The Triump Over Midian Author:A. L. O. E. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. THE DEATH-BED MESSAGE. jjSA awoke on the following morning with a feeling of oppression on her heart, a vague impression that something had been neglected which ought to have been done, and she connected that something with the lecture which she had heard on the preceding day. Several minutes passed, however, before she could trace back the links of thought to the actual cause of her uneasiness, as it lay out of the general course of reflection suggested by the subject of the lecture. Then Isa recalled the words which at the time that she heard them had painfully reminded her of a death-bed scene, perhaps the saddest recollection left on a mind which had had of late much experience of sorrow. " The Christian may be called to draw upon himselfthe anger of men by defending the truth, or upholding the cause of the oppressed." " It is more than two years," reflected Isa, " since T received a sacred charge from the dy ing lips of my dear father; and that charge I have never obeyed. For more than two years may an orphan have been suffering on account of my brother, and during all this time I have let the sin rest on his soul. I first put off an explanation till I should meet him'; then, when we met, I shrank from doing my duty. I quieted conscience with every kind of frivolous excuse; he was too delicate, too sensitive, too busy, it would be better to delay speaking till we should be alone together in some peaceful home. We have been alone together, we have passed hours, days, weeks in each other's society with nothing to hinder me from speaking, except my own coWtirdly dislike of saying wha...« less