,transcribed from the #ahhe ,macmillan and ,co4 edition by ,david ,price1 email ccx#jgdpglaf4org ,,daily ,,thoughts ,selected from the ,writings ,,of ,,charles ,,kingsley ,,by ,,his ,,wife ,,second ,,edition ,london ,,macmillan ,,and ,,co4 #ahhe ,printed by ,r4 ,r4 ,,clark1 ,edinburgh4 ,this little ,volume1 selected from the ,,ms4 ,note-books1 ,sermons and ,private ,letters1 as well as from the published ,works of my ,husband1 is dedicated to our children1 and to all who feel the blessing of his influence on their daily life and thought4 ,f4 ,e4 ,k4 ,july #aj1 #ahhd4 ,january4 ,welcome1 wild ,north-easter6 ,shame it is to see ,odes to every zephyr3 ,ne'er a verse to thee4 4 4 4 4 4 ,tired we are of summer1 ,tired of gaudy glare1 ,showers soft and steaming1 ,hot and breathless air4 ,tired of listless dreaming ,through the lazy day3 ,jovial wind of winter ,turn us out to play6 ,sweep the golden reed-beds2 ,crisp the lazy dyke2 ,hunger into madness ,every plunging pike4 ,fill the lake with wild-fowl2 ,fill the marsh with snipe2 ,while on dreary moorlands ,lonely curlew pipe4 ,through the black fir forest ,thunder harsh and dry1 ,shattering down the snow-flakes ,off the curdled sky4 4 4 4 4 4 ,come2 and strong within us ,stir the ,viking's blood2 ,bracing brain and sinew3 ,blow1 thou wind of ,god6 ,ode to ,north-east ,wind4 ,new ,year's ,day4 ,january #a4 #c ,gather you1 gather you1 angels of ,god-- ,freedom and ,mercy and ,truth2 ,come6 for the earth is grown coward and old2 ,come down and renew us her youth4 ,wisdom1 ,self-sacrifice1 ,daring1 and ,love1 ,haste to the battlefield1 stoop from above1 ,to the day of the ,lord at hand6 ,the ,day of the ,lord4 #ahdg4 ,the ,nineteenth ,century4 ,january #b4 ,now1 and at no other time3 in this same nineteenth century lies our work4 ,let us thank ,god that we are here now1 and joyfully try to understand where we are1 and what our work is here4 ,as for all superstitions about the good old times1 and fancies that they belonged to ,god1 while this age belongs only to man1 blind chance1 and the evil one1 let us cast them from us as the suggestions of an evil lying spirit1 as the natural parents of laziness1 pedantry1 fanaticism1 and unbelief4 ,and therefore let us not fear to ask the meaning of this present day1 and of all its different voices--the pressing1 noisy1 complex present1 where our workfield lies1 the most intricate of all states of society1 and of all schools of literature yet known4 ,introductory ,lecture1 ,queen's ,college4 #ahdh4 ,forward4 ,january #c4 ,let us forward4 ,god leads us4 ,though blind1 shall we be afraid to follow8 ,i do not see my way3 ,i do not care to3 but ,i know that ,he sees ,his way1 and that ,i see ,him4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdh4 ,the ,noble ,life4 ,january #d4 ,be good1 sweet maid1 and let who will be clever2 ,do noble things1 not dream them all day long2 ,and so make life1 and death1 and that ,for ,ever ,one grand sweet song4 ,a ,farewell4 #ahef4 ,live in the present that you may be ready for the future4 ,,ms4 ,duty and ,sentiment4 ,january #e4 ,god demands not sentiment but justice4 ,the ,bible knows nothing of the religious sentiments and emotions whereof we hear so much talk nowadays4 ,it speaks of ,duty4 ,beloved1 if ,god so loved us1 we ought to love one another4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahea4 ,the ,everlasting ,harmony4 ,january #f4 ,if thou art living a righteous and useful life1 doing thy duty orderly and cheerfully where ,god has put thee1 then thou in thy humble place art humbly copying the everlasting harmony and melody which is in heaven2 the everlasting harmony and melody by which ,god made the world and all that therein is--and behold it was very good--in the day when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of ,god shouted for joy over the new- created earth1 which ,god had made to be a pattern of ,his own perfection4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 #ahei4 ,the ,keys of ,death and ,hell4 ,january #g4 ,fear not4 ,christ has the keys of death and hell4 ,he has been through them and is alive for evermore4 ,christ is the first1 and was loving and just and glorious and almighty before there was any death or hell4 ,and ,christ is the last1 and will be loving and just and glorious and almighty as ever1 in that great day when all enemies shall be under ,his feet1 and death shall be destroyed1 and death and hell shall be cast into the lake of fire4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 #aheg4 ,a ,living ,god4 ,january #h4 ,here and there1 among rich and poor1 there are those whose heart and flesh1 whose conscience and whose intellect1 cry out for the ,living ,god1 and will know no peace till they have found ,him4 ,for till then they can find no explanation of the three great human questions--,where am ,i8 ,whither am ,i going8 ,what must ,i do8 ,sermons on the ,pentateuch4 #ahfb4 ,the ,fairy ,gardens4 ,january #i4 ,of all the blessings which the study of ,nature brings to the patient observer1 let none1 perhaps1 be classed higher than this1 that the farther he enters into those fairy gardens of life and birth1 which ,spenser saw and described in his great poem1 the more he learns the awful and yet comfortable truth1 that they do not belong to him1 but to ,one greater1 wiser1 lovelier than he2 and as he stands1 silent with awe1 amid the pomp of ,nature's ever-busy rest1 hears as of old1 ,the ,word of the ,lord ,god walking among the trees of the garden in the cool of the day4 ,glaucus4 #ahee4 ,love4 ,january #aj4 ,oh6 ,love6 ,love6 ,love6 the same in peasant and in peer6 ,the more honour to you1 then1 old ,love1 to be the same thing in this world which is common to peasant and to peer4 ,they say that you are blind1 a dreamer1 an exaggerator--a liar1 in short6 ,they just know nothing about you1 then4 ,you will not see people as they seem--as they have become1 no doubt2 but why8 ,because you see them as they ought to be1 and are in some deep way eternally1 in the sight of ,him who conceived and created them6 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xiv4 #ahef4 ,life--,love4 ,january #aa4 ,we must live nobly to love nobly4 ,,ms4 ,the ,seed of ,good4 ,january #ab4 ,never was the young ,abbot heard to speak harshly of any human being4 ,when thou hast tried in vain for seven years1 he used to say1 to convert a sinner1 then only wilt thou have a right to suspect him of being a worse man than thyself4 ,that there is a seed of good in all men1 a divine word and spirit striving with all men1 a gospel and good news which would turn the hearts of all men1 if abbots and priests could but preach it aright1 was his favourite doctrine1 and one which he used to defend1 when at rare intervals he allowed himself to discuss any subject1 from the writings of his favourite theologian1 ,clement of ,alexandria4 ,above all1 ,abbot ,philamon stopped by stern rebuke any attempt to revile either heretics or heathens4 ,on the ,catholic ,church alone1 he used to say1 lies the blame of all heresy and unbelief2 for if she were but for one day that which she ought to be1 the world would be converted before nightfall4 ,hypatia1 chap4 xxx4 #aheb4 ,danger of ,thinking vaguely4 ,january #ac4 ,watch against any fallacies in your ideas which may arise1 not from disingenuousness1 but from allowing yourself in moments of feeling to think vaguely1 and not to attach precise meaning to your words4 ,without any cold caution of expression1 it is a duty we owe to ,god's truth1 and to our own happiness and the happiness of those around us1 to think and speak as correctly as we can4 ,almost all heresy1 schism1 and misunderstandings1 between either churches or individuals who ought to be one1 have arisen from this fault of an involved and vague style of thought4 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 ,the ,possession of ,faith4 ,january #ad4 ,i don't want to possess a faith1 ,i want a faith which will possess me4 ,hypatia1 chap4 xvii4 #aheb4 ,the ,eternal ,life4 ,january #ae4 ,eternally1 and for ever1 in heaven1 says ,st4 ,john1 ,christ says and is and does what prophets prophesied of ,him that ,he would say and be and do4 ,i am the ,root and the ,offspring of ,david1 the bright ,morning ,star4 ,and let him that is athirst1 come3 and whosoever will1 let him take of the ,water of ,life freely4 ,for ever ,christ calls to every anxious soul1 every afflicted soul1 to every man who is ashamed of himself1 and angry with himself1 and longs to live a gentler1 nobler1 purer1 truer1 and more useful life1 ,come1 and live for ever the eternal life of righteousness1 holiness1 and peace1 and joy in the ,holy ,spirit1 which is the one true and only salvation bought for us by the precious blood of ,christ our ,lord4 ,amen4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahfe ,the ,golden ,cup of ,youth4 ,january #af4 ,ah1 glorious twenty-one1 with your inexhaustible powers of doing and enjoying1 eating and hungering1 sleeping and sitting up1 reading and playing6 ,happy are those who still possess you1 and can take their fill of your golden cup1 steadied1 but not saddened1 by the remembrance that for all things a good and loving ,god will bring them to judgment6 ,happier still those who 7like a few7 retain in body and soul the health and buoyancy of twenty-one on to the very verge of forty1 and1 seeming to grow younger-hearted as they grow older-headed1 can cast off care and work at a moment's warning1 laugh and frolic now as they did twenty years ago1 and say with ,wordsworth-- ,so was it when ,i was a boy1 ,so let it be when ,i am old1 ,or let me die4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xix4 #ahef4 ,work and ,duty4 ,january #ag4 ,if a man is busy1 and busy about his duty1 what more does he require for time or for eternity8 ,chalk ,stream ,studies4 #ahef4 ,members of ,christ4 ,january #ah4 4 4 4 ,would you be humble1 daughter8 ,you must look up1 not down1 and see yourself ,a paltry atom1 sap-transmitting vein ,of ,christ's vast vine2 the pettiest joint and member ,of ,his great body4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ,let thyself die-- ,and dying1 rise again to fuller life4 ,to be a whole is to be small and weak-- ,to be a part is to be great and mighty ,in the one spirit of the mighty whole-- ,the spirit of the martyrs and the saints4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act ii4 ,scene vi4 #ahdg4 ,beauty a ,sacrament4 ,january #ai4 ,never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful4 ,beauty is ,god's handwriting--a way-side sacrament2 welcome it in every fair face1 every fair sky1 every fair flower1 and thank ,him for it1 who is the ,fountain of all loveliness1 and drink it in simply and earnestly with all your eyes2 it is a charmed draught1 a cup of blessing4 ,true ,words to ,brave ,men4 #ahdd4 ,the ,ideal of ,rank4 ,january #bj4 ,with ,christianity came in the thought that domination meant responsibility1 that responsibility demanded virtue4 ,the words which denoted ,rank came to denote1 likewise1 high moral excellencies4 ,the nobilis1 or man who was known1 and therefore subject to public opinion1 was bound to behave nobly4 ,the gentle-man--gentile-man--who respected his own gens1 or family1 or pedigree1 was bound to be gentle4 ,the courtier who had picked up at court some touch of ,roman civilisation from ,roman ecclesiastics was bound to be courteous4 ,he who held an honour1 or edel of land1 was bound to be honourable2 and he who held a weorthig1 or worthy1 thereof1 was bound himself to be worthy4 ,lectures on ,ancien ,regime4 #ahff4 ,an ,indulgent ,god4 ,january #ba4 ,a merely indulgent ,god would be an unjust ,god1 and a cruel ,god likewise4 ,if ,god be just1 as ,he is1 then ,he has boundless pity for those who are weak1 but boundless wrath for the strong who misuse the weak4 ,boundless pity for those who are ignorant1 misled1 and out of the right way2 but boundless wrath for those who mislead them and put them out of the right way4 ,discipline ,sermons4 #ahfg4 ,the ,fifty-,first ,psalm4 ,january #bb4 ,it is such utterances as these which have given for now many hundred years their priceless value to the little ,book of ,psalms ascribed to the shepherd outlaw of the ,judean hills1 which have sent the sound of his name into all lands throughout all the world4 ,every form of human sorrow1 doubt1 struggle1 error1 sin--the nun agonising in the cloister2 the settler struggling for his life in ,transatlantic forests2 the pauper shivering over the embers in his hovel and waiting for kind death2 the man of business striving to keep his honour pure amid the temptations of commerce2 the prodigal son starving in the far country and recollecting the words which he learnt long ago at his mother's knee2 the peasant boy trudging afield in the chill dawn and remembering that the ,lord is his ,shepherd1 therefore he will not want--all shapes of humanity have found1 and will find to the end of time1 a word said here to their inmost hearts4 4 4 4 ,sermons on ,david4 #ahff4 ,waiting for ,death4 ,january #bc4 ,death1 beautiful1 wise1 kind ,death1 when will you come and tell me what ,i want to know8 ,i courted you once and many a time1 brave old ,death1 only to give rest to the weary4 ,that was a coward's wish--and so you would not come4 4 4 4 ,i was not worthy of you4 ,and now ,i will not hunt you any more1 old ,death4 ,do you bide your time1 and ,i mine4 4 4 4 ,only when you come1 give me not rest but work4 ,give work to the idle1 freedom to the chained1 sight to the blind6 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xv4 #ahef4 ,the ,one ,refuge4 ,january #bd4 ,safe6 ,there is no safety but from ,god1 and that comes by prayer and faith4 ,hypatia4 #aheb4 ,future ,identity4 ,january #be4 ,i believe that the union of those who have loved here will in the next world amount to perfect identity1 that they will look back on the expressions of affection here as mere meagre strugglings after and approximation to the union which then will be perfect4 ,perfect6 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,friendship4 ,january #bf4 ,a friend once won need never be lost1 if we will be only trusty and true ourselves4 ,friends may part1 not merely in body1 but in spirit1 for a while4 ,in the bustle of business and the accidents of life1 they may lose sight of each other for years2 and more1 they may begin to differ in their success in life1 in their opinions1 in their habits1 and there may be1 for a time1 coldness and estrangement between them1 but not for ever if each will be trusty and true4 ,for then they will be like two ships who set sail at morning from the same port1 and ere night-fall lose sight of each other1 and go each on its own course and at its own pace for many days1 through many storms and seas1 and yet meet again1 and find themselves lying side by side in the same haven when their long voyage is past4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 ,night and ,morning4 ,january #bg4 ,it is morning somewhere or other now1 and it will be morning here again to-morrow4 ,good times and bad times and all times pass over4 ,i learnt that lesson out of old ,bewick's ,vignettes1 and it has stood me in good stead this many a year4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 i4 #ahef4 ,communion with the ,blessed ,dead4 ,january #bh4 ,shall we not recollect the blessed dead above all in ,holy ,communion1 and give thanks for them there--at that holy table at which the ,church triumphant and the ,church militant meet in the communion of saints8 ,where ,christ is they are2 and1 therefore1 if ,christ be there1 may not they be there likewise8 ,may not they be near us though unseen8 like us claiming their share in the eternal sacrifice1 like us partaking of that spiritual body and blood which is as much the life of saints in heaven as it is of penitent sinners on earth8 ,may it not be so8 ,it is a mystery into which we will not look too far4 ,but this at least is true1 that they are with ,him where ,he is4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 ,the ,great ,law4 ,january #bi4 ,true rest can only be attained as ,christ attained it1 through labour4 ,true glory can only be attained in earth or heaven through self-sacrifice4 ,whosoever will save his life shall lose it2 whosoever will lose his life shall save it4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahgj4 ,the ,coming ,kingdom4 ,january #cj4 ,there is a ,god-appointed theocracy promised to us1 and which we must wait for1 when all the diseased and false systems of this world shall be swept away1 and ,christ's feet shall stand on the ,mount of ,olives1 and the twelve apostles shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of ,israel6 ,all this shall come1 and blessed is that servant whom his ,lord when ,he cometh shall find ready6 ,all this we shall not see before we die1 but we shall see it when we rise in the perfect material and spiritual ideal1 in the kingdom of ,god6 ,letters and ,memories4 ,christ's ,coming4 ,january #ca4 ,christ may come to us when our thoughts are cleaving to the ground1 and ready to grow earthy of the earth--through noble poetry1 noble music1 noble art--through aught which awakens once more in us the instinct of the true1 the beautiful1 and the good4 ,he may come to us when our souls are restless and weary1 through the repose of ,nature--the repose of the lonely snow-peak and of the sleeping forest1 of the clouds of sunset and of the summer sea1 and whisper ,peace4 ,or ,he may come1 as ,he comes on winter nights to many a gallant soul--not in the repose of ,nature1 but in her rage--in howling storm and blinding foam and ruthless rocks and whelming surge--and whisper to them even so--as the sea swallows all of them which it can take--of calm beyond1 which this world cannot give and cannot take away4 ,and therefore let us say in utter faith1 ,come as ,thou seest best--but in whatsoever way ,thou comest1 ,even so come1 ,lord ,jesus4 ,amen4 ,last ,sermon4 ,,ms4 #ahgd4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,since we gave up at the ,reformation the superstitious practice of praying to the saints1 ,saints' ,days have sunk--and1 indeed1 sunk too much--into neglect4 ,we forget too often still1 that though praying to any saint or angel1 or other created being1 is contrary both to reason and ,scripture1 yet it is according to reason and to ,scripture to commemorate them4 ,that is1 to remember them1 to study their characters1 and to thank ,god for them1--both for the virtues ,he bestowed on them1 and the example which ,he has given us in them4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 ,,january #f4 ,the ,epiphany1 ,manifestation of ,christ to the ,gentiles4 ,on this day the ,lord ,jesus was first shown to the ,gentiles4 ,the word ,epiphany means showing4 ,the ,wise ,men were worshippers of the true ,god1 though in a dim confused way2 and they had learnt enough of what true faith1 true greatness was1 not to be staggered and fall into unbelief when they saw the ,king of the ,jews laid1 not in a palace1 but in a manger1 tended by a poor village maiden4 ,and therefore ,god bestowed on them the great honour that they first of all--,gentiles--should see the glory and the love of ,god in the face of ,jesus ,christ4 ,god grant that they may not rise up against us in the ,day of ,judgment and condemn us6 ,they had but a small spark1 a dim ray1 of the ,light which lighteth every man who cometh into the world2 but they were more faithful to that little than many of us1 who live in the full sunshine of the ,gospel1 with ,christ's ,spirit1 ,christ's ,sacraments1 ,christ's ,churches1--means of grace and hopes of glory of which they never dreamed4 ,town and ,country ,sermons4 ,,january #be4 ,conversion of ,st4 ,paul1 ,apostle and ,martyr4 ,how did ,st4 ,paul look on his past life8 ,there is no sentimental melancholy in him4 ,he is saved1 and he knows it4 ,he is an ,apostle1 and he stands boldly on his dignity4 ,he is cheerful1 hopeful1 joyful4 ,and yet1 when he speaks of the past1 it is with noble shame and sorrow that he calls himself the chief of sinners1 not worthy to be called an ,apostle1 because he persecuted the ,church of ,christ4 ,what he is1 he will not deny2 what he was1 he will not forget2 lest he should forget that in him1 that is1 in his flesh--his natural character--dwelleth no good thing2 lest he should forget that the good which he does1 he does not1 but ,christ which dwelleth in him2 lest he should grow careless1 puffed up1 self-indulgent2 lest he should neglect to subdue his evil passions2 and so1 after preaching to others1 himself become a castaway4 ,town and ,country ,sermons4 ,february4 4 4 4 ,every winter1 ,when the great sun has turned his face away1 ,the earth goes down into the vale of grief1 ,and fasts1 and weeps1 and shrouds herself in sables1 ,leaving her wedding garments to decay2 ,then leaps in spring to his returning kisses4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act iii4 ,scene i4 ,out of the morning land1 ,over the snow-drifts1 ,beautiful ,freya came1 ,tripping to ,scoring4 ,white were the moorlands1 ,and frozen before her2 ,green were the moorlands1 ,and blooming behind her4 ,out of her gold locks ,shaking the spring flowers1 ,out of her garments ,shaking the south wind1 ,around in the birches ,awaking the throstles1 ,love and love-giving1 ,came she to ,scoring4 4 4 4 4 4 ,the ,longbeard's ,saga4 #aheb4 ,virtue4 ,february #a4 ,the first and last business of every human being1 whatever his station1 party1 creed1 capacities1 tastes1 duties1 is morality2 virtue1 virtue1 always virtue4 ,nothing that man will ever invent will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as ,god is good1 righteous as ,god is righteous1 holy as ,god is holy4 ,sermons on ,david4 #ahff4 ,happiness4 ,february #b4 ,god has not only made things beautiful2 ,he has made things happy2 whatever misery there is in the world there is no denying that4 ,misery is the exception2 happiness is the rule4 ,no rational man ever heard a bird sing without feeling that the bird was happy1 and that if ,god made that bird ,he made it to be happy1 and ,he takes pleasure in its happiness1 though no human ear should ever hear its song1 no human heart should ever share in its joy4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahga4 ,a ,dream of the ,future4 ,february #c4 ,god grant that the day may come when in front of the dwellings of the poor we may see real fountains--not like the drinking-fountains1 useful as they are1 which you see here and there about the streets1 with a tiny dribble of water to a great deal of expensive stone1 but real fountains1 which shall leap1 and sparkle1 and plash1 and gurgle1 and fill the place with life and light and coolness2 and sing in the people's ears the sweetest of all earthly songs--save the song of a mother over her child--the song of ,the ,laughing ,water4 ,the ,air ,mothers4 #ahgb4 ,bondage of ,custom4 ,february #d4 ,strive all your life to free men from the bondage of custom and self1 the two great elements of the world that lieth in wickedness4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 l#hdb4 ,henceforth let no man peering down ,through the dim glittering mine of future years ,say to himself1 ,too much6 this cannot be6 ,to-day and custom wall up our horizon3 ,before the hourly miracle of life ,blindfold we stand1 and sigh1 as though ,god were not4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act i4 ,scene ii4 #ahdg4 ,the ,childlike ,mind4 ,february #e4 ,there comes a time when we must narrow our sphere of thought much1 that we may truly enlarge it6 we must1 artificialised as we have been1 return to the rudiments of life1 to children's pleasures1 that we may find easily1 through their transparent simplicity1 spiritual laws which we may apply to the more intricate spheres of art and science4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,unselfish ,prayer4 ,february #f4 ,the ,lord's ,prayer teaches that we are members of a family1 when ,he tells us to pray not ,my ,father but ,our ,father2 not my soul be saved1 but ,thy kingdom come2 not give me but give us our daily bread2 not forgive me1 but forgive us our trespasses1 and that only as we forgive others2 not lead me not1 but lead us not into temptation2 not deliver me1 but deliver us from evil4 ,after that manner our ,lord tells us to pray1 and in proportion as we pray in that manner1 just so far1 and no farther1 will ,god hear our prayers4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahej4 ,god is ,light4 ,february #g4 ,all the deep things of ,god are bright1 for ,god is ,light4 ,god's arbitrary will and almighty power may seem dark by themselves though deep1 but that is because they do not involve ,his moral character4 ,join them with the fact that ,he is a ,god of mercy as well as justice2 remember that ,his essence is love1 and the thunder-cloud will blaze with dewy gold1 full of soft rain and pure light4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdd4 ,the ,veil ,lifted4 ,february #h4 ,science is1 ,i verily believe1 like virtue1 its own exceeding great reward4 ,i can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom--panting in the foul laboratory1 or watching for his life in the tropic forest--,isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil and show him1 once and for ever1 the thing he dreamed not of1 some law1 or even mere hint of a law1 explaining one fact3 but explaining with it a thousand more1 connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole1 till order and meaning shoots through some old chaos of scattered observations4 ,is not that a joy1 a prize1 which wealth cannot give nor poverty take away8 ,what it may lead to he knows not4 ,of what use it may be he knows not4 ,but this he knows1 that somewhere it must lead1 of some use it will be4 ,for it is a truth4 ,lectures on ,science and ,superstition4 #ahff4 ,all ,science ,one4 ,february #i4 ,physical and spiritual science seem to the world to be distinct4 ,one sight of ,god as we shall some day see ,him will show us that they are indissolubly and eternally the same4 ,,ms4 ,passion and ,reason4 ,february #aj4 ,passion and reason in a healthy mind ought to be inseparable4 ,we need not be passionless because we reason correctly4 ,strange to say1 one's feelings will often sharpen one's knowledge of the truth1 as they do one's powers of action4 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,enthusiasm and ,tact4 ,february #aa4 4 4 4 ,people smile at the enthusiasm of youth--that enthusiasm which they themselves secretly look back at with a sigh1 perhaps unconscious that it is partly their own fault that they ever lost it4 4 4 4 ,do not fear being considered an enthusiast4 ,what matter8 ,but pray for tact1 the true tact which love alone can give1 to prevent scandalising a weak brother4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,be earnest1 earnest1 earnest2 mad1 if thou wilt3 ,do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven1 ,and that thy last deed ere the judgment-day4 ,when all's done1 nothing's done4 ,there's rest above-- ,below let work be death1 if work be love6 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act ii4 ,scene viii4 #ahdg4 ,the ,eternal ,good4 ,february #ab4 ,god hath showed thee what is good1 4 4 4 what is good in itself1 and of itself--the one very eternal and absolute good1 which was with ,god and in ,god and from ,god1 before all worlds1 and will be for ever1 without changing1 or growing less or greater1 eternally the same good--the good which would be just as good and just and right and lovely and glorious if there were no world1 no men1 no angels1 no heaven1 no hell1 and ,god were alone in ,his own abyss4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,awfulness of ,words4 ,february #ac4 ,a difference in words is a very awful and important difference2 a difference in words is a difference in things4 ,words are very awful and wonderful things1 for they come from the most awful and wonderful of all beings1 ,jesus ,christ1 ,,the ,,word4 ,he puts words into men's minds4 ,he made all things1 and ,he made words to express those things4 ,and woe to those who use the wrong words about anything4 ,village ,sermons4 #ahdh4 ,a ,wise ,woman4 ,february #ad4 ,what wisdom she had she did not pick off the hedge1 like blackberries4 ,god is too kind to give away wisdom after that useless fashion4 ,so she had to earn her wisdom1 and to work hard1 and suffer much ere she attained it4 ,and in attaining she endured strange adventures and great sorrows2 and yet they would not have given her the wisdom had she not had something in herself which gave her wit to understand her lessons1 and skill and courage to do what they taught her4 ,there had been many names for that something before she was born1 there have been many names for it since1 but her father and mother called it the ,grace of ,god4 ,unfinished ,novel4 #ahfi4 ,charity the one ,influence4 ,february #ae4 ,the older we grow1 the more we understand our own lives and histories1 the more we shall see that the spirit of wisdom is the spirit of love2 that the true way to gain influence over our fellow-men is to have charity towards them4 ,that is a hard lesson to learn2 and all those who learn it generally learn it late2 almost--,god forgive us--too late4 ,westminster ,sermons4 ,the ,ascetic ,painters4 ,february #af4 ,we owe much 7notwithstanding their partial and ,manichean idea of beauty7 to the early ascetic painters4 ,their works are a possession for ever4 ,no future school of religious art will be able to rise to eminence without learning from them their secret4 ,they taught artists1 and priests1 and laymen1 too1 that beauty is only worthy of admiration when it is the outward sacrament of the beauty of the soul within2 they helped to deliver men from that idolatry to merely animal strength and loveliness into which they were in danger of falling in ferocious ages1 and among the relics of ,roman luxury4 ,miscellanies4 #ahdi4 ,reveries4 ,february #ag4 ,beware of giving way to reveries4 ,have always some employment in your hands4 ,look forward to the future with hope4 ,build castles if you will1 but only bright ones1 and not too many4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,woman's ,mission4 ,february #ah4 ,it is the glory of woman that she was sent into the world to live for others rather than for herself2 and therefore1 ,i should say1 let her smallest rights be respected1 her smallest wrongs redressed2 but let her never be persuaded to forget that she is sent into the world to teach man--what ,i believe she has been teaching him all along1 even in the savage state1 namely1 that there is something more necessary than the claiming of rights1 and that is1 the performing of duties2 to teach him specially1 in these so-called intellectual days1 that there is something more than intellect1 and that is--purity and virtue4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,the ,heroic ,life4 ,february #ai4 ,provided we attain at last to the truly heroic and divine life1 which is the life of virtue1 it will matter little to us by what wild and weary ways1 or through what painful and humiliating processes1 we have arrived thither4 ,if ,god has loved us1 if ,god will receive us1 then let us submit loyally and humbly to ,his law--whom the ,lord loveth ,he chasteneth1 and scourgeth every son whom ,he receiveth4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 ,the ,wages of ,sin4 ,february #bj4 ,it is sometimes said1 ,the greater the sinner the greater the saint4 ,i do not believe it4 ,i do not see it4 ,it stands to reason--if a man loses his way and finds it again1 he is so much the less forward on his way1 surely1 by all the time he has spent in getting back into the way4 ,and if any of you fancy you can sin without being punished1 remember that the prodigal son is punished most severely4 ,he does not get off freely the moment he chooses to repent1 as false preachers will tell you4 ,even after he does repent and resolves to go back to his father's house he has a long journey home in poverty and misery1 footsore1 hungry1 and all but despairing4 ,but when he does get home2 when he shows he has learnt the bitter lesson2 when all he dares to ask is1 ,make me as one of thy hired servants1--he is received as freely as the rest4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahfd4 ,silent ,depths4 ,february #ba4 ,our mightiest feelings are always those which remain most unspoken4 ,the most intense lovers and the greatest poets have generally1 ,i think1 written very little personal love-poetry1 while they have shown in fictitious characters a knowledge of the passion too painfully intimate to be spoken of in the first person4 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,true ,justification4 ,february #bb4 ,god grant us to be among those who wish to be really justified by faith1 by being made just persons by faith1--who cannot satisfy either their conscience or their reason by fancying that ,god looks on them as right when they know themselves to be wrong2 and who cannot help trusting that union with ,christ must be something real and substantial1 and not merely a metaphor and a flower of rhetoric4 ,,ms4 #ahed4 ,a ,present ,hell4 ,february #bc4 ,ay1 he muttered1 sing awa'1 4 4 4 wi' pretty fancies and gran' words1 and gang to hell for it4 ,to hell1 ,mr4 ,mackaye8 ,ay1 to a verra real hell1 ,alton ,locke1 laddie--a warse ane than any fiend's kitchen or subterranean ,smithfield that ye'll hear o' in the pulpits--the hell on earth o' being a flunkey1 and a humbug1 and a useless peacock1 wasting ,god's gifts on your ain lusts and pleasures--and kenning it--and not being able to get oot o' it for the chains of vanity and self-indulgence4 ,alton ,locke1 chap4 viii4 #ahdi4 ,time and ,eternity4 ,february #bd4 ,eternity does not mean merely some future endless duration1 but that ever- present moral world1 governed by ever-living and absolutely necessary laws1 in which we and all spirits are now2 and in which we should be equally1 whether time and space1 extension and duration1 and the whole material universe to which they belong1 became nothing this moment1 or lasted endlessly4 ,theologica ,germanica4 #ahed4 ,christ's ,life4 ,february #be4 ,what was ,christ's life8 ,not one of deep speculations1 quiet thoughts1 and bright visions1 but a life of fighting against evil2 earnest1 awful prayers and struggles within1 continued labour of body and mind without2 insult1 and danger1 and confusion1 and violent exertion1 and bitter sorrow4 ,this was ,christ's life4 ,this was ,st4 ,peter's1 and ,st4 ,james's1 and ,st4 ,john's life afterwards4 ,village ,sermons4 #ahdi4 ,the ,higher ,education4 ,february #bf4 ,in teaching women we must try to make our deepest lessons bear on the great purpose of unfolding ,woman's own calling in all ages--her especial calling in this one4 ,we must incite them to realise the chivalrous belief of our old forefathers among their ,saxon forests1 that something ,divine dwelt in the counsels of woman3 but1 on the other hand1 we must continually remind them that they will attain that divine instinct1 not by renouncing their sex1 but by fulfilling it2 by becoming true women1 and not bad imitations of men2 by educating their heads for the sake of their hearts1 not their hearts for the sake of their heads2 by claiming woman's divine vocation as the priestess of purity1 of beauty1 and of love4 ,introductory ,lecture1 ,queen's ,college4 #ahdh4 ,god's ,kingdom4 ,february #bg4 ,philamon had gone forth to see the world1 and he had seen it2 and he had learnt that ,god's kingdom was not a kingdom of fanatics yelling for a doctrine1 but of willing1 loving1 obedient hearts4 ,hypatia1 chap4 xxiii4 #aheb4 ,sowing and ,reaping4 ,february #bh4 ,so it is1 that by every crime1 folly1 even neglect of theirs1 men drive a thorn into their own flesh1 which will trouble them for years to come1 it may be to their dying day-- ,though the mills of ,god grind slowly1 yet they grind exceeding small2 ,though with patience ,he stands waiting1 with exactness grinds ,he all-- as those who neglect their fellow-creatures will discover1 by the most patent1 undeniable proofs1 in that last great day1 when the rich and poor shall meet together1 and then1 at last1 discover too that the ,lord is the ,maker of them all4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahga4 ,the ,church ,catechism4 ,february #bi4 ,did it ever strike you that the simple1 noble1 old ,church ,catechism1 without one word about rewards and punishments1 heaven or hell1 begins to talk to the child1 like a true ,english ,catechism as it is1 about that glorious old ,english key-word ,duty8 ,it calls on the child to confess its own duty1 and teaches it that its duty is something most human1 simple1 everyday--commonplace1 if you will call it so4 ,and ,i rejoice in the thought that the ,church ,catechism teaches that the child's duty is commonplace4 ,i rejoice that in what it says about our duty to ,god and our neighbour1 it says not one word about counsels of perfection1 or those frames and feelings which depend1 believe me1 principally on the state of people's bodily health1 on the constitution of their nerves1 and the temper of their brain2 but that it requires nothing except what a little child can do as well as a grown person1 a labouring man as well as a divine1 a plain farmer as well as the most refined1 devout1 imaginative lady4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,february #b4 ,the ,presentation of ,christ in the ,temple1 ,,commonly ,,called ,the ,purification of the ,virgin ,mary4 ,little children may think of ,christ as a child now and always4 ,for to them ,he is always the ,babe of ,bethlehem4 ,let them not say to themselves1 ,christ is grown up long ago4 ,he is1 and yet ,he is not4 ,his life is eternal in the heavens1 above all change of time and space4 4 4 4 ,such is the sacred heart of ,jesus--all things to all4 ,to the strong ,he can be strongest1 to the weak weakest of all4 ,with the aged and dying ,he goes down for ever to the grave2 and yet with you children ,christ lies for ever on ,his mother's bosom1 and looks up for ever into ,his mother's face1 full of young life and happiness and innocence1 the ,everlasting ,christ- child1 in whom you must believe1 whom you must love1 to whom you must offer up your childish prayers4 ,the ,christ-child1 ,sermons1 7,good ,news of ,god74 ,,february #bd4 ,st4 ,matthias1 ,apostle and ,martyr4 ,blessed are the dead who die in the ,lord4 ,they rest from their labours--all their struggles1 failures1 past and over for ever4 ,but their works follow them4 ,the good which they did on earth--that is not past and over4 ,it cannot die4 ,it lives and grows for ever1 following on in their path long after they are dead1 and bearing fruit unto everlasting life1 not only in them1 but in men whom they never saw1 and in generations yet unborn4 ,sermons 7,good ,news of ,god74 ,ash ,wednesday4 ,there is a repentance too deep for words--too deep for all confessionals1 penances1 and emotions or acts of contrition2 the repentance1 not of the excitable1 theatric ,southern1 unstable as water even in his most violent remorse1 but of the still1 deep-hearted ,northern1 whose pride breaks slowly and silently1 but breaks once for all2 who tells to ,god what he will never tell to man1 and having told it1 is a new creature from that day forth for ever4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xviii4 ,the ,true ,fast4 ,the rationale of ,fasting is to give up habitual indulgences for a time1 lest they become our masters--artificial necessities4 ,,ms4 ,march4 ,early in the ,springtime1 on raw and windy mornings1 ,beneath the freezing house-eaves1 ,i heard the starlings sing-- ,ah6 dreary ,march month1 is this then a time for building wearily8 ,sad1 sad1 to think that the year is but begun6 ,late in the ,autumn1 on still and cloudless evenings1 ,among the golden reed-beds ,i heard the starlings sing-- ,ah6 that sweet ,march month1 when we and our mates were courting merrily2 ,sad1 sad1 to think that the year is all but done4 ,the ,starlings4 ,knowledge and ,love4 ,march #a4 ,knowledge and ,love are reciprocal4 ,he who loves knows4 ,he who knows loves4 ,saint ,john is the example of the first2 ,saint ,paul of the second4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,a ,charm of ,birds4 ,march #b4 ,little do most people know how much there is to learn--what variety of character1 as well as variety of motion1 may be distinguished by the practised ear in a charm of birds--from the wild cry of the missel-thrush1 ringing from afar in the first bright days of ,march a passage of one or two bars repeated three or four times1 and then another and another1 clear and sweet and yet defiant--for the great storm-cock loves to sing when rain and wind is coming on1 and faces the elements as boldly as he faces hawk and crow--down to the delicate warble of the wren1 who slips out of his hole in the brown bank where he has huddled through the frost with wife and children1 all folded in each other's arms like human beings4 ,yet even he1 sitting at his house-door in the low sunlight1 says grace for all mercies in a song so rapid1 so shrill1 so loud1 and yet so delicately modulated1 that you wonder at the amount of soul within that tiny body2 and then stops suddenly1 like a child that has said its lesson or got to the end of a sermon1 gives a self-satisfied flirt of his tail1 and goes in again to sleep4 ,prose ,idylls4 #ahff4 ,tact of the ,heart4 ,march #c4 ,random shots are dangerous and cruel1 likely to hit the wrong person and hurt his feelings unnecessarily4 ,it is very easy to say a hard thing1 but not so easy to say it to the right person at the right time4 ,,ms4 ,special ,providences4 ,march #d4 ,i believe not only in special providences1 but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of special providences4 ,letters and ,memories4 ,the grain of dust is a thought of ,god2 ,god's power made it2 ,god's wisdom gave it whatsoever properties or qualities it may possess4 ,god's providence has put it in the place where it is now1 and has ordained that it should be in that place at that moment1 by a train of causes and effects which reaches back to the very creation of the universe4 ,the grain of dust can no more go from ,god's presence or flee from ,god's ,spirit than you or ,i can4 ,town ,geology4 #ahga4 ,be ,calm4 ,march #e4 ,strive daily and hourly to be calm2 to stop yourself forcibly and recall your mind to a sense of what you are1 where you are going1 and whither you ought to be tending4 ,this is most painful discipline1 but most wholesome4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,self-sacrifice and ,personality4 ,march #f4 ,what a strange mystery is that of mutual self-sacrifice6 to exist for one moment for another6 the perfection of human bliss6 ,and does not love teach us two things8 ,first1 that self-sacrifice1 the living for others1 is the law of our perfect being1 and next1 that by and in self-sacrifice alone can we attain to the perfect apprehension of ourselves1 our own personality1 our own duty1 our own bliss4 ,so that the mystics are utterly wrong when they fancy that self-sacrifice can be attained by self- annihilation4 ,self-sacrifice1 instead of destroying the sense of personality1 perfects it4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdc4 ,follow your ,star4 ,march #g4 ,i believe with ,dante1 se tu segui la tua ,stella1 that ,he who ordained my star will not lead me into temptation but through it4 ,without ,him all places and methods of life are equally dangerous1 with ,him all equally safe4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdh4 ,reverence for ,books4 ,march #h4 ,this is the age of books4 ,and we should reverence books4 ,consider6 except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book--a message to us from the dead1 from human souls whom we never saw1 who lived perhaps thousands of miles away1 and yet in those little sheets of paper speak to us1 amuse us1 terrify us1 teach us1 comfort us1 open their hearts to us as brothers6 ,we ought to reverence books1 to look at them as awful and mighty things4 ,if they are good and true1 whether they are about religion or politics1 trade or medicine1 they are the message of ,christ1 the ,maker of all things1 the ,teacher of all truth1 which ,he has put into the heart of some men to speak4 ,and at the last day1 be sure of it1 we shall have to render an account--a strict account--of the books which we have read1 and of the way in which we have obeyed what we read1 just as if we had had so many prophets or angels sent to us4 ,village ,sermons4 #ahdi4 ,the ,unknown ,future4 ,march #i4 ,as for the things which ,god has prepared for those who love ,him1 the ,bible tells me that no man can conceive them1 and therefore ,i believe that ,i cannot conceive them4 ,god has conceived them2 ,god has prepared them2 ,god is our ,father4 ,that is enough4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,secular and ,sacred4 ,march #aj4 ,i grudge the epithet of secular to any matter whatsoever4 ,but more2 ,i deny it to anything which ,god has made1 even to the tiniest of insects1 the most insignificant grain of dust4 ,to those who believe in ,god1 and try to see all things in ,god1 the most minute natural phenomenon cannot be secular4 ,it must be divine1 ,i say deliberately1 divine1 and ,i can use no less lofty word4 ,town ,geology4 #ahga4 ,content or ,happy8 ,march #aa4 ,my friends1 whether you will be the happier for any knowledge of physical science1 or for any other knowledge whatsoever1 ,i cannot tell4 ,that lies in the decision of a higher ,power than ,i2 and1 indeed1 to speak honestly1 ,i do not think that any branch of physical science is likely1 at first at least1 to make you happy4 ,neither is the study of your fellow-men4 ,neither is religion itself4 ,we were not sent into the world to be happy1 but to be right--at least1 poor creatures that we are--as right as we can be1 and we must be content with being right1 and not happy4 4 4 4 ,and we shall be made truly wise if we be made content2 content1 too1 not only with what we can understand1 but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call 7and rightly7 faith in ,god1 true and solid faith1 which comes often out of sadness and out of doubt4 ,lecture on ,bio-geology4 #ahfi4 ,duty of ,man to ,man4 ,march #ab4 ,each man can learn something from his neighbour2 at least he can learn this--to have patience with his neighbour1 to live and let live4 ,peace6 peace6 ,anything which is not wrong for the sake of heaven-born ,peace6 ,town and ,country ,sermons4 #ahfa4 ,blessing of a ,true ,friend4 ,march #ac4 ,a blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend1 one human soul whom we can trust utterly1 who knows the best and worst of us1 and who loves us in spite of all our faults2 who will speak the honest truth to us1 while the world flatters us to our face1 and laughs at us behind our back2 who will give us counsel and reproof in the days of prosperity and self-conceit2 but who1 again1 will comfort and encourage us in the day of difficulty and sorrow1 when the world leaves us alone to fight our battle as we can4 ,it is only the great-hearted who can be true friends3 the mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means4 ,sermons on ,david4 #ahff4 ,true ,heroines4 ,march #ad4 ,what is the commonest1 and yet the least remembered form of heroism8 ,the heroism of an average mother4 ,ah6 when ,i think of that broad fact ,i gather hope again for poor humanity1 and this dark world looks bright1 this diseased world looks wholesome to me once more1 because1 whatever else it is or is not full of1 it is at least full of mothers4 ,lecture on ,heroism4 #ahgc4 ,secret ,atheism4 ,march #ae4 ,there is little hope that we shall learn the lessons ,god is for ever teaching us in the events of life till we get rid of our secret ,atheism1 till we give up the notion that ,god only visits now and then to disorder and destroy ,his own handiwork1 and take back the old scriptural notion that ,god is visiting all day long for ever1 to give order and life to ,his own work1 to set it right where it goes wrong1 and re-create it whenever it decays4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahff4 ,tolerance4 ,march #af4 ,if we really love ,god and long to do good and work for ,god1 if we really love our neighbours and wish to help them1 we shall have no heart to quarrel about how the good is to be done1 provided it is done4 ,master1 said ,st4 ,john1 we saw one casting out devils in ,thy name1 and he followeth not us2 wilt ,thou that we forbid him8 ,and ,jesus said1 ,forbid him not4 ,sermons4 ,the ,hopes of ,old ,age4 ,march #ag4 ,christianity alone deprives old age of its bitterness1 making it the gate of heaven4 ,our bodies will fade and grow weak and shapeless1 just when we shall not want them1 being ready and in close expectation of that resurrection of the flesh which is the great promise of ,christianity 7no miserable fancies about pure souls escaped from matter1 but7--of bodies1 our bodies1 beloved1 beautiful1 ministers to us in all our joys1 sufferers with us in all our sorrows--yea1 our very own selves raised up again to live and love in a manner inconceivable from its perfection4 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 4 4 4 ,no6 ,i can wait3 ,another body6--,ah1 new limbs are ready1 ,free1 pure1 instinct with soul through every nerve1 ,kept for us in the treasuries of ,god6 ,santa ,maura4 #aheb4 ,the ,highest ,study for ,man1 ,march #ah4 ,man is not1 as the poet said1 the noblest study of mankind4 ,god is the noblest study of man1 and ,him we can study in three ways4 #ast4 ,from ,his image as developed in ,christ the ,ideal1 and in all good men--great good men4 #b;dly4 ,from ,his works4 #c;dly4 ,from ,his dealings in history2 this is the real philosophy of history4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,eclecticism4 ,march #ai4 ,an eclectic1 if it mean anything1 means this--one who in any branch of art or science refuses to acknowledge ,bacon's great law1 that ,nature is only conquered by obeying her2 who will not take a full and reverent view of the whole mass of facts with which he has to deal1 and from them deducing the fundamental laws of his subject1 obey them whithersoever they may lead2 but who picks and chooses out of them just so many as may be pleasant to his private taste1 and then constructs a partial system which differs from the essential ideas of ,nature in proportion to the number of facts which he has determined to discard4 ,miscellanies4 #ahdi4 ,duty4 ,march #bj4 ,duty1 be it in a small matter or a great1 is duty still2 the command of ,heaven2 the eldest voice of ,god4 ,and it is only they who are faithful in a few things who will be faithful over many things2 only they who do their duty in everyday and trivial matters who will fulfil them on great occasions4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,the ,great ,unknown4 ,march #ba4 ,brother1 said the abbot1 make ready for me the divine elements1 that ,i may consecrate them4 ,and he asking the reason therefor1 the saint replied1 ,that ,i may partake thereof with all my brethren before ,i depart hence4 ,for know assuredly that within the seventh day ,i shall migrate to the celestial mansions4 ,for this night stood by me in a dream those two women whom ,i love1 and for whom ,i pray1 the one clothed in a white1 the other in a ruby-coloured garment1 and holding each other by the hand1 who said to me1 ',that life after death is not such a one as you fancy3 come1 therefore1 and behold what it is like4' ,hypatia1 chap4 xxx4 #aheb4 ,loss nor ,gain1 ,march #bb4 ,nothing is more expensive than penuriousness2 nothing more anxious than carelessness2 and every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,ancient ,greek ,education1 ,march #bc4 ,we talk of education now4 ,are we more educated than were the ancient ,greeks8 ,do we know anything about education1 physical1 intellectual1 aesthetic 7religious education in our sense of the word of course they had none71 of which they have not taught us at least the rudiments8 ,are there not some branches of education which they perfected once and for ever1 leaving us northern barbarians to follow or not to follow their example8 ,to produce health1 that is1 harmony and sympathy1 proportion and grace1 in every faculty of mind and body--that was their notion of education4 ,ah6 the waste of health and strength in the young6 ,the waste1 too1 of anxiety and misery in those who love and tend them6 ,how much of it might be saved by a little rational education in those laws of nature which are the will of ,god about the welfare of our bodies1 and which1 therefore1 we are as much bound to know and to obey as we are bound to know and to obey the spiritual laws whereon depend the welfare of our souls4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,body and ,soul4 ,march #bd4 ,exalt me with ,thee1 ,o ,lord1 to know the mystery of life1 that ,i may use the earthly as the appointed expression and type of the heavenly1 and1 by using to ,thy glory the natural body1 may be fit to be exalted to the use of the spiritual body4 ,amen4 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 ,moderation4 ,march #be4 ,let us pray for that great--,i had almost said that crowning grace and virtue of ,moderation1 what ,st4 ,paul calls sobriety and a sound mind4 ,let us pray for moderate appetites1 moderate passions1 moderate honours1 moderate gains1 moderate joys2 and if sorrows be needed to chasten us1 moderate sorrows4 ,let us not long violently after1 or wish too eagerly to rise in life4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahfi4 ,poetry in the ,slums4 ,march #bf4 ,true poetry1 like true charity1 my laddie1 begins at home4 4 4 4 ,hech6 is there no the heaven above them there1 and the hell beneath them8 and ,god frowning1 and the devil grinning8 ,no poetry there6 ,is no the verra idea of the classic tragedy defined to be man conquered by circumstance8 canna ye see it there8 ,and the verra idea of the modern tragedy1 man conquering circumstance8 and ,i'll show ye that too--in many a garret where no eye but the good ,god's enters to see the patience1 and the fortitude1 and the self-sacrifice1 and the love stronger than death1 that's shining in those dark places of the earth4 ,ah1 poetry's grand--but fact is grander2 ,god and ,satan are grander4 ,all around ye1 in every gin-shop and costermonger's cellar1 are ,god and ,satan at death-grips2 every garret is a haill ,paradise ,lost or ,paradise ,regained4 ,alton ,locke1 chap4 viii4 #ahdi4 ,time and ,eternity4 ,march #bg4 4 4 4 ,our life's floor ,is laid upon ,eternity2 no crack in it ,but shows the underlying heaven4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act iii4 ,scene ii4 ,work4 ,march #bh4 ,yes4 ,life is meant for work1 and not for ease2 to labour in danger and in dread1 to do a little good ere the night comes when no man can work1 instead of trying to realise for oneself a paradise2 not even ,bunyan's shepherd-paradise1 much less ,fourier's casino-paradise1 and perhaps1 least of all1 because most selfish and isolated of all1 our own art-paradise1 the apotheosis of loafing1 as ,claude calls it4 ,prose ,idylls4 #ahdi4 ,teaching of ,pictures4 ,march #bi4 ,pictures raise blessed thoughts in me4 ,why not in you1 my toiling brother8 ,those landscapes painted by loving1 wise1 old ,claude two hundred years ago1 are still as fresh as ever4 ,how still the meadows are6 ,how pure and free that vault of deep blue sky6 ,no wonder that thy worn heart1 as thou lookest1 sighs aloud1 ,oh1 that ,i had wings as a dove1 then would ,i flee away and be at rest4 ,ah6 but gayer meadows and bluer skies await thee in the world to come--that fairyland made real--the new heavens and the new earth which ,god hath prepared for the pure and the loving1 the just1 and the brave1 who have conquered in this sore fight of life4 ,true ,words for ,brave ,men4 #ahdi4 ,voluntary ,heroism4 ,march #cj4 ,any man or woman1 in any age and under any circumstances1 who will1 can live the heroic life and exercise heroic influences4 ,it is of the essence of self-sacrifice1 and therefore of heroism1 that it should be voluntary2 a work of supererogation1 at least1 towards society and man2 an act to which the hero or heroine is not bound by duty1 but which is above though not against