The Lady of the Manor (Volume 4 ) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1860. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVIII. Second Conversation on the Lord's Prayer--"Lead us not inio Temptation." I HAVE promised you, my dear young people," said the lady of the manor, when next the party met, "to furnish you with a story on the subject of temptations. I shall now fulfil my engagement, without any other preface than to remind you, that our Lord's expression, 'Lead us not into temptation, ' by no means asserts that the Almighty tempts us, for we are tempted and drawn aside by our own evil inclinations. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. (James i. 13, 14.) I will now leave my little history to speak for itself." THE BEAUTIFUL ESTELLE. "An interval of quiet, and a space for reflection on the past, after the experience of many and various tossings on the tempestuous sea of life, being permitted me, ere my departure from the present scene of things, I am inclined to avail myself of it, in order to arrange certain papers which have long lain by me, relative to a lady, with whose history my own is intimately connected, and to furnish such additions to her narrative as few are so able to supply as myself; my motive for so doing not being to afford amusement to the idle reader, but to hold up a warning to youth, and to shew the very dreadful effects of a presumptuous and self-confiding spirit. There are no promises contained in Scripture for the consolation of the proud; whereas we are assured that God will guide those in judgment who are meek, and that he will teach his way to such as are gentle. (Ps. xxv. 9.) A high and independent spirit appears to have been the original cause of every affliction which I am about ...