<Punish, chastise, chasten>.

To chasten him is to afflict him with trouble for his reformation or spiritual betterment.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

We are only chastened, as a father chastens his child.

Now, even if you suffer somewhat in this life for your sins, that suffering is not punishment, but wholesome chastisement, as when a father chastens the son in whom he delighteth.

Whom the Lord loveth, she says, he chastens; and he knows how he has chastened her.

Christianity, while it chastens and amends the heart, leaves the natural powers unaltered; and it cannot be doubted that its operation is, or ought to be, proportionate to the abilities and opportunities of the subject of its holy impression"Unto whomsoever much is given, much will be required."

What child his filial heart in words can loose, If he behold his tender father raise The hand that chastens sorely?

Well, if you think that keeping a person where she doesn't want to be chastens her!

Thy vein, says he perchance, is all too free; Thy smutty language suits not learned pen: Reply, Good Sir, throughout, the context see; Thought chastens thought; so prithee judge again.

The story may be trivial, a mere expanded anecdote, yet it is sure to be so vitally treated that, like Maupassant's work, it grips and remains, and, what is more, it lifts and chastens or explains.

Wherewith we love the Heaven that chastens us.

As the Apostle says, God chastens us only for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

" The brow of the governess had already contracted, and she was evidently preparing herself to give a stern and repulsive answer; but, as the plaintive tones, and shrinking, submissive form of the other, pleaded strongly to her heart, the frown passed away, leaving in its place a mild reproving look, like that which chastens the frown of maternal concern.

While every bleaching breeze that on her blows Chastens her spotless purity of breast, And hardens her to bear D isciplin E Serene the ills of life.

THE SINNER CHASTENS HIMSELF XXIV.

The Sinner Chastens himself How to offer the greatest sacrificehow to do the greatest servicethese had become his problems.

And so, in all the changes of this mortal life, he sees no real chance, no real change, but the orderly education of a just and loving Father, whose mercy endureth for ever; who chastens men as a father chastens his children, for their profit, that they may be partakers of his holiness, in which alone is life and joy, health and wealth.

And so, in all the changes of this mortal life, he sees no real chance, no real change, but the orderly education of a just and loving Father, whose mercy endureth for ever; who chastens men as a father chastens his children, for their profit, that they may be partakers of his holiness, in which alone is life and joy, health and wealth.

He chastens no one; or if He does, we will cover it up and ignore it; religion is all rapture, and this is not a scene of probation.

"There is no gloom on earth, for God above Chastens in love; Transmuting sorrows into golden joy Free from alloy.

God chastens us!'Pfui!

KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (dryly) You lick the hand that chastens you.

So graciously does my heavenly Father deal with me, that he blesses and chastens me in love; for this, my heart's desire is to praise Him: I thirst for a deeper baptism, and more intimate communion with Him." MY SIXTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY.

These words are often running in my mind, 'Until he doth the cloud remove He only chastens whom he loves.'