.
They were too stunned to yield to fear, and the life of the past fortnight had so steeled their nerves and strengthened their bodies that fainting was no longer the readiest means of obtaining a merciful respite from present horrors.
Hither he has doubtless come to try and realise that fate has been so merciful to him that he longs to thank some unknown deity and cry that all is good.
When passion was merciful for a time, fear had taken its turn to torment him.
She could not doubt, for a moment, that she looked upon herself; but, oh, merciful heavens!
He saw Jane's stricken lover, bowed beside him in his blindness, living again through those sights and sounds which no merciful curtain of oblivion could ever hide or veil.
The divine system of legislation is formed with a merciful regard to our best interests, and an entire knowledge of our nature.
The process by which this merciful intention was accomplished appears truly wonderful: Adam was put into a profound sleep, and the Lord God took out one of his ribs, from which he made a woman, and closed up the flesh.
Nevertheless, for thy great mercies' sake, thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
At last he resigned himself to the care of the Merciful One and tried to sleep, but in vain--he was in a high fever.
I forgive all the World: So the Lord be Merciful to my Soul.
We can do no more, but leave you in His Merciful Hands!