duty4 ,lecture on ,heroism4 #ahgb4 ,the ,ideal ,holy ,one4 ,march #ca4 ,have you never cried in your hearts with longing1 almost with impatience1 ,surely1 surely1 there is an ideal ,holy ,one somewhere--or else1 how could have arisen in my mind the conception1 however faint1 of an ideal holiness8 ,but where8 oh1 where8 ,not in the world around strewn with unholiness4 ,not in myself1 unholy too1 without and within4 ,is there a ,holy ,one1 whom ,i may contemplate with utter delight8 and if so1 where is ,he8 ,oh1 that ,i might behold1 if but for a moment1 ,his perfect beauty1 even though1 as in the fable of ,semele of old1 'the lightning of ,his glance were death4' 4 4 4 ,and then1 oh1 then--has there not come that for which our spirit was athirst--the very breath of pure air1 the very gleam of pure light1 the very strain of pure music--for it is the very music of the spheres--in those words1 ,holy1 holy1 holy1 ,lord ,god ,almighty1 which was1 and is1 and is to come8 ,yes1 whatever else is unholy1 there is a ,holy ,one--spotless and undefiled1 serene and self-contained4 ,whatever else ,i cannot trust1 there is ,one whom ,i can trust utterly4 ,whatever else ,i am dissatisfied with1 there is ,one whom ,i can contemplate with utter satisfaction1 and bathe my stained soul in that eternal fount of purity4 ,and who is ,he8 ,who1 save the ,cause and ,maker and ,ruler of all things past1 present1 and to come8 ,sermon on ,all ,saints' ,day4 #ahgd4 ,charles ,kingsley's ,dying ,words1 ,,how ,,beautiful ,,god ,,is4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,march #be4 ,the ,annunciation of the ,blessed ,virgin1 ,,commonly ,,called ,lady ,day4 ,it is one of the glories of our holy religion1 and one of the ways by which the ,gospel takes such hold on our hearts1 that1 mixed up with the grandest and most mysterious and most divine matters1 are the simplest1 the most tender1 the most human4 ,what more grand1 or deep1 or divine words can we say than1 ,i believe in ,jesus ,christ1 ,god's only ,son our ,lord1 who was conceived by the ,holy ,ghost1--and yet what more simple1 human1 and tender words can we say than1 ,who was born of the ,virgin ,mary8 ,for what more beautiful sight on earth than a young mother with her babe upon her knee8 ,beautiful in itself2 but doubly beautiful to those who can say1 ,i believe in ,him who was born of the ,virgin ,mary4 ,for since ,he was born of woman1 and thereby took the manhood into ,god1 birth is holy1 and childhood holy1 and all a mother's joys and a mother's cares are holy to the ,lord2 and every ,christian mother with her babe in her arms is a token and a sign from ,god1 a pledge of ,his good-will towards men1 a type and pattern of her who was highly-favoured and blessed above all women4 ,everything has its time1 and ,lady-,day is the time for our remembering the ,blessed ,virgin4 ,for our hearts and reasons tell us 7and have told all ,christians in all ages71 that she must have been holier1 nobler1 fairer in body and soul1 than all women upon earth4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 ,april4 ,wild1 wild wind1 wilt thou never cease thy sighing8 ,dark1 dark night1 wilt thou never wear away8 ,cold1 cold ,church1 in thy death sleep lying1 ,thy ,lent is past1 thy ,passion here1 but not thine ,easter ,day4 ,peace1 faint heart1 though the night be dark and sighing1 ,rest fair corpse1 where thy ,lord ,himself hath lain4 ,weep1 dear ,lord1 above ,thy bride low lying1 ,thy tears shall wake her frozen limbs to life and health again4 ,the ,dead ,church4 ,the ,song of ,birds4 ,april #a4 ,st4 ,francis called the birds his brothers4 ,perfectly sure that he himself was a spiritual being1 he thought it at least possible that the birds might be spiritual beings likewise1 incarnate like himself in mortal flesh1 and saw no degradation to the dignity of human nature in claiming kindred lovingly with creatures so beautiful1 so wonderful1 who 7as he fancied in his old-fashioned way7 praised ,god in the forest even as angels did in heaven4 ,prose ,idylls4 #ahfg4 ,true ,reformers4 ,april #b4 ,it is not the many who reform the world2 but the few who rise superior to that ,public ,opinion which crucified our ,lord many years ago4 ,,ms4 ,lecture at ,cambridge4 #ahff4 ,high ,ideals4 ,april #c4 ,what if a man's idea of ,the ,church be somewhat too narrow for the year of grace #ah--1 is it no honour to him that he has such an idea at all8 that there has risen up before him the vision of a perfect polity1 a divine and wonderful order1 linking earth to heaven1 and to the very throne of ,him who died for men2 witnessing to each of its citizens what the world tries to make him forget1 namely1 that he is the child of ,god ,himself2 and guiding and strengthening him from the cradle to the grave to do his ,father's work8 ,is it no honour to him that he has seen that such a polity must exist1 that he believes that it does exist1 or that he thinks he finds it in its highest1 if not in its most perfect form1 in the most ancient and august traditions of his native land8 ,true1 he may have much still to learn4 4 4 4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 iv4 #ahef4 ,divine ,knowledge4 ,april #d4 ,that glorious word know--it is ,god's attribute1 and includes in itself all others4 ,love1 truth--all are parts of that awful power of knowing at a single glance1 from and to all eternity1 what a thing is in its essence1 its properties1 and its relations to the whole universe through all ,time4 ,i feel awestruck whenever ,i see that word used rightly1 and ,i never1 if ,i can remember1 use it myself of myself4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,woman's ,love4 ,april #e4 ,the story of ,ruth is the consecration of woman's love4 ,i do not mean of the love of wife to husband1 divine and blessed as that is4 ,i mean that depth and strength of devotion1 tenderness1 and self-sacrifice1 which ,god has put into the heart of all true women2 and which they spend so strangely1 and so nobly often1 on persons who have no claim on them1 and from whom they can receive no earthly reward--the affection which made women minister of their substance to our ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 which brought ,mary ,magdalene to the foot of the cross and to the door of the tomb--the affection which made a wise man say that as long as women and sorrow are left in the world1 so long will the gospel of our ,lord ,jesus live and conquer therein4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 ,feeling and ,emotion4 ,april #f4 ,live a life of feeling1 not of excitement4 ,let your religion1 your duties1 every thought and word1 be ruled by the affections1 not by the emotions1 which are the expressions of them4 ,do not consider whether you are glad1 sorry1 dull1 or spiritual at any moment1 but be yourself--what ,god makes you4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,the ,beasts that perish4 ,april #g4 ,st4 ,paul says that he himself saw through a glass darkly4 ,but this he seems to have seen1 that the ,lord1 when ,he rose from the dead1 brought a blessing even for the dumb beasts and the earth on which we live4 ,he says the whole creation is now groaning in the pangs of labour1 about to bring forth something1 and that the whole creation will rise again--how and when and into what new state we cannot tell2 but that when the ,lord shall destroy death the whole creation shall be renewed4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahea4 ,reverence for ,age4 ,april #h4 ,reverence for age is a fair test of the vigour of youth2 and1 conversely1 insolence towards the old and the past1 whether in individuals or in nations1 is a sign rather of weakness than of strength4 ,lecture on ,westminster ,abbey4 #ahgd4 ,prayers for the ,dead4 ,april #i4 ,we do not in the ,church of ,england now pray for the dead4 ,we are not absolutely forbidden by ,scripture to do so4 ,but we believe they are where they ought to be--that they are gone to a perfectly just world1 in which is none of the confusion1 mistakes1 wrong1 and oppression of this world2 in which they will therefore receive the due reward of their deeds done in the body2 and that they are in the hands of a perfectly just ,god1 who rewardeth every man according to his work4 ,it seems therefore unnecessary1 and1 so to speak1 an impertinence towards ,god1 to pray for them who are in the unseen world of spirits exactly in the state which they have deserved4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 ,diversities of ,gifts4 ,april #aj4 ,why expect ,wisdom with love in all8 ,each has his gift-- ,our souls are organ pipes of diverse stop ,and various pitch3 each with its proper notes ,thrilling beneath the self-same breath of ,god4 ,though poor alone1 yet joined1 they're harmony4 ,saints' ,tragedy1 ,act ii4 ,scene v4 #ahdg4 ,the ,atonement4 ,april #aa4 ,how ,christ's death takes away thy sins thou wilt never know on earth--perhaps not in heaven4 ,it is a mystery which thou must believe and adore4 ,but why ,he died thou canst see at the first glance1 if thou hast a human heart and will look at what ,god means thee to look at--,christ upon ,his ,cross4 ,he died because ,he was ,love--love itself1 love boundless1 unconquerable1 unchangeable--love which inhabits eternity1 and therefore could not be hardened or foiled by any sin or rebellion of man1 but must love men still--must go out to seek and save them1 must dare1 suffer any misery1 shame1 death itself1 for their sake--just because it is absolute and perfect ,love which inhabits eternity4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 ,a ,day's ,work4 ,april #ab4 ,make a rule1 and pray to ,god to help you to keep it1 never1 if possible1 to lie down at night without being able to say1 ,i have made one human being at least a little wiser1 a little happier1 or a little better this day4 ,you will find it easier than you think1 and pleasanter4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,self-control4 ,april #ac4 ,a well-educated moral sense1 a well-educated character1 saves from idleness and ennui1 alternating with sentimentality and excitement1 those tenderer emotions1 those deeper passions1 those nobler aspirations of humanity1 which are the heritage of the woman far more than of the man1 and which are potent in her1 for evil or for good1 in proportion as they are left to run wild and undisciplined1 or are trained and developed into graceful1 harmonious1 self-restraining strength1 beautiful in themselves1 and a blessing to all who come under their influence4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,women and ,novels4 ,april #ad4 ,novels will be read2 but that is all the more reason why women should be trained1 by the perusal of a higher1 broader1 deeper literature1 to distinguish the good novel from the bad1 the moral from the immoral1 the noble from the base1 the true work of art from the sham which hides its shallowness and vulgarity under a tangled plot and a melodramatic situation4 ,they should learn--and that they can only learn by cultivation--to discern with joy and drink in with reverence1 the good1 the beautiful1 and the true1 and to turn with the fine scorn of a pure and strong womanhood from the bad1 the ugly1 and the false4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,expect ,much4 ,april #ae4 ,expect great things from ,god1 and also expect the least things1 for the great test of faith is shown about the least matters4 ,people will believe their soul is sure to be saved who have not the heart to expect that ,god will take away some small burden4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,what is ,theology8 ,april #af4 ,theology signifies the knowledge of ,god as ,he is4 ,and it is dying out among us in these days4 ,much of what is called theology now is nothing but experimental religion1 which is most important and useful when it is founded on the right knowledge of ,god1 but which is not itself theology4 ,for theology begins with ,god1 but experimental religion1 right or wrong1 begins with a man's own soul4 ,discipline and other ,sermons4 ,sweetness and ,light4 ,april #ag4 ,ah1 that we could believe that ,god is love1 and that he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in ,god1 and ,god in him6 ,then we should have no need to be told to cultivate sweetness and light1 for they would seem to us the only temper which could make life tolerable in any corner of the universe4 ,essay on the ,critical ,spirit4 #ahga4 ,the ,contemplative ,life4 ,april #ah4 ,woman is no more capable than man of living on mere contemplation4 ,we must have an object to whom we may devote the fruits of thought1 and unless we have a real one in active life we shall be sure to coin one for ourselves1 and spend our spirits on a dream4 ,true1 true1 chimed in the counsellor1 spirit is little use without body1 and a body it will find2 and therefore1 unless you let people's brains grow healthy plants1 they will grow mushrooms4 ,,ms4 unfinished ,story4 #ahdc4 ,sudden ,death4 ,april #ai4 ,what better can the ,lord do for a man1 than take him home when he has done his work8 ,but1 ,master ,yeo1 a sudden death8 ,and why not a sudden death1 ,sir ,john8 ,even fools long for a short life and a merry one1 and shall not the ,lord's people pray for a short death and a merry one8 ,let it come as it will to old ,yeo6 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 xxxii4 #ahee4 ,prayer and ,praise4 ,april #bj4 ,pray night and day1 very quietly1 like a little weary child1 to the good and loving ,god1 for everything you want1 in body as well as soul--the least thing as well as the greatest4 ,nothing is too much to ask ,god for--nothing too great for ,him to grant3 glory be to ,thee1 ,o ,lord6 ,and try to thank ,him for everything 4 4 4 ,i sometimes feel that eternity will be too short to praise ,god in1 if it was only for making us live at all6 ,and then not making us idiots or cripples1 or even only ugly and stupid6 ,what blessings we have6 ,let us work in return for them--not under the enslaving sense of paying off an infinite debt1 but with the delight of gratitude1 glorying that we are ,god's debtors4 ,letters4 #ahdc4 ,the ,divine ,spark4 ,april #ba4 ,man8 ,i am a man1 thou art a woman--not by reason of bones and muscles1 nerves and brain1 which ,i have in common with apes1 and dogs1 and horses--,i am a man1 thou art a man or woman1 not because we have a flesh1 ,god forbid6 but because there is a spirit in us1 a divine spark and ray which nature did not give1 and which nature cannot take away4 ,and therefore1 while ,i live on earth1 ,i will live to the spirit1 not to the flesh1 that ,i may be indeed a man4 ,lecture on ,ancient ,civilisation4 #ahgc4 ,the ,worst ,calamity4 ,april #bb4 ,the very worst calamity1 ,i should say1 which could befall any human being would be this--to have his own way from his cradle to his grave2 to have everything he liked for the asking1 or even for the buying2 never to be forced to say1 ,i should like that1 but ,i cannot afford it4 ,i should like this1 but ,i must not do it4 ,never to deny himself1 never to exert himself1 never to work1 and never to want--that man's soul would be in as great danger as if he were committing great crimes4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 ,men and ,women4 ,april #bc4 ,the ,lord be with you1 dearest lady1 said ,adrian ,gilbert4 ,strange how you women sit at home to love and suffer1 while we men rush forth to break our hearts and yours against rocks of our own seeking6 ,ah6 hech6 were it not for ,scripture ,i should have thought that ,adam1 rather than ,eve1 had been the one who plucked the fruit of the forbidden tree4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 xiii4 #ahee4 ,faith in the ,unseen4 ,april #bd4 ,he was not one of those ungodly men of whom ,david speaks in his ,psalms1 who rob the widow and the fatherless4 ,his morality was as high as that of the average1 his honour higher4 ,but of godliness in its true sense--of belief that any ,being above cared for him1 and was helping him in the daily business of life3 that it was worth while asking that ,being's advice1 or that any advice would be given if asked for--of any practical notion of a heavenly ,father or a ,divine educator--he was as ignorant as thousands of persons who go to church every ,sunday1 and read good books1 and believe firmly that the ,pope is ,antichrist4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 i4 #ahef4 ,death--,resurrection4 ,april #be4 ,as we rose to go1 my eye caught a highly-finished drawing of the ,resurrection painted above the place where the desk and faldstool and lectern1 holding an open missal book1 stood4 ,i should have rather expected1 ,i thought to myself1 a picture of the ,crucifixion4 ,she seemed to guess my thought1 and said1 ,there is enough in an abode of heavy hearts1 and in daily labours among poverty and suffering1 to keep in our minds the ,prince of ,sufferers4 ,we need rather to be reminded that pain is not the law but the disease of our existence1 and that it has been conquered for us in body and soul by ,him in whose eternity of bliss a few years of sadness were but as a mote within the sunbeam's blaze4 ,,ms4 unfinished ,story4 l#hdc4 ,woman's ,work4 ,april #bf4 ,woman is the teacher1 the natural and therefore divine guide1 purifier1 inspirer of man4 ,,ms4 ,passion--,easter--,ascension4 ,april #bg4 ,good ,friday1 ,easter ,day1 and ,ascension1 are set as great lights in the firmament of the spiritual year2--to remind us that we are not animals born to do what we like1 and fulfil the simple lusts of the flesh--but that we are rational moral beings1 members of ,christ1 children of ,god1 and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven1 and that1 therefore1 like ,christ1 we must die in order to live1 stoop in order to conquer4 ,they remind us that honour must grow out of humility2 that freedom must grow out of discipline2 that sure conquest must be born of heavy struggles2 righteous joy out of righteous sorrow2 pure laughter out of pure tears2 true strength out of the true knowledge of our own weakness2 sound peace of mind out of sound contrition4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahga4 ,how to keep ,passion-,week4 ,april #bh4 ,can we go wrong if we keep our ,passion-week as ,christ kept ,his8 ,and how did ,he keep it8 ,not by shutting ,himself up apart1 not by the mere thinking over the glory of self-sacrifice4 ,he taught daily in the temple2 instead of giving up ,his work1 ,he worked more earnestly than ever as the terrible end drew near4 ,why should not we keep ,passion-week1 not by merely hiding in our closets to meditate even about ,him1 but by going about our work each in his place1 dutifully1 bravely1 as ,christ went8 ,town and ,country ,sermons4 #ahei4 ,self-,sacrifice4 ,april #bi4 ,without self-sacrifice there can be no blessedness either in earth or in heaven4 ,he that loveth his life will lose it4 ,he that hateth his life in this paltry1 selfish1 luxurious world shall keep it to life eternal4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahgj4 ,help from our ,blessed ,dead4 ,april #cj4 ,and so with those who are ,christ's whom we love4 ,partakers of ,his death1 they are partakers of ,his resurrection4 ,let us believe the blessed news in all its fulness1 and be at peace4 ,a little while and we see them1 and again a little while and we do not see them4 ,but why8 ,because they are gone to the ,father1 to the ,source and ,fount of all life and power1 all light and love1 that they may gain life from ,his life1 power from ,his power1 light from ,his light1 love from ,his love2 and surely not for nought4 ,surely not for nought4 ,for if they were like ,christ on earth1 and did not use their powers for themselves alone2 if they are to be like ,christ when they see ,him as ,he is1 then1 more surely1 will they not use their powers for themselves1 but as ,christ uses ,his1 for those they love4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 #ahff4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,passion-tide4 ,from the earliest times the ,cross has been the special sign of ,christians4 ,st4 ,paul tells us his great hope1 his great business1 what ,god had sent him into the world to do1 was this--to make people know the love of ,christ2 to look at ,christ's ,cross1 and take in its breadth and length and depth and height4 ,and what is the breadth of ,christ's ,cross8 ,my friends1 it is as broad as the whole world1 for ,he died for the whole world2 as it is written1 ,he is a propitiation not for our sins only1 but for the sins of the whole world4 ,and that is the breadth of ,christ's ,cross4 ,and what is the length of ,christ's ,cross8 ,long enough to last through all time4 ,as long as there is a sinner to be saved2 as long as there is ignorance1 sorrow1 pain1 death1 or anything else which is contrary to ,god and hurtful to man in the universe of ,god1 so long will ,christ's ,cross last4 ,and that is the length of the ,cross of ,christ4 ,and how high is ,christ's ,cross8 ,as high as the highest heaven1 and the throne of ,god and the bosom of the ,father--that bosom out of which for ever proceed all created things4 ,ay1 as high as the highest heaven2 for1 if you will receive it1 when ,christ hung upon the ,cross heaven came down on earth1 and earth ascended into heaven4 ,and that is the height of the ,cross of ,christ4 ,and how deep is the ,cross of ,christ8 ,this is a great mystery which people are afraid to look into1 and darken it of their own will4 ,but if the ,cross of ,christ be as high as heaven1 then it must be as deep as hell1 deep enough to reach the deepest sinner in the deepest pit to which he may fall1 for ,christ descended into hell1 and preached to the spirits in prison4 ,let us hope1 then1 that is the depth of the ,cross of ,christ4 ,the ,measure of the ,cross1 ,sermons 7,good ,news of ,god74 ,good ,friday4 ,listen6 and our ,god shall whisper1 as we hang upon the cross1 #ig ,children6 love6 and loving1 faint not6 great your glory1 light your loss6 ,ye are bound--ye may be loosed--,i was nailed upon the tree1 ,of the pangs ,i suffered for you--bear awhile a few for me6 ,fear not1 though the waters whelm you2 fear not1 though ye see no land6 ,know ye not your ,god is with you1 guiding with a ,father's hand8 ,cords may wring1 and winds may freeze you1 shivering on the sullen sea1 ,yet the life that burns within you liveth ever hid with ,me6 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 ,christ must suffer before ,he entered into ,his glory4 ,he must die before ,he could rise4 ,he must descend into hell before ,he could ascend into heaven4 ,for this is the law of ,god's kingdom4 ,without a ,good ,friday there can be no ,easter ,day4 ,without self-sacrifice there can be no blessedness4 ,my ,saviour6 ,my ,king6 ,infinite1 ,eternal ,love--alone of all beings devoid of self-love6 ,glory be to ,thee for ,thy humiliation1 for ,thy ,cross and ,passion6 ,,ms4 ,easter ,even4 ,christ went down into hell and preached to the spirits in prison4 ,it is written that as in ,adam all die1 even so in ,christ shall all be made alive2 and again1 ,when the wicked man turns from his wickedness he shall save his soul alive4 ,and we know that in the same chapter ,god tells us that ,his ways are not unequal4 ,it is possible1 therefore1 that ,he has not one law for this life and another for the life to come4 ,let us hope1 then1 that ,david's words may be true after all1 when1 speaking by the ,spirit of ,god1 he says not only if ,i ascend up to heaven1 thou art there1 but if ,i go down to hell1 thou art there also4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 ,easter ,day4 ,the ,creed says1 ,i believe in the ,resurrection of the flesh4 ,i believe that we1 each of us1 as human beings1 men and women1 shall have a share in that glorious day2 not merely as ghosts and disembodied spirits1 but as real live human beings1 with new bodies of our own1 on a new earth1 under a new heaven4 ,therefore1 ,david says1 my flesh shall rest in hope2 not merely my soul1 my ghost1 but my flesh4 ,for the ,lord1 who not only died but rose again with ,his body1 shall raise our bodies according to ,his mighty working1 and then the whole manhood of us--body1 soul1 and spirit--shall have our perfect consummation and bliss in ,his eternal and everlasting glory4 ,national ,sermons4 ,,april #be4 ,st4 ,mark1 ,evangelist and ,martyr4 ,god's apostles1 saints1 and martyrs are our spiritual ancestors4 ,they spread the ,gospel into all lands1 and they spread it1 remember always1 not only by preaching what they knew1 but by being what they were4 ,their characters1 their personal histories1 are as important to us as their writings4 ,sermons4 ,may4 ,is it merely a fancy that we are losing that love for ,spring which among our old forefathers rose almost to worship8 ,that the perpetual miracle of the budding leaves and the returning song-birds awakes no longer in us the astonishment which it awoke yearly among the dwellers in the old world1 when the sun was a god who was sick to death each winter1 and returned in spring to life1 and health1 and glory2 when ,freya1 the goddess of youth and love1 went forth over the earth while the flowers broke forth under her tread over the brown moors1 and the birds welcomed her with song8 ,to those simpler children of a simpler age winter and spring were the two great facts of existence2 the symbols1 the one of death1 the other of life2 and the battle between the two--the battle of the sun with darkness1 of winter with spring1 of death with life1 of bereavement with love--lay at the root of all their myths and all their creeds4 ,surely a change has come over our fancies6 ,the seasons are little to us now6 ,prose ,idylls4 ,past and ,present4 ,may #a4 ,now see the young spring leaves burst out a-maying1 ,fill with their ripening hues orchard and glen2 ,so though old forms pass by1 ne'er shall their spirit die1 ,look6 ,england's bare boughs show green leaf again4 ,poems4 #ahdi4 ,the ,earth is the ,lord's4 ,may #b4 ,the earth is holy6 ,can there be a more glorious truth to carry out--one which will lead us more into all love and beauty and purity in heaven and earth8 ,one which must have ,god's light of love shining on it at every step4 ,god gives us souls and bodies exquisitely attuned for this very purpose--the aesthetic faculty1 our sensibilities to the beautiful4 ,all events of life1 all the workings of our hearts1 should point to this one idea4 ,as ,i walk the fields1 the trees and flowers and birds1 and the motes of rack floating in the sky1 seem to cry to me3 ,thou knowest us6 ,thou knowest we have a meaning1 and sing a heaven's harmony by night and day6 ,do us justice6 ,spell our enigma1 and go forth and tell thy fellows that we are their brethren1 that their spirit is our spirit1 their ,saviour our ,saviour1 their ,god our ,god6 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,the ,great ,question4 ,may #c4 ,is there a living ,god in the universe1 or is there not8 ,that is the greatest of all questions4 ,has our ,lord ,jesus ,christ answered it1 or has ,he not8 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahff4 ,our ,father4 ,may #d4 ,look at those thousand birds1 and without our ,father not one of them shall fall to the ground2 and art thou not of more value than many sparrows--thou for whom ,god sent ,his ,son to die8 4 4 4 ,ah6 my friend1 we must look out and around to see what ,god is like4 ,it is when we persist in turning our eyes inward1 and prying curiously over our own imperfections1 that we learn to make a god after our own image1 and fancy that our own hardness and darkness are the patterns of ,his light and love4 ,hypatia1 chap4 xi4 ,want of ,sympathy4 ,may #e4 ,if we do not understand our fellow-creatures we shall never love them4 ,and it is equally true1 that if we do not love them we shall never understand them4 ,want of charity1 want of sympathy1 want of good feeling and fellow-feeling--what does it1 what can it breed but endless mistakes and ignorances1 both of men's characters and men's circumstances8 ,westminster ,sermons4 #ahgc4 ,a ,religion4 ,may #f4 ,if all that a man wants is a religion1 he ought to be able to make a very pretty one for himself1 and a fresh one as often as he is tired