showed I was mistaken on both points。 He addressed me precisely in his ordinary manner; or what had; of late; been his ordinary manner—one scrupulously polite。 No doubt he had invoked the help of the Holy Spirit to subdue the anger I had roused in him; and now believed he had forgiven me once more。
For the evening reading before prayers; he selected the twenty…first chapter of Revelation。 It was at all times pleasant to listen while from his lips fell the words of the Bible: never did his fine voice sound at once so sweet and full—never did his manner bee so impressive in its noble simplicity; as when he delivered the oracles of God: and to…night that voice took a more solemn tone—that manner a more thrilling meaning—as he sat in the midst of his household circle (the May moon shining in through the uncurtained window; and rendering almost unnecessary the light of the candle on the table): as he sat there; bending over the great old Bible; and described from its page the vision of the new heaven and the new earth—told how God would e to dwell with men; how He would wipe away all tears from their eyes; and promised that there should be no more death; neither sorrow nor crying; nor any more pain; because the former things were passed away。
The succeeding words thrilled me strangely as he spoke them: especially as I felt; by the slight; indescribable alteration in sound; that in uttering them; his eye had turned on me。
“He that overeth shall inherit all thi