of the old4 ,but the heart and soul of man wants more than that2 as it is written1 ,my soul is athirst for ,,god1 even for the living ,god4 ,i want a living ,god1 who cares for men1 forgives men1 saves men from their sins3 and ,him ,i have found in the ,bible1 and nowhere else1 save in the facts of life which the ,bible alone interprets4 ,sermons on the ,pentateuch4 #ahfc4 ,true ,civilisation4 ,may #g4 ,do the duty which lies nearest to you2 your duty to the man who lives next door1 and to the man who lives in the next street4 ,do your duty to your parish1 that you may do your duty by your country and to all mankind1 and prove yourselves thereby civilised men4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahff4 ,nature and ,grace4 ,may #h4 ,why speak of the ,god of ,nature and the ,god of grace as two antithetical terms8 ,the ,bible never in a single instance makes the distinction1 and surely if ,god be the eternal and unchangeable ,one1 and if all the universe bears the impress of ,his signet1 we have no right1 in the present infantile state of science1 to put arbitrary limits of our own to the revelation which ,he may have thought good to make of ,himself in ,nature4 ,nay1 rather1 let us believe that if our eyes were opened we should fulfil the requirement of genius and see the universal in the particular by seeing ,god's whole likeness1 ,his whole glory1 reflected as in a mirror in the meanest flower1 and that nothing but the dulness of our simple souls prevents them from seeing day and night in all things the ,lord ,jesus ,christ fulfilling ,his own saying1 ,my ,father worketh hitherto1 and ,i work4 ,glaucus4 #ahee4 ,wisdom the ,child of ,goodness4 ,may #i4 ,goodness rather than talent had given her a wisdom1 and goodness rather than courage a power of using that wisdom1 which to those simple folk seemed almost an inspiration4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 ii4 #aheg4 ,rule of ,life4 ,may #aj4 ,two great rules for the attainment of heavenly wisdom are simple enough--,never forget what and where you are1 and ,grieve not the ,holy ,spirit4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahda4 ,music the ,speech of ,god4 ,may #aa4 ,music--there is something very wonderful in music4 ,words are wonderful enough1 but music is more wonderful4 ,it speaks not to our thoughts as words do1 it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits1 to the very core and root of our souls4 ,music soothes us1 stirs us up2 it puts noble feelings into us2 it melts us to tears1 we know not how2 it is a language by itself1 just as perfect1 in its way1 as speech1 as words2 just as divine1 just as blessed4 ,music has been called the speech of angels2 ,i will go farther1 and call it the speech of ,god ,himself4 ,the old ,greeks1 the wisest of all the heathen1 made a point of teaching their children music1 because1 they said1 it taught them not to be self- willed and fanciful1 but to see the beauty of order1 the usefulness of rule1 the divineness of law4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 #ahei4 ,facing ,realities4 ,may #ab4 ,the only comfort ,i can see in the tragedies of war is that they bring us all face to face with the realities of human life1 as it has been in all ages1 giving us sterner and yet more loving1 more human1 and more divine thoughts about ourselves1 and our business here1 and the fate of those who are gone1 and awakening us out of the luxurious1 frivolous1 and unreal dream 7full nevertheless of hard judgments7 in which we have been living so long1 to trust in a living ,father who is really and practically governing this world and all worlds1 and who willeth that none should perish4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahee4 ,street ,arabs4 ,may #ac4 ,one has only to go into the streets of any great city in ,england to see how we1 with all our boast of civilisation1 are yet but one step removed from barbarism4 ,is that a hard word8 ,only there are the barbarians round us at every street corner--grown barbarians1 it may be1 now all but past saving1 but bringing into the world young barbarians whom we may yet save1 for ,god wishes us to save them4 4 4 4 ,do not deceive yourselves about the little dirty1 offensive children in the street4 ,if they be offensive to you1 they are not to ,him who made them4 ,take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones3 for ,i say unto you1 their angels do always behold the face of your ,father which is in heaven4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahga4 ,fellowship of ,sorrow4 ,may #ad4 ,how was ,he1 ,the blessed ,one1 made perfect8 ,why1 by grief-- ,the fellowship of voluntary grief-- ,he read the tear-stained book of poor men's souls1 ,as we must learn to read it4 ,lady6 lady6 ,wear but one robe the less--forego one meal-- ,and thou shalt taste the core of many tales1 ,which now flit past thee1 like a minstrel's songs1 ,the sweeter for their sadness4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act ii4 ,scene v4 #ahdg4 ,heaven and ,hell4 ,may #ae4 ,heaven and hell--the spiritual world--are they merely invisible places in space which may become visible hereafter8 or are they not rather the moral world of right and wrong8 ,love and righteousness--is not that the heaven itself wherein ,god dwells8 ,hatred and sin--is not that hell itself1 wherein dwells all that is opposed to ,god8 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 ,the ,awfulness of ,life4 ,may #af4 ,our hearts are dull1 and hard1 and light1 ,god forgive us6 and we forget continually what an earnest1 awful world we live in--a whole eternity waiting for us to be born1 and a whole eternity waiting to see what we shall do now we are born4 ,yes1 our hearts are dull1 and hard1 and light4 ,and therefore ,christ sends suffering on us1 to teach us what we always gladly forget in comfort and prosperity--what an awful capacity of suffering we have2 and more1 what an awful capacity of suffering our fellow-creatures have likewise4 4 4 4 ,we sit at ease too often in a fool's paradise1 till ,god awakens us and tortures us into pity for the torture of others4 ,and so1 if we will not acknowledge our brotherhood by any other teaching1 ,he knits us together by the brotherhood of suffering4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahga4 ,hope and ,fear4 ,may #ag4 ,every gift of ,god is good1 and given for our happiness1 and we sin if we abuse it4 ,to use your fancy to your own misery is to abuse it and to sin4 ,the realm of the possible was given to man to hope and not to fear in4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,cry of the ,heart and ,reason4 ,may #ah4 ,a living ,god1 a true ,god1 a real ,god1 a ,god worthy of the name1 a ,god who is working for ever1 everywhere1 and in all2 who hates nothing that ,he has made1 forgets nothing1 neglects nothing2 a ,god who satisfies not only the head but the heart1 not only the logical intellect but the highest reason--that pure reason which is one with the conscience and moral sense6 ,for ,him we cry out1 ,him we seek1 and if we cannot find ,him we know no rest4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahfg4 ,speaking the ,truth in ,love4 ,may #ai4 ,whenever we are tempted to say more than is needful1 let us remember ,st4 ,john's words 7in the only sermon we have on record of his71 ,little children1 love one another1 and ask ,god for ,his ,holy ,spirit1 the spirit of love1 which1 instead of weakening a man's words1 makes them all the stronger in the cause of truth1 because they are spoken in love4 ,how difficult it is to distinguish between the loving tact1 which avoids giving offence to a weaker brother1 and the fear of man1 which bringeth a snare6 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,peasant ,souls4 ,may #bj4 4 4 4 ,dull boors ,see deeper than we think1 and hide within ,those leathern hulls unfathomable truths1 ,which we amid thought's glittering mazes lose4 ,they grind among the iron facts of life1 ,and have no time for self-deception4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act iii4 ,scene ii4 #ahdg4 ,death and ,everlasting ,life4 ,may #ba4 ,do not rashly count on some sudden radical change happening to you as soon as you die to make you fit for heaven4 ,there is not one word in the ,bible which gives us reason to suppose that we shall not be in the next world the same persons that we have made ourselves in this world4 4 4 4 ,what we sow here we shall reap there4 ,and it is good for us to know and face this4 ,anything is good for us1 however unpleasant it may be1 which drives us from the only real misery1 which is sin and selfishness1 to the only true happiness1 which is the everlasting life of ,christ1 a pure1 loving1 just1 generous1 useful life of goodness4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 ,science and ,virtue4 ,may #bb4 ,science is great2 but she is not the greatest4 ,she is an instrument and not a power--beneficent or deadly1 according as she is wielded by the hand of virtue or vice4 ,but her lawful mistress1 the only one which can use her aright1 the only one under whom she can truly grow and prosper and prove her divine descent1 is ,virtue1 the likeness of ,almighty ,god4 ,roman and ,teuton4 #ahfj4 ,a ,child's ,heart4 ,may #bc4 ,i saw at last6 ,i found out that ,i had been trying for years which was stronger1 ,god or ,i2 ,i found out ,i had been trying whether ,i could not do well enough without ,him2 and there ,i found that ,i could not--could not6 ,i felt like a child who had marched off from home1 fancying it can find its way1 and is lost at once4 ,i did not know that ,i had a ,father in heaven who had been looking after me1 when ,i fancied ,i was looking after myself4 ,i don't half believe it now4 4 4 4 ,and so the old heart passed away from ,thomas ,thurnall1 and instead of it grew up the heart of a little child4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xxviii4 #aheg4 ,self-,security4 ,may #bd4 ,strange it is how mortal man1 who cometh up and is cut down like the flower1 can harden himself into a stoical security1 and count on the morrow which may never come4 ,yet so it is1 and perhaps if it were not so no work would get done on earth--at least by the many who know not that ,god is guiding them1 while they fancy they are guiding themselves4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 i4 ,there is a ,providence which rules this earth1 whose name is neither ,political ,economy nor ,expediency1 but the ,living ,god1 who makes every right action reward1 and every wrong action punish1 itself4 ,history ,lecture1 ,cambridge4 #ahff4 ,loss and ,gain4 ,may #be4 ,he has yet to learn what losing his life to save it means1 ,amyas4 ,bad men have taught him 7and ,i fear these ,anabaptists and ,puritans at home teach little else7 that it is the one great business of every man to save his own soul after he dies2 every one for himself2 and that that1 and not divine self-sacrifice1 is the one thing needful1 and the better part which ,mary chose4 ,i think1 said ,amyas1 men are enough inclined to be selfish without being taught that4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 vii4 #ahed4 ,the ,law of ,righteousness4 ,may #bf4 ,what if ,i had discovered that one law of the spiritual world1 in which all others were contained1 was ,righteousness8 and that disharmony with that law1 which we call unspirituality1 was not being vulgar1 or clumsy1 or ill-taught1 or unimaginative1 or dull2 but simply being unrighteous8 that righteousness1 and it alone1 was the beautiful1 righteousness the sublime1 the heavenly1 the ,god-like--ay1 ,god ,himself8 ,hypatia1 chap4 xxvii4 #aheb4 ,human and ,divine ,love4 ,may #bg4 ,believe me that he who has been led by love to a human being to understand the mystery of that divine love which fills all heaven and earth1 and concentrates itself into an articulate manifestation in the person of ,christ1 will soon begin to find that he cannot enter into the perfect bliss of that truth without going further1 and seeing that the human heart requires some standing-ground for its affection1 even for the love of wife and child1 deeper and surer than that love1 namely1 in utter loyalty1 resignation1 adoring affection to ,him in whom all loveliness is concentrated4 ,it is a great mystery4 ,it is a hard lesson4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdg4 ,a ,high ,finish4 ,may #bh4 ,a high artistic finish is important for more reasons than for the mere pleasure it gives4 ,there is something sacramental in perfect metre and rhythm4 ,they are outward and visible signs 7most seriously we speak as we say it7 of an inward and spiritual grace1 namely1 of the self-possessed and victorious temper of one who has so far subdued nature as to be able to hear that universal sphere-music of hers1 speaking of which ,mr4 ,carlyle says1 that all deepest thoughts instinctively vent themselves in song4 ,miscellanies4 #ahdi4 ,our ,prayers4 ,may #bi4 ,there can be no objection to praying for certain special things4 ,god forbid6 ,i cannot help doing it1 any more than a child in the dark can help calling for its mother4 ,only it seems to me that when we pray1 ,grant this day that we run into no kind of danger1 we ought to lay our stress on the run rather than on the danger1 to ask ,god not to take away the danger by altering the course of nature1 but to give us light and guidance whereby to avoid it4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahfj4 ,clearing ,showers4 ,may #cj4 ,when a stream is swelled by a flood1 a shower of rain clears it4 ,so in trouble1 when the heart is turbid from the world's admixtures1 and the stirring up of the foul particles which will lie at the bottom1 nothing but the pure dew of heaven can restore its purity1 when ,god's spirit comes down upon it like a gentle rain6 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,vineyards in ,spring4 ,may #ca4 ,look at the rows of vines1 or what will be vines when the summer comes1 but are now black1 knotted and gnarled clubs1 without a sign of life in the seemingly dead stick4 ,one who sees that sight may find a new beauty and meaning in the mystic words1 ,i am the ,vine1 ye are the branches4 ,it is not merely the connection between branch and stem common to all trees2 not merely the exhilarating and seemingly inspiring properties of the grape1 which made the very heathen look upon it as the sacred and miraculous fruit1 the special gift of ,god2 not merely the pruning out of the unfruitful branches1 to be burned as firewood--not merely these1 but the seeming death of the ,vine1 shorn of all its beauty1 its fruitfulness1 of every branch and twig which it had borne the year before1 and left unsightly and seemingly ruined1 to its winter sleep2 and then bursting forth again by an irresistible inward life into fresh branches1 spreading and trailing far and wide1 and tossing their golden tendrils to the sky4 ,this thought surely--the emblem of the living ,church1 springing from the corpse of the dead ,christ1 who yet should rise to be alive for evermore--enters into1 it may be forms an integral part of1 the meaning of that prophecy of all prophecies4 ,prose ,idylls4 #ahfd4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,may #a4 ,st4 ,philip and ,st4 ,james1 ,apostles and ,martyrs4 ,christ's cross says still1 and will say to all ,eternity1 ,wouldst thou be good8 ,wouldst thou be like ,god8 ,then work and dare1 and if need be1 suffer for thy fellow-men4 ,on the ,cross ,christ consecrated1 and as it were offered to the ,father in ,his own body1 all loving actions1 unselfish actions1 merciful actions1 heroic actions1 which man has done or ever will do4 ,from ,him1 from ,his spirit1 their strength came2 and therefore ,he is not ashamed to call them brethren4 ,he is the ,king of the noble army of martyrs2 of all who suffer for love and truth and justice' sake2 and to all such ,he says1 thou hast put on ,my likeness2 thou hast suffered for ,my sake1 and ,i too have suffered for thy sake1 and enabled thee to suffer likewise1 and in ,me thou too art a ,son of ,god1 in whom the ,father is well pleased4 ,sermons4 ,feast of the ,ascension4 ,lo1 ,i am with you always1 said the ,blessed ,one before ,he ascended to the ,father4 ,and this is the ,lord who we fancy is gone away far above the stars till the end of time6 ,oh1 my friends1 rather bow your heads before ,him at this moment6 ,for here ,he is among us now1 listening to every thought of our poor simple hearts4 ,he is where ,god is1 in whom we live1 and move1 and have our being1 and that is everywhere4 ,do you wish ,him to be any nearer8 ,national ,sermons4 4 4 4 ,oh1 my ,saviour6 ,my ,god6 where art ,thou8 ,that's but a tale about ,thee1 ,that crucifix above--it does but show ,thee ,as ,thou wast once1 but not as ,thou art now4 4 4 4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act iv4 ,scene i4 ,june4 ,three o'clock1 upon a still1 pure1 ,midsummer morning4 4 4 4 ,the white glare of dawn1 which last night hung high in the north-west1 has travelled now to the north-east1 and above the wooded wall of the hills the sky is flushing with rose and amber4 ,a long line of gulls goes wailing inland2 the rooks come cawing and sporting round the corner at ,landcross1 while high above them four or five herons flap solemnly along to find their breakfast on the shallows4 ,the pheasants and partridges are clucking merrily in the long wet grass2 every copse and hedgerow rings with the voice of birds2 but the lark1 who has been singing since midnight in the blank height of the dark1 suddenly hushes his carol and drops headlong among the corn1 as a broad-winged buzzard swings from some wooded peak into the abyss of the valley1 and hangs high-poised above the heavenward songster4 ,the air is full of perfume2 sweet clover1 new-mown hay1 the fragrant breath of kine1 the dainty scent of sea-weed1 and fresh wet sand4 ,glorious day1 glorious place1 bridal of earth and sky1 decked well with bridal garments1 bridal perfumes1 bridal songs4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 xii4 ,open ,thou mine ,eyes4 ,june #a4 ,i have wandered in the mountains mist-bewildered1 ,and now a breeze comes1 and the veil is lifted2 ,and priceless flowers1 o'er which ,i trod unheeding1 ,gleam ready for my grasp4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act i4 ,scene ii4 #ahdg4 ,the ,spirit of ,romance4 ,june #b4 ,some say that the spirit of romance is dead4 ,the spirit of romance will never die as long as there is a man left to see that the world might and can be better1 happier1 wiser1 fairer in all things than it is now4 ,the spirit of romance will never die as long as a man has faith in ,god to believe that the world will actually be better and fairer than it is now1 as long as men have faith1 however weak1 to believe in the romance of all romances1 in the wonder of all wonders1 in that of which all poets' dreams have been but childish hints and dim forefeelings--even ,that one divine far-off event ,towards which the whole creation moves1 that wonder which our ,lord ,himself has bade us pray for as for our daily bread1 and say1 ,father1 ,thy kingdom come1 ,thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahfe4 ,the ,everlasting ,music4 ,june #c4 ,all melody and all harmony upon earth1 whether in the song of birds1 the whisper of the wind1 the concourse of voices1 or the sounds of those cunning instruments which man has learnt to create1 because he is made in the image of ,christ1 the ,word of ,god1 who creates all things2 all music upon earth1 ,i say1 is beautiful in as far as it is a pattern and type of the everlasting music which is in heaven1 which was before all worlds and shall be after them4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 #ahei4 ,gifts are ,duties4 ,june #d4 ,exceeding gifts from ,god are not blessings1 they are duties1 and very solemn and heavy duties4 ,they do not always increase a man's happiness2 they always increase his responsibility1 the awful account which he must render at last of the talents committed to his charge4 ,they increase1 too1 his danger4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 ,summer ,days4 ,june #e4 ,now let the young be glad1 ,fair girl and gallant lad1 ,and sun themselves to-day ,by lawn and garden gay2 ',tis play befits the noon ,of rosy-girdled ,june2 4 4 4 4 4 ,the world before them1 and above ,the light of ,universal ,love4 ,installation ,ode1 ,cambridge4 #ahfb4 ,sufficient for the ,day4 ,june #f4 ,let us not meddle with the future1 and matters which are too high for us1 but refrain our souls1 and keep them low like little children1 content with the day's food1 and the day's schooling1 and the day's play-hours1 sure that the ,divine ,master knows that all is right1 and how to train us1 and whither to lead us2 though we know not and need not know1 save this1 that the path by which ,he is leading each of us1 if we will but obey and follow step by step1 leads up to everlasting life4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahga4 ,secret of ,thrift4 ,june #g4 ,the secret of thrift is knowledge4 ,the more you know the more you can save yourself and that which belongs to you1 and can do more work with less effort4 ,knowledge of domestic economy saves income2 knowledge of sanitary laws saves health and life3 knowledge of the laws of the intellect saves wear and tear of brain1 and knowledge of the laws of the spirit--what does it not save8 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,out-door ,worship4 ,june #h4 ,in the forest1 every branch and leaf1 with the thousand living things which cluster on them1 all worship1 worship1 worship with us6 ,let us go up in the evenings and pray there1 with nothing but ,god's cloud temple between us and ,his heaven6 ,and ,his choir of small birds and night crickets and booming beetles1 and all happy things who praise ,him all night long6 ,and in the still summer noon1 too1 with the lazy-paced clouds above1 and the distant sheep-bell1 and the bee humming in the beds of thyme1 and one bird making the hollies ring a moment1 and then all still--hushed--awe-bound1 as the great thunder-clouds slide up from the far south6 ,then1 then1 to praise ,god6 ,ay1 even when the heaven is black with wind1 the thunder crackling over our heads1 then to join in the paean of the storm-spirits to ,him whose pageant of power passes over the earth and harms us not in its mercy6 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdd4 ,god's ,countenance4 ,june #i4 ,study nature as the countenance of ,god6 ,try to extract every line of beauty1 every association1 every moral reflection1 every inexpressible feeling from it4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,certain and ,uncertain4 ,june #aj4 ,life is uncertain1 folks say4 ,life is certain1 say ,i1 because ,god is educating us thereby4 ,but this process of education is so far above our sight that it looks often uncertain and utterly lawless2 wherefore fools conceive 7as does ,m4 ,comte7 that there is no ,living ,god1 because they cannot condense ,his formulas into their small smelling-bottles4 ,o glorious thought6 that we are under a ,father's education1 and that ,he has promised to develop us1 and to make us go on from strength to strength4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahfh4 ,sensuality4 ,june #aa4 ,what is sensuality8 ,not the enjoyment of holy glorious matter1 but blindness to its meaning4 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 ,the ,journey's ,end4 ,june #ab4 ,let us live hard1 work hard1 go a good pace1 get to our journey's end as soon as possible--then let the post-horse get his shoulder out of the collar4 4 4 4 ,i have lived long enough to feel1 like the old post-horse1 very thankful as the end draws near4 4 4 4 ,long life is the last thing that ,i desire4 ,it may be that1 as one grows older1 one acquires more and more the painful consciousness of the difference between what ought to be done and what can be done1 and sits down more quietly when one gets the wrong side of fifty1 to let others start up to do for us things we cannot do for ourselves4 ,but it is the highest pleasure that a man can have who has 7to his own exceeding comfort7 turned down the hill at last1 to believe that younger spirits will rise up after him1 and catch the lamp of ,truth1 as in the old lamp-bearing race of ,greece1 out of his hand before it expires1 and carry it on to the goal with swifter and more even feet4 ,speech at ,lotus ,club1 ,new ,york4 #ahgd4 ,punishment ,inevitable4 ,june #ac4 ,it is a fact that ,god does punish here1 in this life4 ,he does not1 as false preachers say1 give over this life to impunity and this world to the devil1 and only resume the reigns of moral government and the right of retribution when men die and go into the next world4 ,here in this life ,he punishes sin4 ,slowly but surely ,god punishes4 ,if any of you doubt my words you have only to commit sin and then see whether your sin will find you out4 ,sermons on ,david4 #ahff4 ,the ,problem ,solved4 ,june l#d4 ,after all1 the problem of life is not a difficult one1 for it solves itself so very soon at best--by death4 ,do what is right the best way you can1 and wait to the end to know4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 ,but remember that though death may alter our place1 it cannot alter our character--though it may alter our circumstances1 it cannot alter ourselves4 ,discipline and other ,sermons4 ,the ,father's ,education4 ,june #ae4 ,sin1 ,greek text1 is the missing of a mark1 the falling short of an ideal2 4 4 4 and that each miss brings a penalty1 or rather is itself the penalty1 is to me the best of news and gives me hope for myself and every human being past1 present1 and future1 for it makes me look on them all as children under a paternal education1 who are being taught to become aware of1 and use their own powers in ,god's house1 the universe1 and for ,god's work in it2 and1 in proportion as they do that1 they attain salvation1 ,letters and ,memories4 #aheb4 ,parent and ,child4 ,june #af4 ,superstition is the child of fear1 and fear is the child of ignorance4 ,lectures on ,science and ,superstition4 #ahff4 ,a ,charm of ,birds4 ,june #ag4 ,listen to the charm of birds in any sequestered woodland on a bright forenoon in early summer4 ,as you try to disentangle the medley of sounds1 the first1 perhaps1 which will strike your ear will be the loud1 harsh1 monotonous1 flippant song of the chaffinch1 and the metallic clinking of two or three sorts of titmice4 ,but above the tree-tops1 rising1 hovering1 sinking1 the woodlark is fluting tender and low4 ,above the pastures outside the skylark sings--as he alone can sing2 and close by from the hollies rings out the blackbird's tenor--rollicking1 audacious1 humorous1 all but articulate4 ,from the tree above him rises the treble of the thrush1 pure as the song of angels2 more pure1 perhaps1 in tone1 though neither so varied nor so rich as the song of the nightingale4 ,and there1 in the next holly1 is the nightingale himself2 now croaking like a frog1 now talking aside to his wife1 and now bursting out into that song1 or cycle of songs1 in which if any man find sorrow1 he himself surely finds none4 4 4 4 ,in ,nature there is nothing melancholy4 ,prose ,idylls4 #ahff4 ,notes of ,character4 ,june #ah4 ,without softness1 without repose1 and therefore without dignity4 ,,ms4 ,our ,blessed ,dead4 ,june #ai4 ,why should not those who are gone be actually nearer us1 not farther from us1 in the heavenly world1 praying for us1 and it may be influencing and guiding us in a hundred ways of which we1 in our prison-house of mortality1 cannot dream8 ,yes6 ,do not be afraid to believe that he whom you have lost is near you1 and you near him1 and both of you near ,god1 who died on the cross for you4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahga4 ,silent ,influence4 ,june #bj4 ,violence is not strength1 noisiness is not earnestness4 ,noise is a sign of want of faith1 and violence is a sign of weakness4 ,by quiet1 modest1 silent1 private influence we shall win4 ,neither strive nor cry nor let your voice be heard in the streets1 was good advice of old1 and is still4 ,i have seen many a movement succeed by it4 ,i have seen many a movement tried by the other method of striving and crying and making a noise in the streets1 but ,i have never seen one succeed thereby1 and never shall4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahgj4 ,chivalry4 ,june #ba4 ,some say that the age of chivalry is past4 ,the age of chivalry is never past as long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth1 and a man or woman left to say1 ,i will redress that wrong1 or spend my life in the attempt4 ,the age of chivalry is never past as long as men have faith enough in ,god to say1 ,god will help me to redress that wrong2 or if not me1 surely ,he will help those that come after me4 ,for ,his eternal will is to overcome evil with good4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahfe4 ,nature and ,art4 ,june #bb4 ,when once you have learnt the beauty of little mossy banks1 and tiny leaves1 and flecks of cloud1 with what a fulness the glories of ,claude1 or ,ruysdael1 or ,berghem1 will unfold themselves to you6 ,you must know ,nature or you cannot know ,art4 ,and when you do know ,nature you will only prize ,art for being like ,nature4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,simple and ,sincere4 ,june #bc4 ,there are those1 and1 thanks to ,almighty ,god1 they are to be numbered by tens of thousands1 who will not perplex themselves with questionings2 simple1 genial hearts1 who try to do what good they can in the world1 and meddle not with matters too high for them2 people whose religion is not abstruse but deep1 not noisy but intense1 not aggressive but laboriously useful2 people who have the same habit of mind as the early ,christians seem to have worn1 ere yet ,catholic truth had been defined in formulae1 when the ,apostles' ,creed was symbol enough for the ,church1 and men were orthodox in heart rather than exact in head4 ,for such it is enough if a fellow-creature loves ,him whom they love1 and serves ,him whom they serve4 ,personal affection and loyalty to the same unseen ,being is to them a communion of saints both real and actual1 in the genial warmth of which all minor differences of opinion vanish4 4 4 4 ,preface to ,tauler's ,sermons4 #ahed4 ,god's ,words4 ,june #bd4 ,do ,i mean1 then1 that this or any text has nothing to do with us8 ,god forbid6 ,i believe that every word of our ,lord's has to do with us1 and with every human being1 for their meaning is infinite1 eternal1 and inexhaustible4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 ,taught by ,failure4 ,june #be4 ,so ,i am content to have failed4 ,i have learned in the experiment priceless truths concerning myself1 my fellow-men1 and the city of ,god1 which is eternal in the heavens1 for ever coming down among men1 and actualising itself more and more in every succeeding age4 ,i only know that ,i know nothing1 but with a hope that ,christ1 who is the ,son of ,man1 will tell me piecemeal1 if ,i be patient and watchful1 what ,i am and what man is4 ,letters and ,memories4 #aheg4 ,presentiments4 ,june #bf4 ,i cannot deny1 said ,claude1 that such things as presentiments may be possible4 ,however miraculous they may seem1 are they so very much more so than the daily fact of memory8 ,i can as little guess why we remember the past1 as why we may not at times be able to foresee the future4 4 4 4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xxviii4 ,a thing need not be unreasonable--that is1 contrary to reason--because it is above and beyond reason1 or1 at least1 our human reason1 which at best 7as ,st4 ,paul says7 sees as in a glass darkly4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahef4 ,common ,duties4 ,june #bg4 ,but after all1 what is speculation to practice8 ,what does ,god require of us1 but to do justly1 to love mercy1 and to walk humbly with ,him8 ,the longer ,i live this seems to me more important1 and all other questions less so--if we can but live the simple right life-- ,do the work that's nearest1 ,though it's dull at whiles2 ,helping1 when we meet them1 ,lame dogs over stiles4 ,letters and ,memories4 #aheg4 ,lost and ,found4 ,june #bh4 ,my welfare8 ,it is gone6 ,so much the better4 ,i never found mine till ,i lost it4 ,hypatia1 chap4 xxvii4 #aheb4 ,how to bear ,sorrow4 ,june #bi4 ,i believe that the wisest plan is sometimes not to try to bear sorrow--as long as one is not crippled for one's everyday duties--but to give way to it utterly and freely4 ,perhaps sorrow is sent that we may give way to it1 and in drinking the cup to the dregs1 find some medicine in it itself1 which we should not find if we began doctoring ourselves1 or letting others doctor us4 ,if we say simply1 ,i am wretched--,i ought to be wretched2 then we shall perhaps hear a voice1 ,who made thee wretched but ,god8 ,then what can ,he mean but thy good8 ,and if the heart answers impatiently1 ,my good8 ,i don't want it1 ,i want my love2 perhaps the voice may answer1 ,then thou shalt have both in time4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahga4 ,a certain ,hope4 ,june #cj4 ,let us look forward with quiet certainty of hope1 day and night2 believing1 though we can see but little day1 that all this tangled web will resolve itself into golden threads of twined1 harmonious life1 guiding both us1 and those we love1 together1 through this life to that resurrection of the flesh1 when we shall at last know the reality and the fulness of life and love4 ,even so come1 ,lord ,jesus6 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdd4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,whit ,sunday4 ,think of the ,holy ,spirit as a ,person having a will of ,his own1 who breatheth whither ,he listeth1 and cannot be confined to any feelings or rules of yours or of any man's1 but may meet you in the ,sacraments or out of the ,sacraments1 even as ,he will1 and has methods of comforting and educating you of which you will never dream2 ,one whose will is the same as the will of the ,father and of the ,son1 even a good will4 ,discipline ,sermons4 ,trinity ,sunday4 ,some things ,i see clearly and hold with desperate clutch4 ,a ,father in heaven for all1 a ,son of ,god incarnate for all1 and a ,spirit of the ,father and the ,son--who works to will and to do of ,his own good pleasure in every human being in whom there is one spark of active good1 the least desire to do right or to be of use--the ,fountain of all good on earth4 ,letters and ,memories4 ,,june #aa4 ,st4 ,barnabas1 ,apostle and ,martyr4 4 4 4 ,which is ,love8 ,to do ,god's will1 or merely suffer it8 4 4 4 4 4 ,no6 ,i must headlong into seas of toil1 ,leap far from self1 and spend my soul on others4 ,for contemplation falls upon the spirit1 ,like the chill silence of an autumn sun3 ,while action1 like the roaring south-west wind1 ,sweeps laden with elixirs1 with rich draughts ,quickening the wombed earth4 ,saint's ,tragedy4 ,,june #ba4 ,st4 ,john the ,baptist4 ,how shall we picture ,john the ,baptist to ourselves8 ,great painters have exercised their fancy upon his face1 his figure1 his actions4 ,the best which ,i can recollect is ,guido's--of the magnificent lad sitting on the rock1 half clad in his camel's-hair robe1 his stalwart hand lifted up to denounce he hardly knows what1 save that things are going all wrong1 utterly wrong to him--his beautiful mouth open to preach he hardly knows what1 save that he has a message from ,god1 of which he is half conscious as yet--that he is a forerunner1 a prophet1 a foreteller of something and some one who is to come1 and which is very near at hand4 ,the wild rocks are round him1 the clear sky over him1 and nothing more1 4 4 4 and he1 the noble and the priest1 has thrown off--not in discontent and desperation 7for he was neither democrat nor vulgar demagogue71 but in hope and awe--all his family privileges1 all that seems to make life worth having2 and there aloft and in the mountains1 alone with ,god and ,nature1 feeding on locusts and wild honey and clothed in skins1 he1 like ,elijah of old1 preaches to a generation sunk in covetousness1 party spirit1 and superstition--preaches what8--,the most common--,morality4 ,ah1 wise politician6 ah1 clear and rational spirit1 who knows and tells others to do the duty which lies nearest to them6 4 4 4 who in the hour of his country's deepest degradation had divine courage to say1 our deliverance lies1 not in rebellion but in doing right4 ,st4 ,john the ,baptist1 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 ,,june #bi4 ,st4 ,peter1 ,apostle and ,martyr4 ,god is revealed in the ,crucified2 ,the ,crucified must be revealed in me3-- ,i must put on ,his righteousness2 show forth ,his sorrow's glory2 hunger1 weep with ,him2 ,taste ,his keen stripes1 and let this aching flesh ,sink through ,his fiery baptism into death4 ,saint's ,tragedy4 ,st4 ,peter1 as he is drawn in the ,gospels and the ,acts1 is a grand and colossal human figure1 every line and feature of which is full of meaning and full of beauty to us4 ,sermons1 ,discipline4 ,july4 ,it was a day of ,god4 ,the earth lay like one great emerald1 ringed and roofed with sapphire3 blue sea1 blue mountain1 blue sky overhead4 ,there she lay1 not sleeping1 but basking in her quiet ,sabbath joy1 as though her two great sisters of the sea and air had washed her weary limbs with holy tears1 and purged away the stains of last week's sin and toil1 and cooled her hot worn forehead with their pure incense-breath1 and folded her within their azure robes1 and brooded over her with smiles of pitying love1 till she smiled back in answer1 and took heart and hope for next week's weary work4 ,heart and hope for next week's work4--,that was the sermon which it preached to ,tom ,thurnall1 as he stood there alone1 a stranger and a wanderer like ,ulysses of old3 but1 like him1 self-helpful1 cheerful1 fate defiant4 ,he was more of a heathen than ,ulysses--for he knew not what ,ulysses knew1 that a heavenly guide was with him in his wanderings2 still less that what he called the malicious sport of fortune was1 in truth1 the earnest education of a ,father4 4 4 4 ,brave old world she is after all1 he said2 and right well made2 and looks right well to-day in her go-to-meeting clothes1 and plenty of room and chance for a brave man to earn his bread1 if he will but go right on about his business1 as the birds and the flowers do1 instead of peaking and pining over what people think of him4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xiv4 ,nature and ,grace4 ,july #a4 ,god is the ,god of ,nature as well as the ,god of ,grace4 ,for ever ,he looks down on all things which ,he has made2 and behold they are very good4 ,and therefore we dare to offer to ,him in our churches the most perfect works of naturalistic art1 and shape them into copies of whatever beauty ,he has shown us in man or woman1 in cave or mountain-peak1 in tree or flower1 even in bird or butterfly4 ,but ,himself8 ,who can see ,him except the humble and the contrite heart1 to whom ,he reveals ,himself as a ,spirit to be worshipped in spirit and in truth1 and not in bread nor wood1 nor stone nor gold1 nor quintessential diamond8 ,lecture on ,grots and ,groves4 #ahga4 ,love and ,book-,learning4 ,july #b4 ,i see more and more that the knowledge of one human being1 such as love alone can give1 and the apprehension of our own private duties and relations1 is worth more than all the book-learning in the world4 ,,ms4 ,the ,ancient ,creeds4 ,july #c4 ,blessed and delightful it is when we find that even in these new ages the ,creeds1 which so many fancy to be at their last gasp1 are still the finest and highest succour1 not merely of the peasant and the outcast1 but of the subtle artist and the daring speculator4 ,blessed it is to find the most cunning poet of our day able to combine the rhythm and melody of modern times with the old truths which gave heart to the martyrs at the stake1 to see in the science and the history of the nineteenth century new and living fulfilments of the words which we learnt at our mother's knee6 ,miscellanies4 #ahej4 ,a ,master-,truth4 ,july #d4 ,every creature of ,god is good1 if it be sanctified with prayer and thanksgiving6 ,this to me is the master-truth of ,christianity1 the forgetfulness of which is at the root of almost all error4 ,it seems to me that it was to redeem man and the earth that ,christ was made man and used the earth6--that ,christianity has never yet been pure1 because it never yet1 since ,st4 ,paul's time1 has stood on this as the fundamental truth1 and that it has been pure or impure1 just in proportion as it has practically and really acknowledged this truth4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,english ,women4 ,july #e4 ,let those who will sneer at the women of ,england4 ,we who have to do the work and fight the battle of life know the inspiration which we derive from their virtue1 their counsel1 their tenderness--and1 but too often1 from their compassion and their forgiveness4 ,there is1 ,i doubt not1 still left in ,england many a man with chivalry and patriotism enough to challenge the world to show so perfect a specimen of humanity as a cultivated ,british woman4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,life retouched again4 ,july #f4 ,even in the saddest woman's soul there linger snatches of old music1 odours of flowers long dead and turned to dust1--pleasant ghosts1 which still keep her mind attuned to that which may be in others1 though in her never more2 till she can hear her own wedding-hymn re-echoed in the tones of every girl who loves1 and see her own wedding-torch re-lighted in the eyes of every bride4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 xxix4 ,mystery of ,life4 ,july #g4 ,all things begin in some wonder1 and in some wonder end1 said ,st4 ,augustine1 wisest in his day of mortal men4 ,it is a strange thing1 and a mystery1 how we ever got into this world2 a stranger thing still to me how we shall ever get out of this world again4 ,yet they are common things enough--birth and death4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 ,beauty of ,life4 ,july #h4 ,the ,greeks were1 as far as we know1 the most beautiful race which the world ever saw4 ,every educated man knows that they were the cleverest of all nations1 and1 next to his ,bible1 thanks ,god for ,greek literature4 ,now the ,greeks had made physical1 as well as intellectual education a science as well as a study4 ,their women practised graceful1 and in some cases even athletic exercises4 ,they developed1 by a free and healthy life1 those figures which remain everlasting and unapproachable models of human beauty4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,study the human figure1 both as intrinsically beautiful and as expressing mind4 ,it only expresses the broad natural childish emotions1 which are just what we want to return to from our over subtlety4 ,study natural language--,i mean the language of attitude4 ,it is an inexhaustible source of knowledge and delight1 and enables one human being to understand another so perfectly4 ,therefore learn to draw and paint figures4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,true ,civilisation4 ,july #i4 ,civilisation with me shall mean--not more wealth1 more finery1 more self- indulgence1 even more aesthetic and artistic luxury--but more virtue1 more knowledge1 more self-control1 even though ,i earn scanty bread by heavy toil4 ,lecture on ,ancient ,civilisation4 #ahgd4 ,the ,church4 ,july #aj4 ,the ,church is a very good thing1 and ,i keep to mine1 said ,captain ,willis1 having served under her ,majesty and her ,majesty's forefathers1 and learned to obey orders1 ,i hope2 but don't you think1 sir1 you're taking it as the ,pharisees took the ,sabbath ,day8 ,how then8 ,why1 as if man was made for the ,church1 and not the ,church for man4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 ii4 #ahef4 ,what does ,god ask8 ,july #aa4 ,what is this strange thing1 without which even the true knowledge of doctrine is of no use8 without which either a man or a nation is poor1 and blind1 and wretched1 and naked in soul1 notwithstanding all his religion8 ,isaiah will tell1 ,wash you1 make you clean1 saith the ,lord4 ,do justice to the fatherless1 relieve the widow4 ,church-building and church-going are well1 but they are not repentance4 ,churches are not souls4 ,i ask for your hearts1 and you give me fine stones and fine words4 ,i want souls1 ,i want your souls4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahea4 ,work or ,want4 ,july #ab4 ,remember that we are in a world where it is not safe to sit under the tree and let the ripe fruit drop into your mouth2 where the competition of species works with ruthless energy among all ranks of being1 from kings upon their thrones to the weed upon the waste2 where he that is not hammer is sure to be anvil2 and he who will not work neither shall he eat4 ,ancien ,regime4 #ahfg4 ,true ,insight4 ,july #ac4 ,it is easy to see the spiritual beauty of ,raffaelle's ,madonnas1 but it requires a deeper and more practised1 all-embracing1 loving1 simple spirituality1 to see the same beauty in the face of a worn-out1 painful1 peasant woman haggling about the price of cottons4 ,form and colour are but the vehicle for the spirit-meaning4 ,in the spiritual body ,i fancy they will both be united with the meaning--all and every part and property of man and woman instinct with spirit6 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,retribution inevitable4 ,july #ad4 ,know this--that as surely as ,god sometimes punishes wholesale1 so surely is ,he always punishing in detail4 ,by that infinite concatenation of moral causes and effects1 which makes the whole world one mass of special ,providences1 every sin of ours will punish itself1 and probably punish itself in kind4 ,are we selfish8 ,we shall call out selfishness in others4 ,do we neglect our duty8 ,then others will neglect their duty to us4 ,do we indulge our passions8 ,then others who depend on us will indulge theirs1 to our detriment and misery4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 ,antinomies4 ,july #ae4 ,spiritual truths present themselves to us in antinomies1 apparently contradictory pairs1 pairs of poles1 which1 however1 do not really contradict1 or even limit1 each other1 but are only correlatives1 the existence of the one making the existence of the other necessary1 explaining each other1 and giving each other a real standing ground and equilibrium4 ,such an antinomic pair are1 ,he that loveth not knoweth not ,god1 and ,if a man hateth not his father and mother he cannot be ,my disciple4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdh4 ,false ,refinement4 ,july #af4 ,god's ,word1 while it alone sanctifies rank and birth1 says to all equally1 ,ye are brethren1 work for each other4 ,let us then be above rank1 and look at men as men1 and women as women1 and all as ,god's children4 ,there is a refinement which is the invention of that sensual mind1 which looks only at the outward and visible sign4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdc4 ,music's ,meaning4 ,july #ag4 ,some quick music is inexpressibly mournful4 ,it seems just like one's own feelings--exultation and action1 with the remembrance of past sorrow wailing up1 yet without bitterness1 tender in its shrillness1 through the mingled tide of present joy2 and the notes seem thoughts--thoughts pure of words2 and a spirit seems to call to me in them and cry1 ,hast thou not felt all this8 ,and ,i start when ,i find myself answering unconsciously1 ,yes1 yes1 ,i know it all6 ,surely we are a part of all we see and hear6 ,and then1 the harmony thickens1 and all distinct sound is pressed together and absorbed in a confused paroxysm of delight1 where still the female treble and the male bass are distinct for a moment1 and then one again--absorbed into each other's being--sweetened and strengthened by each other's melody4 4 4 4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,vagueness of ,mind4 ,july #ah4 ,by allowing vague inconsistent habits of mind1 almost persuaded by every one you love1 when you are capable by one decided act of leading them1 you may be treading blindfold a terrible path to your own misery4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,a ,faith for ,daily ,life4 ,july #ai4 ,that is not faith1 to see ,god only in what is strange and rare2 but this is faith1 to see ,god in what is most common and simple1 to know ,god's greatness not so much from disorder as from order1 not so much from those strange sights in which ,god seems 7but only seems7 to break ,his laws1 as from those common ones in which ,he fulfils ,his laws4 ,town and ,country ,sermons4 ,charms of ,monotony4 ,july #bj4 ,i delight in that same monotony4 ,it saves curiosity1 anxiety1 excitement1 disappointment1 and a host of bad passions4 ,it gives a man the blessed1 invigorating feeling that he is at home2 that he has roots deep and wide struck down into all he sees1 and that only the ,being who can do nothing cruel or useless can tear them up4 ,it is pleasant to look down on the same parish day after day1 and say ,i know all that is beneath1 and all beneath know me4 ,it is pleasant to see the same trees year after year1 the same birds coming back in spring to the same shrubs1 the same banks covered by the same flowers4 ,prose ,idylls4 #aheg4 ,how to attain4 ,july #ba4 ,if our plans are not for time but for eternity1 our knowledge1 and therefore our love to ,god1 to each other1 to everything1 will progress for ever4 ,and the attainment of this heavenly wisdom requires neither ecstacy nor revelation1 but prayer and watchfulness1 and observation1 and deep and solemn thought4 ,two great rules for its attainment are simple enough--,never forget what and where you are1 and grieve not the ,holy ,spirit1 for ,if a man will do ,god's will he shall know of the doctrine4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,the ,divine ,discontent4 ,july #bb4 ,i should like to make every one ,i meet discontented with themselves2 ,i should like to awaken in them1 about their physical1 their intellectual1 their moral condition1 that divine discontent which is the parent first of upward aspiration and then of self-control1 thought1 effort to fulfil that aspiration even in part4 ,for to be discontented with the divine discontent1 and to be ashamed with the noble shame1 is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue4 ,lecture on ,science of ,health4 #ahgb4 ,dra et labora4 ,july #bc4 ,working is praying1 said one of the holiest of men4 ,and he spoke truth2 if a man will but do his work from a sense of duty1 which is for the sake of ,god4 ,sermons4 ,distrust and ,anarchy4 ,july #bd4 ,over the greater part of the so-called civilised world is spreading a deep distrust1 a deep irreverence of every man towards his neighbour1 and a practical unbelief in every man whom you do see1 atones for itself by a theoretic belief in an ideal human nature which you do not see4 ,such a temper of mind1 unless it be checked by that which alone can check it1 namely1 the grace of ,god1 must tend towards sheer anarchy4 ,there is a deeper and uglier anarchy than any mere political anarchy1--which the abuse of the critical spirit leads to1--the anarchy of society and of the family1 the anarchy of the head and of the heart1 which leaves poor human beings as orphans in the wilderness to cry in vain1 ,what can ,i know8 ,whom can ,i love8 ,the ,critical ,spirit4 #ahga4 ,a ,future ,life of ,action4 ,july #be4 ,why need we suppose that heaven is to be one vast lazy retrospect8 ,why is not eternity to have action and change1 yet both like ,god1 compatible with rest and immutability8 ,this earth is but one minor planet of a minor system4 ,are there no more worlds8 ,will there not be incident and action springing from these when the fate of this world is decided8 ,has the evil one touched this alone8 ,is it not self-conceit which makes us think the redemption of this earth the one event of eternity8 ,letters4 #ahdb4 ,an ,ideal ,aristocracy4 ,july #bf4 ,we may conceive an ,utopia governed by an aristocracy that should be really democratic1 which should use1 under developed forms1 that method which made the mediaeval priesthood the one great democratic institution of old ,christendom2 bringing to the surface and utilising the talents and virtues of all classes1 even the lowest4 ,lectures on ,ancien ,regime4 #ahfg4 ,our ,weapons4 ,july #bg4 ,god1 who has been very good to us1 will be more good1 if we allow ,him6 ,worldly-minded people think they can manage so much better than ,god4 ,we must trust4 ,our weapons must be prayer and faith1 and our only standard the ,bible4 ,as soon as we leave these weapons and take to knowledge of the world1 and other people's clumsy prejudices as our guides1 we must inevitably be beaten by the ,world1 which knows how to use its own arms better than we do4 ,what else is meant by becoming as a little child8 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdc4 ,uneducated ,women4 ,july #bh4 ,take warning by what you see abroad4 ,in every country where the women are uneducated1 unoccupied2 where their only literature is ,french novels or translations of them--in every one of those countries the women1 even to the highest1 are the slaves of superstition1 and the puppets of priests4 ,in proportion as women are highly educated1 family life and family secrets are sacred1 and the woman owns allegiance and devotion to no confessor or director1 but to her own husband or her own family4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfj4 ,pardon and ,cure4 ,july #bi4 ,after the forgiveness of sin must come the cure of sin4 ,and that cure1 like most cures1 is a long and a painful process4 ,but there is our comfort1 there is our hope--,christ the great ,healer1 the great ,physician1 can deliver us1 and will deliver us1 from the remains of our old sins1 the consequences of our own follies4 ,not1 indeed1 at once1 or by miracle1 but by slow education in new and nobler motives1 in purer and more unselfish habits4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahfa4 ,eternal ,law4 ,july #cj4 ,the eternal laws of ,god's providence are still at work1 though we may choose to forget them1 and the ,judge who administers them is the same yesterday1 to-day1 and for ever1 even ,jesus ,christ the ,lord1 the ,everlasting ,rock1 on which all morality and all society is founded4 ,whosoever shall fall on that ,rock1 in repentance and humility1 shall indeed be broken1 but of him it is written1 ,a broken and a contrite heart1 ,o ,god1 ,thou wilt not despise4 ,discipline and other ,sermons4 #ahff4 ,god's ,mercy or ,man's8 ,july #ca4 ,he fought till he could fight no more1 and then died like a hero1 with all his wounds in front2 and may ,god have mercy on his soul4 ,that last was a ,popish prayer1 ,master ,frank1 said old ,mr4 ,carey4 ,most worshipful sir1 you surely would not wish ,god not to have mercy on his soul8 ,no--,eh8 ,of course not1 for that's all settled by now1 for he is dead1 poor fellow6 ,and you can't help being a little fond of him still8 ,eh8 ,why1 ,i should be a brute if ,i were not4 ,fond of him8 why1 ,i would sooner have given my forefinger than that he should have gone to the dogs4 ,then1 my dear sir1 if you feel for him still1 in spite of all his faults1 how do you know that ,god may not feel for him in spite of all his faults8 ,for my part1 said ,frank1 in his fanciful way1 without believing in that ,popish purgatory1 ,i cannot help holding with ,plato that such heroical souls1 who have wanted but little of true greatness here1 are hereafter1 by strait discipline1 brought to a better mind4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 v4 #ahed4 ,the ,chrysalis ,state4 ,you ask1 ,what is the ,good8 ,i suppose ,god ,himself is the ,good2 and it is this1 in addition to a thousand things1 which makes me feel the absolute certainty of a resurrection1 and a hope that this1 our present life1 instead of being an ultimate one1 which is to decide our fate for ever1 is merely some sort of chrysalis state in which man's faculties are so narrow and cramped1 his chances 7,i speak of the millions1 not of units7 of knowing the ,good so few1 that he may have chances hereafter1 perhaps continually fresh ones1 to all eternity4 ,letters and ,memories4 #aheb4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,july #be4 ,st4 ,james1 ,apostle and ,martyr4 ,and they will know his worth ,years hence 4 4 4 ,and crown him martyr2 and his name will ring ,through all the shores of earth1 and all the stars ,whose eyes are sparkling through their tears to see ,his triumph1 ,preacher and ,martyr4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ,it is over2 and the woe that's dead1 ,rises next hour a glorious angel4 ,santa ,maura4 ,august4 ,i cannot tell what you say1 green leaves1 ,i cannot tell what you say2 ,but ,i know that there is a spirit in you1 ,and a word in you this day4 ,i cannot tell what ye say1 rosy rocks1 ,i cannot tell what ye say2 ,but ,i know that there is a spirit in you1 ,and a word in you this day4 ,i cannot tell what ye say1 brown streams1 ,i cannot tell what ye say2 ,but ,i know1 in you too1 a spirit doth live1 ,and a word in you this day4 ,oh6 rose is the colour of love and youth1 ,and green is the colour of faith and truth1 ,and brown of the fruitful clay4 ,the earth is fruitful and faithful and young1 ,and her bridal morn shall rise erelong1 ,and you shall know what the rocks and streams ,and the laughing green woods say4 ,dartside1 ,august #ahdi4 ,sight and ,insight4 ,august #a4 ,do the work that's nearest1 ,though it's dull at whiles1 ,helping1 when you meet them1 ,lame dogs over stiles2 ,see in every hedgerow ,marks of angels' feet1 ,epics in each pebble ,underneath our feet4 ,the ,invitation4 #aheg4 ,genius and ,character4 ,august #b4 ,i have no respect for genius 7,i do not even acknowledge its existence7 where there is no strength and steadiness of character4 ,if any one pretends to be more than a man he must begin by proving himself a man at all4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xv4 ,nature's ,student4 ,august #c4 ,the perfect naturalist must be of a reverent turn of mind--giving ,nature credit for an inexhaustible fertility and variety1 which will keep him his life long1 always reverent1 yet never superstitious2 wondering at the commonest1 but not surprised by the most strange2 free from the idols of sense and sensuous loveliness2 able to see grandeur in the minutest objects1 beauty in the most ungainly3 estimating each thing not carnally1 as the vulgar do1 by its size1 4 4 4 but spiritually1 by the amount of ,divine thought revealed to him therein4 4 4 4 ,glaucus4 #ahee4 ,the ,masses4 ,august #d4 ,though permitted evils should not avenge themselves by any political retribution1 yet avenge themselves1 if unredressed1 they surely will4 ,they affect masses too large1 interests too serious1 not to make themselves bitterly felt some day4 4 4 4 ,we may choose to look on the masses in the gross as objects for statistics--and of course1 where possible1 for profits4 ,there is ,one above who knows every thirst1 and ache1 and sorrow1 and temptation of each slattern1 and gin-drinker1 and street-boy4 ,the day will come when ,he will require an account of these neglects of ours--not in the gross4 ,miscellanies4 #ahea4 ,we sit in a cloud1 and sing like pictured angels1 ,and say the world runs smooth--while right below ,welters the black1 fermenting heap of life ,on which our ,state is built4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act ii4 ,scene v4 ,love and ,knowledge4 ,august #e4 ,he who has never loved1 what does he know8 ,,ms4 ,siccum ,lumen4 ,august #f4 ,how shall ,i get true knowledge8 ,knowledge which will be really useful1 really worth knowing4 ,knowledge which ,i shall know accurately and practically too1 so that ,i can use it in daily life1 for myself and others8 ,knowledge too1 which shall be clear knowledge1 not warped or coloured by my own fancies1 passions1 prejudices1 but pure and calm and sound2 ,siccum ,lumen1 ,dry ,light1 as the greatest of philosophers called it of old4 ,to all such who long for light1 that by the light they may live1 ,god answers through ,his only begotten ,son3 ,ask and ye shall receive1 seek and ye shall find4 ,westminster ,sermons4 #ahgc4 ,this ,world4 ,august #g4 ,what should the external world be to those who truly love1 but the garden in which they are placed1 not so much for sustenance or enjoyment of themselves and each other1 as to dress it and to keep it--it to be their subject-matter1 not they its tools6 ,in this spirit let us pray ,thy kingdom come4 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 ,the ,life of the ,spirit4 ,august #h4 ,the old fairy superstition1 the old legends and ballads1 the old chronicles of feudal war and chivalry1 the earlier moralities and mysteries--these fed ,shakespeare's youth4 ,why should they not feed our children's8 ,that inborn delight of the young in all that is marvellous and fantastic--has that a merely evil root8 ,no1 surely6 it is a most pure part of their spiritual nature2 a part of the heaven which lies about us in our infancy2 angel-wings with which the free child leaps the prison-walls of sense and custom1 and the drudgery of earthly life4 ,it is a ,god-appointed means for keeping alive what noble ,wordsworth calls those 4 4 4 4 obstinate questionings1 4 4 4 4 4 4 ,blank misgivings of a creature ,moving about in worlds not realised4 ,introductory ,lecture1 ,queen's ,college4 #ahdh4 ,a ,quiet ,depth4 ,august #i4 ,the deepest affections are those of which we are least conscious--that is1 which produce least startling emotion1 and most easy and involuntary practice4 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,acceptable ,sacrifices4 ,august #aj4 ,every time we perform an act of kindness to any human being1 ay1 even to a dumb animal2 every time we conquer our worldliness1 love of pleasure1 ease1 praise1 ambition1 money1 for the sake of doing what our conscience tells us to be our duty1--we are indeed worshipping ,god the ,father in spirit and in truth1 and offering ,him a sacrifice which ,he will surely accept for the sake of ,his beloved ,son1 by whose ,spirit all good deeds and thoughts are inspired4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahga4 ,chivalry4 ,august #aa4 ,chivalry2 an idea which1 perfect or imperfect1 ,god forbid that mankind should ever forget till it has become the possession--as it is the ,god- given right--of the poorest slave that ever trudged on foot2 and every collier lad shall have become ,a very gentle1 perfect knight4 ,lectures on ,ancien ,regime4 #ahfg4 ,god waits for ,man4 ,august #ab4 ,patiently1 nobly1 magnanimously1 ,god waits2 waits for the man who is a fool1 to find out his own folly2 waits for the heart that has tried to find pleasure in everything else1 to find out that everything else disappoints1 and to come back to ,him1 the fountain of all wholesome pleasure1 the well-spring of all life1 fit for a man to live4 ,god condescends to wait for ,his creature2 because what ,he wants is not ,his creature's fear1 but ,his creature's love2 not only his obedience1 but his heart2 because ,he wants him not to come back as a trembling slave to his master1 but as a son who has found out at last what a father he has still left him1 when all beside has played him false4 ,let him come back thus4 ,discipline and other ,sermons4 ,thrift4 ,august #ac4 ,the secret of thriving is thrift2 saving of force2 to get as much work as possible done with the least expenditure of power1 the least jar and obstruction1 the least wear and tear4 ,and the secret of thrift is knowledge4 ,in proportion as you know the laws and nature of a subject1 you will be able to work at it easily1 surely1 rapidly1 successfully1 instead of wasting your money or your energies in mistaken schemes1 irregular efforts1 which end in disappointment and exhaustion4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,revelations4 ,august #ad4 ,only second-rate hearts and minds are melancholy4 ,when we become like little children1 our very playfulness tells that we are seeing deep1 when we see that ,god is love in ,his works as well as in ,himself1 and we look at ,nature as a baby does1 as a beautiful mystery which we scarcely wish to solve4 ,and therefore deep things1 which the intellect in vain struggles after1 will reveal themselves to us4 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 ,christ comes in many ways4 ,august #ae4 ,often ,christ comes to us in ways in which the world would never recognise ,him--in which perhaps neither you nor ,i shall recognise ,him2 but it will be enough1 ,i hope1 if we but hear ,his message1 and obey ,his gracious inspiration1 let ,him speak through whatever means ,he will4 ,he may come to us by some crisis in our life1 either for sorrow or for bliss4 ,he may come to us by a great failure2 by a great disappointment--to teach the wilful and ambitious soul that not in that direction lies the path of peace2 or ,he may come in some unexpected happiness to teach that same soul that ,he is able and willing to give abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 #ahgd4 ,lesson of the ,cross4 ,august #af4 ,on the ,cross ,god has sanctified suffering1 pain1 and sorrow1 and made them holy2 as holy as health and strength and happiness are4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahea4 ,the ,ideal ,unity4 ,august #ag4 ,oh1 make us one4 ,all the world-generations have but one voice6 ,how can we become ,one8 at harmony with ,god and ,god's universe6 ,tell us this1 and the dreary1 dark mystery of life1 the bright1 sparkling mystery of life1 the cloud-chequered1 sun-and-shower mystery of life1 is solved6 for we shall have found one home and one brotherhood1 and happy faces will greet us wherever we move1 and we shall see ,god6 see ,him everywhere1 and be ready to wait for the ,renewal1 for the ,kingdom of ,christ perfected6 ,we came from ,eden1 all of us3 show us how we may return1 hand in hand1 husband and wife1 parent and child1 gathered together from the past and the future1 from one creed and another1 and take our journey into a far country1 which is yet this earth--a world-migration to the heavenly ,canaan1 through the ,red ,sea of ,death1 back again to the land which was given to our forefathers1 and is ours even now1 could we but find it6 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdc4 ,body and ,soul4 ,august #ah4 ,the mystics considered the soul1 i4e4 the intellect1 as the moi and the body as the non moi2 and this idea that the body is not self1 is the fundamental principle of mysticism and asceticism1 and diametrically opposed to the whole doctrines and practice of ,scripture4 ,else why is there a resurrection of the body8 and why does the ,eucharist preserve our body and soul to everlasting life8 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,childlikeness4 ,august #ai4 ,if you wish to be a little child1 study what a little child could understand--,nature2 and do what a little child could do--love4 ,feed on ,nature4 ,it will digest itself4 ,it did so when you were a little child the first time4 ,keep a common-place book1 and put into it not only facts and thoughts1 but observations on form1 and colour1 and nature1 and little sketches1 even to the form of beautiful leaves4 ,they will all have their charm 4 4 4 all do their work in consolidating your ideas4 ,put everything into it4 4 4 4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,inspiration4 ,august #bj4 ,every good deed comes from ,god4 ,his is the idea1 ,his the inspiration1 and ,his its fulfilment in time2 and therefore no good deed but lives and grows with the everlasting life of ,god ,himself4 ,,ms4 ,lifting of the ,veil4 ,august #ba4 ,i seldom pass those hapless loungers who haunt every watering-place without thinking sadly how much more earnest1 happier1 and better men and women they might be if the veil were but lifted from their eyes1 and they could learn to behold that glory of ,god which is all around them like an atmosphere1 while they1 unconscious of what and where they are1 wrapt up each in his little selfish world of vanity and interest1 gaze lazily around them at earth1 sea1 and sky-- ,and have no speculation in those eyes ,which they do glare withal ,glaucus4 #ahee4 ,the ,cross--its meaning4 ,august #bb4 ,to take up the cross means1 in the minds of most persons1 to suffer patiently under affliction4 ,it is a true and sound meaning1 but it means more4 ,why did ,christ take up the cross8 ,not for affliction's sake1 or for the cross's sake1 as if suffering were a good thing in itself4 ,no4 ,but that ,he might thereby do good4 ,that the world through ,him might be saved4 ,that ,he might do good at whatever cost or pain to ,himself4 ,sermons4 ,the ,crucifix4 ,august #bc4 ,if ,i had an image in my room it should be one of ,christ glorified1 sitting at the right hand of ,god4 ,the crucifix has been ,,the image1 because the idea of torture and misery has been ,,the idea in the melancholy and the ferocious 7for the two ultimately go together714 4 4 and thus ascetics became inquisitors4 4 4 4 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,love to ,god proved4 ,august #bd4 ,our love to ,god does not depend upon the emotions of the moment4 ,if you fancy you do not love ,him enough1 above all when ,satan tempts you to look inward1 go immediately and minister to others2 visit the sick1 perform some act of self-sacrifice or thanksgiving4 ,never mind how dull you may feel while doing it2 the fact of your feeling excited proves nothing2 the fact of your doing it proves that your will1 your spiritual part1 is on ,god's side1 however tired or careless the poor flesh may be4 ,the flesh must be brought into harmony with the spirit1 not only by physical but by intellectual mortification4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdc4 ,training of ,beauty4 ,august #be4 ,there is many a road into our hearts besides our ears and brains2 many a sight and sound and scent even1 of which we have never thought at all1 sinks into our memory and helps to shape our characters2 and thus children brought up among beautiful sights and sweet sounds will most likely show the fruits of their nursing by thoughtfulness and affection and nobleness of mind1 even by the expression of the countenance4 ,true ,words to ,brave ,men4 #ahdh4 ,ignorance of the ,cynic4 ,august #bf4 ,be sure that no one knows so little of his fellow-men as the cynical1 misanthropic man1 who walks in darkness because he hates his brother4 ,be sure that the truly wise and understanding man is he who by sympathy puts himself in his neighbours' place2 feels with them and for them2 sees with their eyes1 hears with their ears2 and therefore understands them1 makes allowances for them1 and is merciful to them1 even as his ,father in heaven is merciful4 ,westminster ,sermons4 #ahgb4 ,penitential ,prayer4 ,august #bg4 ,faith in ,god it is which has made the fifty-first ,psalm the model of all true penitence for evermore4 ,penitential prayers in all ages have too often wanted faith in ,god1 and therefore have been too often prayers to avert punishment4 ,this1 this--the model of all true penitent prayers--is that of a man who is to be punished1 and is content to take his punishment1 knowing that he deserves it1 and far more besides4 ,sermons on ,david4 #ahff4 ,a ,real ,presence4 ,august #bh4 ,believe the ,holy ,communion is the sign of ,christ's perpetual presence2 that when you kneel to receive the bread and wine1 ,christ is as near you--spiritually1 indeed1 and invisibly1 but really and truly as near you as those who are kneeling by your side4 ,and if it be so with ,christ1 then is it so with those who are ,christ's1 with those whom we love4 4 4 4 ,surely1 like ,christ1 they may come and go even now1 though unseen4 ,like ,christ they may breathe upon our restless hearts and say1 ,peace be unto you1 and not in vain4 ,for what they did for us when they were on earth they can more fully do now that they are in heaven4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahfb4 ,a ,living ,god4 ,august #bi4 ,man would never have even dreamed of a ,living ,god had not that ,living ,god been a reality1 who did not leave the creature to find his ,creator1 but stooped from heaven1 at the very beginning of our race1 to find ,his creature4 ,sermons on ,david4 #ahff4 ,thine1 not mine4 ,august #cj4 ,whensoever you do a thing which you know to be right and good1 instead of priding yourself upon it as if the good in it came from you1 offer it up to your ,heavenly ,father1 from whom all good things come1 and say1 ,oh1 ,lord6 the good in this is ,thine and not mine2 the bad in it is mine and not ,thine4 ,i thank ,thee for having made me do right1 for without ,thy help ,i should have done nothing but wrong4 ,for mine is the laziness1 and the weakness1 and the selfishness1 and the self-conceit2 and ,thine is the kingdom1 for ,thou rulest all things2 and the power1 for ,thou doest all things2 and the glory1 for ,thou doest all things well1 for ever and ever4 ,amen4 ,sermons4 ,the ,unquenchable ,fire4 ,august #ca4 ,a fire which cannot be quenched1 a worm which cannot die1 ,i see existing1 and consider them among the most blessed revelations of the gospel4 ,i fancy ,i see them burning and devouring everywhere in the spiritual world1 as their analogues do in the physical4 ,i know that they have done so on me1 and that their operation1 though exquisitely painful1 is most healthful4 ,i see the world trying to quench and kill them2 ,i know too well that ,i often do the same ineffectually4 ,but1 in the comfort that the worm cannot die and the fire cannot be quenched1 ,i look calmly forward through endless ages to my own future1 and the future of that world whereof it is written1 ,he shall reign until ,he hath put all enemies under ,his feet1 and death and hell shall be cast into the lake of fire4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,day of the ,lord will be revealed in flaming fire1 not merely to give new light and a day-spring from on high to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death1 but to burn up out of sight1 and off the universe1 the chaff1 hay1 and stubble which men have built on the ,one ,living ,foundation1 ,christ1 in that unquenchable fire1 of which it is written that ,death and ,hell shall one day be cast into it also1 to share the fate of all other unnatural and abominable things1 and ,god's universe be--what it must be some day--very good4 99 99 99 99 99 ,because ,i believe in a ,god of absolute and unbounded love1 therefore ,i believe in a loving anger of ,his1 which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed1 monstrous1 abortive1 in ,his universe1 till all enemies shall be put under ,his feet1 to be pardoned surely1 if they confess themselves in the wrong and open their eyes to the truth4 ,and ,god shall be ,all in ,all4 ,those last are wide words4 ,letters and ,sermons4 #ahef4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,august #bd4 ,st4 ,bartholomew1 ,apostle and ,martyr4 ,blessed are they who once were persecuted for righteousness' sake1 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven4 ,great indeed is their reward1 for it is no less than the very beatific vision to contemplate and adore that supreme moral beauty1 of which all earthly beauty1 all nature1 all art1 all poetry1 all music1 are but phantoms and parables1 hints and hopes1 dim reflected rays of the clear light of everlasting day4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 ,september4 ,that poet knew but little of either streams or hearts who wrote-- ,nor ever had the breeze of passion ,stirred her heart's clear depths4 ,the lonely fisher1 the lover of streams and living fountains1 knows that when the stream stops it is turbid4 ,the deep pools and still flats are always brown--always dark--the mud lies in them1 the trout sleep in them4 ,when they are clearest they are still tinged brown or gray with some foreign matter held in solution--the brown of selfish sensuality or the gray of morbid melancholy4 ,but when they are free again6 when they hurry over rock and weed and sparkling pebble-shallow1 then they are clear6 ,then all the foreign matter1 the defilement which earth pours into them1 falls to the ground1 and into them the trout work up for life and health and food2 and through their swift yet yielding eddies--moulding themselves to every accident1 yet separate and undefiled--shine up the delicate beauties of the subaqueous world1 the ,spirit-glories which we can only see in this life through the medium of another human soul1 but which we can never see unless that soul is stirred by circumstance into passion and motion and action strong and swift4 ,only the streams which have undergone long and severe struggles from their very fountain-head have clear pools4 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,goodness4 ,september #a4 ,always say to yourself this one thing1 ,good ,i will become1 whatever it cost me2 and in ,god's goodness ,i trust to make me good1 for ,i am sure ,he wishes to see me good more than ,i do myself4 ,and you will find that1 because you have confessed in that best and most honest of ways that ,god is good1 and have so given ,him real glory1 and real honour1 and real praise1 ,he will save you from the sins which torment you1 and you shall never come1 either in this world or the world to come1 to that worst misery1 the being ashamed of yourself4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,be good to do ,good4 ,september #b4 ,what we wish to do for our fellow-creatures we must do first for ourselves4 ,we can give them nothing save what ,god has already given us4 ,we must become good before we can make them good1 and wise before we can make them wise4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahfg4 ,the ,undying ,i4 ,september #c4 ,the youngest child1 by faith in ,god his ,father1 may look upon all heaven and earth and say1 ,great and wonderful and awful as this earth and those skies may be1 ,i am more precious in the sight of ,god than sun and moon and stars2 for they are things1 but ,i am a person1 a spirit1 an immortal soul1 made in the likeness of ,god1 redeemed into the likeness of ,god4 ,this great earth was here thousands and thousands of years before ,i was born1 and it will be here perhaps millions of years after ,i am dead4 ,but it cannot harm ,me1 it cannot kill ,me4 ,when earth1 and sun1 and stars have passed away ,i shall live for ever1 for ,i am the immortal child of an immortal ,father1 the child of the everlasting ,god4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,love and ,time4 ,september #d4 ,love proves its spiritual origin by rising above time and space and circumstance1 wealth and age1 and even temporary beauty1 at the same time that it alone can perfectly use all those material adjuncts4 ,being spiritual1 it is ,lord of matter1 and can give and receive from it glory and beauty when it will1 and yet live without it4 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,common ,duties4 ,september #e4 ,the only way to regenerate the world is to do the duty which lies nearest us1 and not to hunt after grand1 far-fetched ones for ourselves4 ,if each drop of rain chose where it should fall1 ,god's showers would not fall as they do now1 on the evil and the good alike4 ,i know from the experience of my own heart how galling this doctrine is--how1 like ,naaman1 one goes away in a rage1 because the prophet has not bid us do some great thing1 but only to go wash in the nearest brook and be clean4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahed4 ,despair--,hope4 ,september #f4 ,does the age seem to you dark8 ,do you feel1 as ,i do at times1 the awful sadness of that text1 ,the time shall come when you shall desire to see one of the days of the ,lord1 and shall not see it8 ,then remember that ,the night is never so long ,but at last it ringeth for matin song4 4 4 4 ,even now the dawn is gilding the highest souls1 and we are in the night only because we crawl below4 ,prose ,idylls4 #ahej4 ,the ,critical ,spirit4 ,september #g4 ,judge nothing before the time4 ,this is a hard saying4 ,who can hear it8 ,there never was a time in which the critical spirit was more thoroughly in the ascendant4 ,every man now is an independent critic4 ,to accept fully1 or as it is now called1 to follow blindly2 to admire heartily1 or as it is now called1 fanatically--these are considered signs of weakness or credulity4 ,to believe intensely2 to act unhesitatingly2 to admire passionately2 all this1 as the latest slang phrases it1 is bad form2 a proof that a man is not likely to win in the race of this world the prize whereof is1 the greatest possible enjoyment with the least possible work4 ,the ,critical ,spirit4 #ahga4 ,toil and ,rest4 ,september #h4 ,remember always1 toil is the condition of our being4 ,our sentence is to labour from the cradle to the grave4 ,but there are ,sabbaths allowed for the mind as well as the body1 when the intellect is stilled1 and the emotions alone perform their gentle and involuntary functions4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,storm and ,calm4 ,september #i4 ,then ,amyas told the last scene2 how1 when they were off the ,azores1 the storms came on heavier than ever1 with terrible seas breaking short and pyramid-wise1 till1 on the #ith of ,september1 the tiny ,squirrel nearly foundered1 and yet recovered1 and the ,general 7,sir ,humphrey ,gilbert71 sitting abaft with a book in his hand1 cried out to us in the ,hind1 ,we are as near heaven by sea as by land1 reiterating the same speech well be-seeming a soldier resolute in ,jesus ,christ1 as ,i can testify he was4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 xiii4 ,on the ,heights4 ,september #aj4 ,it is good for a man to have holy and quiet thoughts1 and at moments to see into the very deepest meaning of ,god's word and ,god's earth1 and to have1 as it were1 heaven opened before his eyes2 and it is good for a man sometimes actually to feel his heart overpowered with the glorious majesty of ,god--to feel it gushing out with love to his blessed ,saviour2 but it is not good for him to stop there any more than for the ,apostles in the ,mount of ,transfiguration4 ,village ,sermons4 #ahdi4 ,in the ,valley4 ,september #aa4 ,the disciples had to come down from the ,mount and do ,christ's work1 and so have we4 ,believe me1 one word of warning spoken to keep a little child out of sin1--one crust of bread given to a beggar-man because he is your brother1 for whom ,christ died1--one angry word checked on your lips for the sake of ,him who was meek and lowly of heart2 any the smallest endeavour to lessen the amount of evil which is in yourselves and those around you1--is worth all the speculations1 and raptures1 and visions1 and frames1 and feelings in the world2 for these are the good fruits of faith1 whereby alone the tree shall be known whether it be good or evil4 ,village ,sermons4 #ahdi4 ,self-,conceit4 ,september #ab4 ,self-conceit is the very daughter of self-will1 and of that loud crying out about ,i1 and me1 and mine1 which is the very bird-call for all devils1 and the broad road which leads to death4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 i4 ,facing ,fact4 ,september #ac4 ,it is good for a man to be brought once1 at least1 in his life1 face to face with fact1 ultimate fact1 however horrible it may be1 and to have to confess to himself shuddering1 what things are possible on ,god's earth1 when man has forgotten that his only welfare is in living after the likeness of ,god4 ,miscellanies4 #aheh4 ,the ,heroical ,rest4 ,september #ad4 ,right1 lad2 the best reward for having wrought well already is to have more to do2 and he that has been faithful over a few things must find his account in being made ruler over many things4 ,that is the true and heroical rest which only is worthy of gentlemen and sons of ,god4 ,as for those who either in this world or in the world to come look for idleness1 and hope that ,god will feed them with pleasant things1 as it were with a spoon1 ,amyas1 ,i count them cowards and base1 even though they call themselves saints and elect4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 vii4 #ahee4 ,body and ,soul4 ,september #ae4 ,remember that ,st4 ,paul always couples with the resurrection and ascension of our bodies in the next life the resurrection and ascension of our souls in this life1 for without that1 the resurrection of our bodies would be but a resurrection to fresh sin1 and therefore to fresh misery and ruin4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahgj4 ,love in ,absence4 ,september #af4 ,absence quickens love into consciousness4 ,,ms4 ,the baby sings not on its mother's breast2 ,nor nightingales who nestle side by side2 ,nor ,i by thine3 but let us only part1 ,then lips which should but kiss1 and so be still1 ,as having uttered all1 must speak again4 ,sonnet4 #ahea4 ,special ,providence4 ,september #ag4 ,if ,i did not believe in a special ,providence1 in a perpetual education of men by evil as well as good1 by small things as well as great1 ,i could believe nothing4 ,letters and ,memories4 ,love of ,work4 ,september #ah4 ,can you tell me1 my pastor1 what part of ,god's likeness clings to a man longest and closest and best8 ,no8 ,then ,i will tell you4 ,it is the love of employment4 ,god in heaven must create ,himself a universe to work on and love4 ,and now we sons of ,adam1 the sons of ,god1 cannot rest without our mundus peculiaris of some sort--our world subjective1 as ,doctor ,musophilus has it4 ,but we can create too1 and make our little sphere look as large as a universe4 ,,ms4 ,novel4 #ahdd4 ,fret not4 ,september #ai4 ,fret not1 neither be anxious4 ,what ,god intends to do ,he will do4 ,and what we ask believing we shall receive4 ,never let us get into the common trick of calling unbelief resignation1 of asking and then1 because we have not faith to believe1 putting in a ,thy will be done at the end4 ,let us make ,god's will our will1 and so say ,thy will be done4 ,,ms4 #ahdc4 ,peace6 ,why these fears8 ,life is too short for mean anxieties3 ,soul6 thou must work1 though blindfold4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act ii4 ,scene x4 ,battle before ,victory4 ,september #bj4 ,whenever you think of our ,lord's resurrection and ascension1 remember always that the background of ,his triumph is a tomb4 ,remember that it is the triumph over suffering2 a triumph of ,one who still bears the prints of the nails in ,his sacred hands and feet1 and the wound of the spear in ,his side2 like many a poor soul who has followed ,him1 triumphant at last1 and yet scarred1 and only not maimed in the hard battle of life4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahgj4 ,night and ,growth4 ,september #ba4 ,as in the world of ,nature1 so it is in the world of men4 ,the night is peopled not merely with phantoms and superstitions and spirits of evil1 but under its shadow all sciences1 methods1 social energies1 are taking rest1 and growing1 and feeding1 unknown to themselves4 ,prose ,idylls4 #ahej4 ,passion4 ,september #bb4 ,self-sacrifice6 ,what is love worth that does not show itself in action8 and more1 which does not show itself in passion in the true sense of that word3 namely1 in suffering8 in daring1 in struggling1 in grieving1 in agonising1 and1 if need be1 in dying for the object of its love8 ,every mother will give but one answer to that question4 ,westminster ,sermons4 #ahgj4 ,worth of ,beauty4 ,september #bc4 ,it is a righteous instinct which bids us welcome and honour beauty1 whether in man or woman1 as something of real worth--divine1 heavenly1 ay1 though we know not how1 in a most deep sense ,eternal2 which makes our reason give the lie to all merely logical and sentimental maunderings of moralists about the fleeting hues of this our painted clay2 and tell men1 as the old ,hebrew ,scriptures told them1 that physical beauty is the deepest of all spiritual symbols2 and that though beauty without discretion be the jewel of gold in the swine's snout1 yet the jewel of gold it is still1 the sacrament of an inward beauty1 which ought to be1 perhaps hereafter may be1 fulfilled in spirit and in truth4 ,hypatia1 chap4 xxvi4 #aheb4 ,empty ,profession4 ,september #bd4 ,what is the sin which most destroys all men and nations8 ,high religious profession1 with an ungodly1 selfish life4 ,it is the worst and most dangerous of all sins2 for it is like a disease which eats out the heart and life without giving pain1 so that the sick man never suspects that anything is the matter with him till he finds himself1 to his astonishment1 at the point of death4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahea4 ,true ,poetry4 ,september #be4 ,let us make life one poem--not of dreams or sentiments--but of actions1 not done ,byronically as proofs of genius1 but for our own self-education1 alone1 in secret1 awaiting the crisis which shall call us forth to the battle to do just what other people do1 only1 perhaps1 by an utterly different self-education4 ,that is the life of great spirits1 after1 perhaps1 many many years of seclusion1 of silent training in the lower paths of ,god's vineyard1 till their hearts have settled into a still1 deep1 yet swift current1 and those who have been faithful over a few things are made rulers over many things4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,office of the ,clergy4 ,september #bf4 ,there is a ,christian as well as political liberty quite consistent with ,high ,church principles1 which makes the clergy our teachers--not the keepers of our consciences but of our creeds4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,opinions are not ,knowledge4 ,september #bg4 4 4 4 ,as to self-improvement1 the true ,catholic mode of learning is to prove all things1 as far as we can1 without sin or the danger of it1 to hold fast that which is good4 ,let us never be afraid of trying anything new1 learnt from people of different opinions to our own4 ,and let us never be afraid of changing our opinions4 ,the unwillingness to go back from once declared opinion is a form of pride which haunts some powerful minds3 but it is not found in great childlike geniuses4 ,fools may hold fast to their scanty stock through life1 and we must be very cautious in drawing them from it--for where can they supply its place8 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdc4 ,the ,worst ,punishment4 ,september #bh4 ,god reserves many a sinner for that most awful of all punishments 7here7--impunity4 ,sermons4 ,the ,divine ,order4 ,september #bi4 ,ah1 that ,god's will were but done on earth as it is in the material heaven overhead1 in perfect order and obedience1 as the stars roll in their courses1 without rest1 yet without haste--as all created things1 even the most awful1 fire and hail1 snow and vapour1 wind and storm1 fulfil ,god's word1 who hath made them sure for ever and ever1 and given them a law which shall not be broken4 ,but above them2 above the divine and wonderful order of the material universe1 and the winds which are ,god's angels1 and the flames of fire which are ,his messengers2 above all1 the prophets and apostles have caught sight of another divine and wonderful order of rational beings1 of races loftier and purer than man--angels and archangels1 thrones and dominions1 principalities and powers1 fulfilling ,god's will in heaven as it is not1 alas6 fulfilled on earth4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahfg4 ,true ,resignation4 ,september #cj4 4 4 4 ,christianity heightens as well as deepens the human as well as the divine affections4 ,i am happy1 for the less hope1 the more faith4 4 4 4 ,god knows what is best for us2 we do not4 ,continual resignation1 at last ,i begin to find1 is the secret of continual strength4 ,daily dying1 as ,boehmen interprets it1 is the path of daily living4 4 4 4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdc4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,september #ba4 ,st4 ,matthew1 ,apostle1 ,evangelist1 and ,martyr4 ,there is something higher than happiness4 ,there is blessedness2 the blessedness of being good and doing good1 of being right and doing right4 ,that blessedness we may have at all times2 we may be blest even in anxiety and in sadness2 we may be blest1 even as the martyrs of old were blest1 in agony and death4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 ,,september #bi4 ,feast of ,st4 ,michael and ,all ,angels4 ,the eternal moral law which held good for the sinless ,christ1 who1 though ,he were a ,son1 yet learned obedience by the things which ,he suffered1 must hold good of you and me1 and all moral and rational beings--yea1 for the very angels in heaven4 ,they have not sinned4 ,that we know2 and we do not know that they have ever suffered4 ,but this at least we know1 that they have submitted4 ,they have obeyed1 and have given up their own wills to be ministers of ,god's will4 ,in them is neither self-will nor selfishness2 and1 therefore1 by faith1 that is1 by trust and loyalty1 they stand4 ,and so1 by consenting to lose their individual life of selfishness1 they have saved their eternal life in ,god1 the life of blessedness and holiness1 just as all evil spirits have lost their eternal life by trying to save their selfish life and be something in themselves and of themselves without respect to ,god4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 ,october4 ,a beautiful ,october morning it was2 one of those in which ,dame ,nature1 healthily tired with the revelry of summer1 is composing herself1 with a quiet satisfied smile1 for her winter's sleep4 ,sheets of dappled cloud were sliding slowly from the west2 long bars of hazy blue hung over the southern chalk downs1 which gleamed pearly gray beneath the low south- eastern sun4 ,in the vale below1 soft white flakes of mist still hung over the water meadows1 and barred the dark trunks of the huge elms and poplars1 whose fast-yellowing leaves came showering down at every rustle of the western breeze1 spotting the grass below4 ,the river swirled along1 glassy no more1 but dingy gray with autumn rains and rotting leaves4 ,all beyond the garden told of autumn1 bright and peaceful even in decay2 but up the sunny slope of the garden itself1 and to the very window-sill1 summer still lingered4 ,the beds of red verbena and geranium were still brilliant1 though choked with fallen leaves of acacia and plane2 the canary plant1 still untouched by frost1 twined its delicate green leaves1 and more delicate yellow blossoms1 through the crimson lace- work of the ,virginia creeper2 and the great yellow noisette swung its long canes across the window1 filling all the air with fruity fragrance4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 i4 ,blessing of ,daily ,work4 ,october #a4 ,thank ,god every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not4 ,being forced to work1 and forced to do your best1 will breed in you temperance and self- control1 diligence and strength of will1 cheerfulness and content1 and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know4 ,town and ,country ,sermons4 #ahfa4 ,the ,forming ,form4 ,october #b4 ,as the acorn1 because ,god has given it a forming form1 and life after its kind1 bears within it not only the builder oak but shade for many a herd1 food for countless animals1 and at last the gallant ship itself1 and the materials of every use to which ,nature or ,art can put it1 and its descendants after it1 throughout all time1 so does every good deed contain within itself endless and unexpected possibilities of other good1 which may and will grow and multiply for ever1 in the genial light of ,him whose eternal mind conceived it1 and whose eternal spirit will for ever quicken it1 with that life of which ,he is the ,giver and the ,lord4 ,preface to ,tauler's ,sermons4 #ahed4 ,special ,providences4 ,october #c4 ,and as for special ,providences4 ,i believe that every step ,i take1 every person ,i meet1 every thought which comes into my mind--which is not sinful--comes and happens by the perpetual ,providence of ,god watching for ever with ,fatherly care over me1 and each separate thing that ,he has made4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 ,virtue4 ,october #d4 ,nothing1 nothing can be a substitute for purity and virtue4 ,man will always try to find substitutes for it4 ,he will try to find a substitute in superstition1 in forms and ceremonies1 in voluntary humility and worship of angels1 in using vain repetitions1 and fancying he will be heard for his much speaking2 he will try to find a substitute in intellect1 and the worship of intellect and art and poetry1 4 4 4 but let no man lay that flattering unction to his soul4 ,sermons on ,david4 #ahff4 ,god-likeness4 ,october #e4 ,we can become like ,god--only in proportion as we are of use1 said ---4 ,i did not see this once4 ,i tried to be good1 not knowing what good meant4 ,i tried to be good1 because ,i thought it would pay me in the world to come4 ,but at last ,i saw that all life1 all devotion1 all piety1 were only worth anything1 only ,divine1 and ,god-like and ,god-beloved1 as they were means to that one end--to be of use4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xix4 #ahef4 ,the ,refiner's ,fire4 ,october #f4 ,not quite that1 said ,amyas4 ,he was a meeker man latterly than he used to be4 ,as he said himself once1 a better refiner than any whom he had on board had followed him close all the seas over1 and purified him in the fire4 ,and gold seven times tried he was when ,god1 having done ,his work in him1 took him home at last4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 xiii4 ,the ,prayer of ,faith4 ,october #g4 ,with the prayer of faith we can do anything4 ,look at ,mark xi4 #bd--;a text that has saved more than one soul from madness in the hour of sorrow2 and it is so simple and wide--wide as eternity1 simple as light1 true as ,god ,himself4 ,if we are to do great things it must be in the spirit of that text4 ,verily1 when the ,son of ,god cometh shall ,he find faith in the earth8 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdc4 ,mountain-,ranges4 ,october #h4 ,we fancy there are many independent sciences1 because we stand half-way up on different mountain-peaks1 calling to each other from isolated stations4 ,the mists hide from us the foot of the range beneath us1 the depths of primary analysis to which none can reach1 or we should see that all the peaks were but offsets of one vast mountain-base1 and in their inmost root but ,one6 ,and the clouds which float between us and the heaven shroud from us the sun-lighted caps themselves--the perfect issues of synthetic science1 on which the ,sun of ,righteousness shines with undimmed lustre--and keep us from perceiving that the complete practical details of our applied knowledge is all holy and radiant with ,god's smile4 ,and so1 half-way up1 on the hillside1 beneath a cloudy sky1 we build up little earthy hill-cairns of our own petty synthesis1 and fancy them ,babel-towers whose top shall reach to heaven6 ,,ms4 ,note-book4 #ahdc4 ,the ,temper for ,success in ,life4 ,october #i4 ,the men whom ,i have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men1 who went about their business with a smile on their faces1 and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men1 facing rough and smooth alike as it came1 and so found the truth of the old proverb that good times and bad times and all times pass over4 ,,ms4 ,want of ,simplicity4 ,october #aj4 ,faith and prayer are simple things1 4 4 4 but when we begin to want faith1 and to assist prayer by our own inventions and to explain away ,god's providence1 then faith and prayer become intricate and uncertain4 ,we cannot serve ,god and mammon4 ,we must either utterly depend on ,god 7and therefore on our own reason enlightened by ,his spirit after prayer71 or we must utterly depend on the empirical maxims of the world4 ,choose6 ,,ms4 ,letter4 ,true ,rest4 ,october #aa4 ,what is true rest8 ,to rest from sin1 from sorrow1 from doubt1 from care2 this is true rest4 ,above all1 to rest from the worst weariness of all--knowing one's duty and not being able to do it4 ,that is true rest2 the rest of ,god who works for ever1 and yet is at rest for ever2 as the stars over our heads move for ever1 thousands of miles a day1 and yet are at perfect rest1 because they move orderly1 harmoniously1 fulfilling the law which ,god has given them4 ,perfect rest in perfect work2 that surely is the rest of blessed spirits till the final consummation of all things4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahfg4 ,god's ,image4 ,october #ab4 4 4 4 ,honour all men4 ,every man should be honoured as ,god's image1 in the sense in which ,novalis says--that we touch ,heaven when we lay our hand on a human body6 4 4 4 ,the old ,homeric ,greeks1 ,i think1 felt that1 and acted up to it1 more than any nation4 ,the ,patriarchs too seem to have had the same feeling4 4 4 4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdc4 ,woman's ,work4 ,october #ac4 ,let woman never be persuaded to forget that her calling is not the lower and more earthly one of self-assertion1 but the higher and diviner one of self-sacrifice2 and let her never desert that higher life which lives in and for others1 like her ,redeemer and her ,lord4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,self-,enjoyment4 ,october #ad4 ,how do ye expect1 said ,sandy1 ever to be happy1 or strong1 or a man at a'1 as long as ye go on only looking to enjoy yersel--yersel8 ,mony was the year ,i looked for nought but my ain pleasure1 and got it too1 when it was a' ',sandy ,mackaye1 bonny ,sandy ,mackaye1 ,there he sits singing the lang simmer day2 ,lassies gae to him1 ,and kiss him1 and woo him-- ,na bird is so merry as ,sandy ,mackaye4' ,an' muckle good cam' o't4 ,ye may fancy ,i'm talking like a sour1 disappointed auld carle4 ,but ,i tell ye nay4 ,i've got that's worth living for1 though ,i am downhearted at times1 and fancy a's wrong1 and there's na hope for us on earth1 we be a' sic liars--a' liars1 ,i think--,i'm a great liar often mysel1 especially when ,i'm praying4 ,alton ,locke1 chap4 vii4 ,temptations of ,temperament4 ,october #ae4 ,a man of intense sensibilities1 and therefore capable1 as is but too notorious1 of great crimes as well as of great virtues4 ,sermons on ,david4 ,the more delicate and graceful the organisation1 the more noble and earnest the nature1 the more certain it is1 ,i fear1 if neglected1 to go astray4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,egotism of ,melancholy4 ,october #af4 ,morbid melancholy results from subjectivity of mind4 ,the self-contemplating mind1 if it be a conscientious and feeling one1 must be dissatisfied with what it sees within4 ,then it begins unconsciously to flatter itself with the idea that it is not the moi but the non moi1 the world around1 which is evil4 ,hence comes ,manichaeism1 ,asceticism1 and that morbid tone of mind which is so accustomed to look for sorrow that it finds it even in joy--because it will not confess to itself that sorrow belongs to sin1 and that sin belongs to self2 and therefore it vents its dissatisfaction on ,god's earth1 and not on itself in repentance and humiliation4 ,the world looks dark4 ,shall we therefore be dark too8 ,is it not our business to bring it back to light and joy8 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdc4 ,poetry of ,doubt4 ,october #ag4 ,the poetry of doubt of these days1 however pretty1 would stand us in little stead if we were threatened by a second ,armada4 ,miscellanies4 #ahei4 ,work of the ,physician4 ,october #ah4 ,the question which is forcing itself more and more on the minds of scientific men is not how many diseases are1 but how few are not1 the consequences of men's ignorance1 barbarism1 folly1 self-indulgence4 ,the medical man is felt more and more to be necessary in health as he is in sickness1 to be the fellow-workman not merely of the clergyman1 but of the social reformer1 the political economist1 and the statesman2 and the first object of his science to be prevention1 and not cure4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahea4 ,love ,many-sided4 ,october #ai4 ,there are many sides to love--admiration1 reverence1 gratitude1 pity1 affection2 they are all different shapes of that one great spirit of love--the only feeling which will bind a man to do good1 not once in a way but habitually4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahea4 ,the only ,path to ,light4 ,october #bj4 ,the path by which some come to see the ,light1 to find the ,rock of ,ages1 is the simple path of honest self-knowledge1 self-renunciation1 self-restraint1 in which every upward step towards right exposes some fresh depth of inward sinfulness1 till the once proud man1 crushed down by the sense of his own infinite meanness1 becomes a little child once more1 and casts himself simply on the generosity of ,him who made him4 ,and then there may come to him the vision1 dim1 perhaps1 and fitting ill into clumsy words1 but clearer1 surer1 nearer to him than the ground on which he treads1 or than the foot which treads it--the vision of an ,everlasting ,spiritual ,substance1 most ,human and yet most ,divine1 who can endure2 and who1 standing beneath all things1 can make their spiritual substance endure likewise1 though all worlds and eons1 birth and growth and death1 matter and space and time1 should melt indeed-- ,and like the baseless fabric of a vision1 ,leave not a rack behind4 ,preface to ,tauler's ,sermons4 #ahed4 ,proverbs ,false and ,true4 ,october #ba4 ,there is no falser proverb than that devil's beatitude1 ,blessed is he who expecteth nothing1 for he shall never be disappointed4 ,say rather1 ,blessed is he who expecteth everything1 for he enjoys everything once at least1 and if it falls out true1 twice also4 ,prose ,idylls4 #aheg4 ,true ,sisters of ,mercy4 ,october #bb4 ,ah6 true ,sisters of ,mercy6 whom the world sneers at as old maids1 if you pour out on cats and dogs and parrots a little of the love that is yearning to spend itself on children of your own4 ,as long as such as you walk this lower world one needs no ,butler's ,analogy to prove to us that there is another world1 where such as you will have a fuller and a fairer 7,i dare not say a juster7 portion4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xxv4 #ahef4 ,the ,divine ,fire4 ,october #bc4 ,well spoke the old monks1 peaceful1 watching life's turmoil1 ,eyes which look heavenward1 weeping still we see3 ,god's love with keen flame purges1 like the lightning flash1 ,gold which is purest1 purer still must be4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act iii4 ,scene i4 #ahdg4 ,the ,cross a ,token4 ,october #bd4 ,have patience1 have faith1 have hope1 as thou standest at the foot of ,christ's ,cross1 and holdest fast to it1 the anchor of the soul and reason1 as well as of the heart4 ,for1 however ill the world may go1 or seem to go1 the ,cross is the everlasting token that ,god so loved the world that ,he spared not ,his only-begotten ,son1 but freely gave ,him for it4 ,whatsoever else is doubtful1 that at least is sure--that good must conquer1 because ,god is good1 that evil must perish1 because ,god hates evil1 even to the death4 ,westminster ,sermons4 #ahgj4 ,the ,true ,self-,sacrifice4 ,october #be4 ,what can a man do more than die for his countrymen8 ,live for them4 ,it is a longer work1 and therefore a more difficult and a nobler one4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xix4 #ahef4 ,now as ,then4 ,october #bf4 ,men can be as original now as ever1 if they had but the courage1 even the insight4 ,heroic souls in old times had no more opportunities than we have2 but they used them4 ,there were daring deeds to be done then--are there none now8 ,sacrifices to be made--are there none now8 ,wrongs to be redrest--are there none now8 ,let any one set his heart in these days to do what is right1 and nothing else2 and it will not be long ere his brow is stamped with all that goes to make up the heroical expression--with noble indignation1 noble self-restraint1 great hopes1 great sorrows2 perhaps even with the print of the martyr's crown of thorns4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 vii4 #ahef4 ,one ,anchor4 ,october #bg4 ,in such a world as this1 with such ugly possibilities hanging over us all1 there is but one anchor which will hold1 and that is utter trust in ,god2 let us keep that1 and we may yet get to our graves without misery though not without sorrow4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahga4 ,self-,control4 ,october #bh4 ,settle it in your minds1 young people1 that the first and the last of all virtues and graces which ,god can give is ,self-,control1 as necessary for the saint and the sage lest they become fanatics and pedants1 as for the young in the hey-day of youth and health4 ,sermons on ,david4 #ahff4 ,nature's ,permanence4 ,october #bi4 ,we abolish many things1 good and evil1 wisely and foolishly1 in these fast-going times2 but1 happily for us1 we cannot abolish the blue sky1 and the green sea1 and the white foam1 and the everlasting hills1 and the rivers which flow out of their bosoms4 ,they will abolish themselves when their work is done1 but not before4 ,and we1 who1 with all our boasted scientific mastery over ,nature1 are1 from a merely mechanical and carnal point of view1 no more than a race of minute parasitic animals burrowing in the fair ,earth's skin1 had better1 instead of boasting of our empire over ,nature1 take care lest we become too troublesome to ,nature1 by creating1 in our haste and greed1 too many great black countries1 and too many great dirty warrens of houses1 miscalled cities1 peopled with savages and imps of our own mis-creation2 in which case ,nature1 so far from allowing us to abolish her1 will by her inexorable laws abolish us4 ,,ms4 ,presidential ,address4 #ahga4 ,the ,only ,refuge4 ,october #cj4 ,prayer is the only refuge against the ,walpurgis-dance of the witches and the fiends1 which at hapless moments whirl unbidden through a mortal brain4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xix4 #ahef4 ,england's ,forgotten ,worthies4 ,october #ca4 ,among the higher-hearted of the early voyagers1 the grandeur and glory around them had attuned their spirits to itself and kept them in a lofty1 heroical1 reverent frame of mind2 while they knew as little about what they saw in an artistic or critical point of view as in a scientific one4 4 4 4 ,they gave ,god thanks and were not astonished4 ,god was great3 but that they had discovered long before they came into the tropics4 ,noble old child-hearted heroes1 with just romance and superstition enough about them to keep from that prurient hysterical wonder and enthusiasm which is simply1 one often fears1 a product of our scepticism6 ,we do not trust enough in ,god1 we do not really believe ,his power enough1 to be ready1 as they were1 as every one ought to be on a ,god-made earth1 for anything and everything being possible2 and then when a wonder is discovered we go into ecstasies and shrieks over it1 and take to ourselves credit for being susceptible of so lofty a feeling--true index1 forsooth1 of a refined and cultivated mind66 ,smile if you will3 but those were days 7and there never were less superstitious ones7 in which ,englishmen believed in the living ,god1 and were not ashamed to acknowledge1 as a matter of course1 ,his help1 and providence1 and calling1 in the matters of daily life1 which we now1 in our covert atheism1 term secular and carnal4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 xxiii4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,october #ah4 ,st4 ,luke1 ,physician and ,evangelist4 ,it is good to follow ,christ in one thing and to follow ,him utterly in that4 ,and the physician has set his mind to do one thing--to hate calmly1 but with an internecine hatred1 disease and death1 and to fight against them to the end4 ,in his exclusive care for the body the physician witnesses unconsciously yet mightily for the soul1 for ,god1 for the ,bible1 for immortality4 ,is he not witnessing for ,god when he shows by his acts that he believes ,god to be a ,god of life1 not of death2 of health1 not of disease2 of order1 not of disorder2 of joy and strength1 not of misery and weakness8 ,is he not witnessing for ,christ when1 like ,christ1 he heals all manner of sickness and disease among the people1 and attacks physical evil as the natural foe of man and of the ,creator of man8 ,water of ,life1 and other ,sermons4 ,,october #bh4 ,st4 ,simon and ,st4 ,jude1 ,apostles and ,martyrs4 ,he that loseth his life shall save it4 ,the end and aim of our life is not happiness but goodness4 ,if goodness comes first1 then happiness may come after2 but if not1 something better than happiness may come1 even blessedness4 ,oh6 sad hearts and suffering6 look to the ,cross4 ,there hung your ,king6 ,the ,king of sorrowing souls2 and more1 the ,king of ,sorrows4 ,ay1 pain and grief1 tyranny and desertion1 death and hell1--,he has faced them one and all1 and tried their strength and taught them ,his1 and conquered them right royally4 ,and since ,he hung upon that torturing ,cross sorrow is divine1--godlike1 as joy itself4 ,all that man's fallen nature dreads and despises ,god honoured on the ,cross1 and took unto ,himself1 and blest and consecrated for ever4 4 4 4 ,and now--,blessed are tears and shame1 blessed are agony and pain2 blessed is death1 and blest the unknown realms where souls await the ,resurrection-day4 ,national ,sermons4 ,november4 ,the giant trees are black and still1 the tearful sky is dreary gray4 ,all ,nature is like the grief of manhood in its soft and thoughtful sternness4 ,shall ,i lend myself to its influence1 and as the heaven settles down into one misty shroud of 'shrill yet silent tears1' as if veiling her shame in a cloudy mantle1 shall ,i1 too1 lie down and weep8 ,why not8 for am ,i not 'a part of all ,i see'8 ,and even now1 in fasting and mortification1 am ,i not sorrowing for my sin and for its dreary chastisement8 ,but shall ,i then despond and die8 ,no6 ,mother ,earth1 for then ,i were unworthy of thee and thy ,god6 ,we may weep1 ,mother ,earth1 but we have ,faith--faith which tells us that above the cloudy sky the bright clear sun is shining1 and will shine4 ,and we have ,hope1 ,mother ,earth--hope1 that as bright days have been1 so bright days soon shall be once more6 ,and we have ,charity1 ,mother ,earth1 and by it we can love all tender things--ay1 and all rugged rocks and dreary moors1 for the sake of the glow which has gilded them1 and the fertility which will spring even from their sorrow4 ,we will smile through our tears1 ,mother ,earth1 for we are not forsaken6 ,we have still light and heat1 and till we can bear the sunshine we will glory in the shade6 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 ,sympathy of the ,dead4 ,november #a4 ,believe that those who are gone are nearer us than ever2 and that if 7as ,i surely believe7 they do sorrow over the mishaps and misdeeds of those whom they leave behind1 they do not sorrow in vain4 ,their sympathy is a further education for them1 and a pledge1 too1 of help--,i believe of final deliverance--for those on whom they look down in love4 ,letters and ,memories4 #aheb4 ,nature's ,parable4 ,november #b4 ,there is a devil's meaning to everything in nature1 and a ,god's meaning too4 ,as ,i read nature's parable to-night ,i find nothing in it but hope4 ,what if there be darkness1 the sun will rise to-morrow2 what if there seem chaos1 the great organic world is still living and growing and feeding1 unseen by us all the night through2 and every phosphoric atom there below is a sign that in the darkest night there is still the power of light1 ready to flash out wherever and however it is stirred4 ,prose ,idylls4 #ahdi4 ,passing ,onward4 ,november #c4 ,liturgies are but temporary expressions of the ,church's heart4 ,the ,bible is the immutable story of her husband's love4 ,she must go on from grace to grace1 and her song must vary from age to age1 and her ancient melodies become unfitted to express her feelings2 but ,he is the same for ever4 ,,ms4 #ahdb4 ,see how the autumn leaves float by decaying1 ,down the wild swirls of the dark-brimming stream2 ,so fleet the works of men back to their earth again-- ,ancient and holy things pass like a dream4 ,a ,parable4 #ahdh4 ,the ,divine ,intention4 ,november #d4 ,i am superstitious enough1 thank ,god1 to believe that not a stone or a handful of mud gravitates into its place without the will of ,god2 that it was ordained1 ages since1 into what particular spot each grain of gold should be washed down from an ,australian quartz reef1 that a certain man might find it at a certain moment and crisis of his life4 ,science ,lectures4 ,christ ,weeping over ,jerusalem4 ,november #e4 ,that which is true of nations is true of individuals1 of each separate human brother of the ,son of man4 ,is there one young life ruined by its own folly--one young heart broken by its own wilfulness--or one older life fast losing the finer instincts1 the nobler aims of youth1 in the restlessness of covetousness1 of fashion1 of ambition8 ,is there one such poor soul over whom ,christ does not grieve8 ,one to whom1 at some supreme crisis of their lives1 ,he does not whisper--,ah1 beautiful organism--thou too art a thought of ,god--thou too1 if thou wert but in harmony with thyself and ,god1 a microcosmic ,city of ,god6 ,ah6 that thou hadst known--even thou--at least in this thy day--the things which belong to thy peace8 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 #ahgd4 ,love ,expansive4 ,november #f4 ,the mystics think it wrong to love any created thing1 because our whole love should be given to ,god4 ,but as flame increases by being applied to many objects1 so does love4 ,he who loves ,god most loves ,god's creatures most1 and them for ,god's sake1 and ,god for their sake4 ,,ms4 ,note-book4 #ahdc4 ,still the same4 ,november #g4 ,those who die in the fear of ,god and in the faith of ,christ do not really taste death2 to them there is no death1 but only a change of place1 a change of state2 they pass at once into some new life1 with all their powers1 all their feelings1 unchanged2 still the same living1 thinking1 active beings which they were here on earth4 ,i say active4 ,rest they may1 rest they will1 if they need rest4 ,but what is true rest8 ,not idleness1 but peace of mind4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 #ahfb4 ,an absolutely ,good ,god4 ,november #h4 ,fix in your minds--or rather ask ,god to fix in your minds--this one idea of an absolutely good ,god2 good with all forms of goodness which you respect and love in man2 good1 as you1 and ,i1 and every honest man1 understand the plain word good4 ,slowly you will acquire that grand and all-illuminating idea2 slowly and most imperfectly at best3 for who is mortal man that he should conceive and comprehend the goodness of the infinitely good ,god6 ,but see1 then1 whether1 in the light of that one idea1 all the old-fashioned ,christian ideas about the relation of ,god to man--whether ,providence1 ,prayer1 ,inspiration1 ,revelation1 the ,incarnation1 the ,passion1 and the final triumph of the ,son of ,god--do not seem to you1 not merely beautiful1 not merely probable1 but rational1 and logical1 and necessary1 moral consequences from the one idea of an ,absolute and ,eternal ,goodness1 the ,living ,parent of the universe8 ,westminster ,sermons4 #ahgc4 ,nature's ,lesson4 ,november #i4 ,learn what feelings every object in ,nature expresses1 but do not let them mould the tone of your mind2 else1 by allowing a melancholy day to make you melancholy1 you worship the creature more than the ,creator4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,morals and ,mind4 ,november #aj4 ,not upon mind1 not upon mind1 but upon morals1 is human welfare founded4 ,the true subjective history of man is not the history of his thought1 but of his conscience3 the true objective history of man is not that of his inventions1 but of his vices and his virtues4 ,so far from morals depending upon thought1 thought1 ,i believe1 depends on morals4 ,in proportion as a nation is righteous--in proportion as common justice is done between man and man1 will thought grow rapidly1 securely1 triumphantly2 will its discoveries be cheerfully accepted and faithfully obeyed1 to the welfare of the whole common weal4 ,inaugural ,lecture1 ,cambridge4 #ahfj4 ,fastidiousness4 ,november #aa4 ,do not let us provoke ,god 7though that is really impossible7 by complaining of ,his gifts because they do not come just in the form we should have wished4 4 4 4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdd4 ,unconscious ,faith4 ,november #ab4 ,for the rest1 ,amyas never thought about thinking or felt about feeling2 and had no ambition whatsoever beyond pleasing his father and mother1 getting by honest means the maximum of red quarrenders and mazard cherries1 and going to sea when he was big enough4 ,neither was he what would be nowadays called by many a pious child1 for though he said his ,creed and ,lord's ,prayer night and morning1 and went to service at the church every forenoon1 and read the day's ,psalms with his mother every evening1 and had learnt from her and his father that it was infinitely noble to do right and infinitely base to do wrong1 yet he knew nothing more of theology or of his own soul than is contained in the ,church ,catechism4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 i4 #ahee4 ,silence4 ,november #ac4 ,there are silences more pathetic than all words4 ,,ms4 ,the ,nineteenth ,century4 ,november #ad4 4 4 4 ,what so maddening as the new motion of our age--the rush of the express train1 when the live iron pants and leaps and roars through the long chalk cutting1 and white mounds gleam cold a moment against the sky and vanish2 and rocks and grass and bushes fleet by in dim blended lines2 and the long hedges revolve like the spokes of a gigantic wheel2 and far below meadows and streams and homesteads1 with all their lazy old-world life1 open for an instant1 and then flee away2 while awestruck1 silent1 choked with the mingled sense of pride and helplessness1 we are swept on by that great pulse of ,england's life-blood rushing down her iron veins2 and dimly out of the future looms the fulfilment of our primeval mission to conquer and subdue the earth1 and space too1 and time1 and all things--even hardest of all tasks1 yourselves1 my cunning brothers2 ever learning some fresh lesson1 except the hardest one of all1 that it is the ,spirit of ,god which giveth you understanding8 ,yes1 great railroads1 and great railroad age1 who would exchange you1 with all your sins1 for any other time8 ,for swiftly as rushes matter1 more swiftly rushes mind2 more swiftly still rushes the heavenly dawn up the eastern sky4 ,the night is far spent1 the day is at hand4 ,blessed is the servant whom his ,lord1 when ,he cometh1 shall find watching4 ,prose ,idylls4 ,unreality4 ,november #ae4 ,those who have had no real sorrows can afford to play with imaginary ones4 ,,ms4 ,the indwelling ,light4 ,november #af4 ,the doctrine of ,christ in every man1 as the indwelling ,word of ,god1 the ,light who lights every one who comes into the world1 is no peculiar tenet of the ,quakers1 but one which runs through the whole of the ,old and ,new ,testaments1 and without which they would both be unintelligible1 just as the same doctrine runs through the whole history of the ,early ,church for the first two centuries1 and is the only explanation of them4 ,theologica ,germanica4 #ahed4 ,woman's ,calling4 ,november #ag4 ,what surely is a woman's calling but to teach man8 and to teach him what8 ,to temper his fiercer1 coarser1 more self-assertive nature by the contact of her gentleness1 purity1 self-sacrifice4 ,to make him see that not by blare of trumpets1 not by noise1 wrath1 greed1 ambition1 intrigue1 puffery1 is good and lasting work to be done on earth2 but by wise self- distrust1 by silent labour1 by lofty self-control1 by that charity which hopeth all things1 believeth all things1 endureth all things2 by such an example1 in short1 as women now in tens of thousands set to those around them2 such as they will show more and more1 the more their whole womanhood is educated to employ its powers without waste and without haste in harmonious unity4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,waste4 ,november #ah4 ,thrift of the heart1 thrift of the emotions--how are they wasted in these days in reading sensation novels6 while ,british literature--all that the best hearts and intellects among our forefathers have bequeathed to us--is neglected for light fiction1 the reading of which is the worst form of intemperance--dram-drinking and opium-eating1 intellectual and moral4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 ,true ,penance4 ,november #ai4 ,senor1 said ,brimblecombe1 the best way to punish oneself for doing ill seems to me to go and do good2 and the best way to find out whether ,god means you well is to find out whether ,he will help you to do well4 ,westward ,ho6 chap4 xxv4 ,political ,economy of the ,future4 ,november #bj4 ,i can conceive a time when1 by improved chemical science1 every foul vapour which now escapes from the chimney of a manufactory1 polluting the air1 destroying the vegetation1 shall be seized1 utilised1 converted into some profitable substance1 till the black country shall be black no longer1 the streams once more crystal clear1 the trees once more luxuriant1 and the desert1 which man has created in his haste and greed1 shall in literal fact once more blossom as the rose4 ,and just so can ,i conceive a time when by a higher civilisation1 formed on a political economy more truly scientific1 because more truly according to the will of ,god1 our human refuse shall be utilised like our material refuse2 when man as man1 down to the weakest and most ignorant1 shall be found 7as he really is7 so valuable that it will be worth while to preserve his health1 to develop his capabilities1 to save him alive1 body1 intellect1 and character1 at any cost2 because men will see that a man is1 after all1 the most precious and useful thing on the earth1 and that no cost spent on the development of human beings can possibly be thrown away4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahgj4 ,god's ,pleasure4 ,november #ba4 ,the world was not made for man3 but man1 like all the world1 was made for ,god4 ,not for man's pleasure merely1 not for man's use1 but for ,god's pleasure all things are1 and for ,god's pleasure they were1 created4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahfi4 ,the ,hospital ,nurse4 ,november #bb4 ,fearless1 uncomplaining1 she trusted in ,god and made no haste4 ,she did her work and read her ,bible2 and read1 too1 again and again at stolen moments of rest1 a book which was to her as the finding of an unknown sister--,longfellow's ,evangeline4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xxviii4 ,let us learn to look on hospitals not as acts of charity1 supererogatory benevolences of ours towards those to whom we owe nothing1 but as confessions of sin1 and worthy fruits of penitence2 as poor and late and partial compensation for misery which we might have prevented4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahea4 ,no ,work ,lost4 ,november #bc4 ,if you lose heart about your work1 remember that none of it is lost--that the good of every good deed remains and breeds and works on for ever1 and that all that fails and is lost is the outside shell of the thing1 which1 perhaps1 might have been better done2 but better or worse has nothing to do with the real spiritual good which you have done to men's hearts4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahfb4 ,true ,temperance4 ,november #bd4 ,what we all want is inward rest2 rest of heart and brain2 the calm1 strong1 self-contained1 self-denying character1 which needs no stimulants1 for it has no fits of depression2 which needs no narcotics1 for it has no fits of excitement2 which needs no ascetic restraints1 for it is strong enough to use ,god's gifts without abusing them2 the character1 in a word1 which is truly temperate1 not in drink and food merely1 but in all desires1 thoughts1 and actions4 ,essays4 #ahgc4 ,a ,present ,veil4 ,november #be4 ,what is there in this world worth having without religion8 ,do you not feel that true religion1 even in its most imperfect stage1 is not merely an escape from hell after death but the only real state for a man--the only position to live in in this world--the only frame of mind which will give anything like happiness here4 ,i cannot help feeling at moments--if there were no ,christ1 everything1 even the very flowers and insects1 and every beautiful object1 would be hell now--dark1 blank1 hopeless4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdc4 ,cowardice4 ,november #bf4 ,there is but one thing which you have to fear in earth or heaven--being untrue to your better selves1 and therefore untrue to ,god4 ,if you will not do the thing you know to be right1 and say the thing you know to be true1 then indeed you are weak4 ,you are a coward2 you desert ,god4 ,true ,words for ,brave ,men4 ,blind ,faith4 ,november #bg4 ,in ,him--,the ,father--,i can trust1 in spite of the horrible things ,i see happen1 in spite of the fact that my own prayers are not answered4 ,i believe that ,he makes all things work together for the good of the human race1 and of me among the rest1 as long as ,i obey ,his will4 ,i believe ,he will answer my prayer1 not according to the letter1 but according to the spirit of it2 that if ,i desire good1 ,i shall find good1 though not the good ,i longed for4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahfb4 ,small and ,great4 ,november #bh4 ,begin with small things--you cannot enter into the presence of another human being without finding there more to do than you or ,i or any soul will ever learn to do perfectly before we die4 ,let us be content to do little if ,god sets us little tasks4 ,it is but pride and self-will which says1 ,give me something huge to fight and ,i shall enjoy that--but why make me sweep the dust8 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahed4 ,true and ,false4 ,november #bi4 ,we must remember that dissatisfaction at existing evil 7the feeling of all young and ardent minds71 the struggle to escape from the circumstance of the evil world1 has a carnal counterfeit--the love of novelty1 and self-will1 and self-conceit1 which may thrust us down into the abysses of misrule and uncertainty2 as it has done such men as ,shelley and ,byron2 trying vainly every loophole1 beating against the prison bars of an imperfect system2 neither degraded enough to make themselves a fool's paradise within it1 nor wise enough to escape from it through ,christ1 the door into the sheepfold1 to return when they will1 and bring others with them into the serene empyrean of spiritual truth--truth which explains1 and arranges1 and hallows1 and subdues everything4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdb4 ,the ,mind of ,christ4 ,november #cj4 ,how can we attain to the blessed and noble state of mind--the mind of ,christ1 who must needs be about ,his ,father's business1 which is doing good8 ,only by prayer and practice4 ,there is no more use in praying without practising than there is in practising without praying4 ,you cannot learn to walk without walking2 no more can you learn to do good without trying to do good4 ,sermons for the ,times4 #ahee4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,november #a4 ,all ,saints' ,day4 ,commemoration of the ,blessed ,dead4 ,if any man serve ,me1 him will ,my ,father honour1 said the ,blessed ,one4 ,and if ,god honours ,his servants1 shall not we honour them likewise8 ,we may not1 as our forefathers did blindly1 though lovingly1 worship them as mediators and lesser gods1 and pray to them instead of to their ,father in heaven to whose throne of grace we may all come boldly through ,christ ,jesus1 or believe that their relics will work miracles in our behalf1 thus honouring the creature instead of the ,creator4 ,this we may not do1 but we may honour the ,creator in ,his creature1 and honour ,god in those who have lived godly and ,god-like lives2 and when they have passed away from among us--souls endued by ,god with manifold virtues and precious gifts of grace--we may give thanks and say1 ,these1 ,o ,god1 are the fruits of ,thy ,spirit4 ,thou honourest them in heaven with ,thy approving smile4 ,we will honour them on earth1 not merely with our lips1 but in our lives4 ,what they were we too might be1 if we were as true as they to the inspiration of ,thy ,spirit4 ,help us to honour their memories1 as ,thou and they would have us do1 by following their example2 by setting them before us1 and not only them1 but every holy and noble personage of whom we have ever heard1 as dim likenesses of ,christ--even as ,christ is the likeness of ,thee4 ,amen4 ,,ms4 ,sermon4 ,,november #cj4 ,st4 ,andrew1 ,apostle and ,martyr4 ,form your own notions about angels and saints in heaven--as you will1 4 4 4 but bear this in mind3 that if the saints in heaven live the everlasting life1 they must be living a life of usefulness1 of love1 and of good works4 ,the everlasting life cannot be a selfish1 idle life1 spent only in individual happiness4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 ,december4 ,it chanced upon the merry1 merry ,christmas eve1 ,i went sighing past the ,church across the moorland dreary3 ,oh6 never sin and want and woe this earth will leave1 ,and the bells but mock the wailing sound1 they sing so cheery4 ,how long1 ,o ,lord6 how long before ,thou come again8 ,still in cellar and in garret1 and on moorland dreary1 ,the orphans moan1 and widows weep1 and poor men toil in vain3 ,till earth is sick of hope deferred1 though ,christmas bells be cheery4 ,then arose a joyous clamour from the wild-fowl on the mere1 ,beneath the stars across the snow1 like clear bells ringing1 ,and a voice within cried1 ,listen6 ,christmas carols even here6 ,though thou be dumb1 yet o'er their work the stars and snows are singing4 ,blind6 ,i live1 ,i love1 ,i reign1 and all the nations through ,with the thunder of my judgments even now are ringing2 ,do thou fulfil thy work but as yon wild-fowl do1 ,thou wilt heed no less the wailing1 yet hear through it the angels' singing4 ,a ,christmas ,carol4 ,the ,final ,victory4 ,december #a4 ,i believe that the ancient creed1 the eternal gospel1 will stand and conquer1 and prove its might in this age1 as it has in every other for eighteen hundred years1 by claiming and subduing and organising those young anarchic forces which now1 unconscious of their parentage1 rebel against ,him to whom they owe their being4 ,yeast1 ,preface4 #ahea4 ,drifting away4 ,december #b4 ,they drift away--,ah1 ,god6 they drift for ever4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ,i watch them drift--the old familiar faces1 ,till ghosts1 not men1 fill old beloved places4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ,shores1 landmarks1 beacons drift alike4 ,yet overhead the boundless arch of heaven ,still fades to night1 still blazes into day4 ,ah1 ,god6 ,my ,god6 ,thou wilt not drift away6 ,a ,fragment4 #ahfg4 ,our ,father4 ,december #c4 ,take your sorrows not to man1 but to your ,father in heaven4 ,if that name1 ,father1 mean anything1 it must mean that ,he will not turn away from ,his wandering child in a way in which you would be ashamed to turn away from yours4 ,if there be pity1 lasting affection1 patience in man1 they must have come from ,him4 ,they1 above all things1 must be ,his likeness4 ,believe that ,god possesses them a million times more fully than any human being4 ,letters and ,memories4 ,circumstance4 ,december #d4 ,our wanton accidents take root1 and grow ,to vaunt themselves ,god's laws1 until our clothes1 ,our gems1 and gaudy books1 and cushioned litters ,become ourselves1 and we would fain forget ,there live who need them not4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act ii4 ,scene v4 #ahdg4 ,duty4 ,december #e4 ,when a man has once said honestly to himself1 ,it is my duty2 when that glorious heavenly thought has risen upon his soul1 like the sun upon the earth1 warming his heart and enlightening it1 and making it bring forth all good and noble fruits1 then that man will feel a strength come to him and a courage come from ,god which will conquer all his fears1 his selfish love of ease and pleasure1 and enable him to bear pain and poverty and death itself1 provided he can do what is right1 and be found by ,god working ,his will where ,he has put him4 ,sermons4 ,humanity and the ,bible4 ,december #f4 ,he who has an intense perception of humanity must know that ,christianity is divine1 because it is the only religion which has a perfect perception of human relations1 wants1 and feelings4 ,none but ,he who made the heart could have written the ,bible4 ,,ms4 ,note-book4 #ahdc4 ,music4 ,december #g4 ,there is music in heaven1 because in music there is no self-will4 ,music goes on certain laws and rules4 ,man did not make those laws of music1 he has only found them out1 and if he be self-willed and break them1 there is an end of his music instantly2 all he brings out is discord and ugly sounds4 ,music is fit for heaven4 ,music is a pattern and type of heaven1 and of the everlasting life of ,god which perfect spirits live in heaven2 a life of melody and order in themselves2 a life of harmony with each other and with ,god4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 #ahei4 ,waiting4 ,december #h4 ,ay--stay awhile in peace4 ,the storms are still4 ,beneath her eider robe the patient earth ,watches in silence for the sun3 we'll sit ,and gaze up with her at the changeless heaven1 ,until this tyranny be overpast4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act iii4 ,scene iii4 #ahdg4 ,true or ,false ,toleration8 ,december #i4 ,one thing at least ,i have learnt1 he said1 in all my experiments on poor humanity--never to see a man do a wrong thing without feeling ,i could do the same in his place4 ,i used to pride myself on that once1 fool that ,i was1 and call it comprehensiveness4 ,i used to make it an excuse for sitting by and seeing the devil have it all his own way1 and call that toleration4 ,i will see now whether ,i cannot turn the said knowledge to a better account1 as common sense1 patience1 and charity1 and yet do work of which neither ,i nor my country need be ashamed4 ,two ,years ,ago1 chap4 xxiii4 #ahef4 ,success and ,defeat4 ,december #aj4 ,in many things success at first is dangerous1 and defeat an excellent medicine for testing people's honesty--for setting them honestly to work to see what they want1 and what are the best modes of attaining it4 ,our sound thrashing1 as a nation1 in the first ,french war was the making of our armies2 and it is good for an idea1 as well as for a man1 to bear the yoke in his youth4 ,lectures on ,ancien ,regime4 #ahfg4 ,passing ,emotions4 ,december #aa4 ,beware of depending on your own emotions1 which are often but the fallings and risings of the frail flesh1 and mistaking them for spiritual feelings and affections6 99 99 99 99 99 ,think less of what you feel--even of trying to be anything4 ,look out of yourself at ,god4 ,pray and praise1 and ,god will give you ,his ,spirit often when you feel most dull4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,christ's ,church4 ,december #ab4 4 4 4 ,what a thought it is that there is a ,god6 a ,father1 a ,king6 a ,husband not of individuals1 that is a ,popish fancy1 which the ,puritans have adopted--but of the ,church--of collective humanity4 ,let us be content to be members2 let us be1 if we may1 the feet1 lowest1 hardest worked1 trodden on1 bleeding1 brought into harshest contact with the evil world6 ,still we are members of ,christ's ,church6 4 4 4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdc4 ,confound me not4 ,december #ac4 ,have charity1 have patience1 have mercy4 ,never bring a human being1 however silly1 ignorant1 or weak1 above all1 any little child1 to shame and confusion of face4 ,never by petulance1 by suspicion1 by ridicule1 even by selfish and silly haste1 never1 above all1 by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer1 crush what is finest1 and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature4 ,westminster ,sermons4 #ahgb4 ,the ,divine ,hunger and ,thirst4 ,december #ad4 ,god grant us to be among those who really hunger and thirst after righteousness1 and who therefore long to know what righteousness is1 that they may copy it--those who long to be freed not merely from the punishment of sin after they die1 but from sin itself while they live on earth1 and who therefore wish to know what sin is that they may avoid it4 ,preface to ,tauler's ,sermons4 #ahed4 ,religion or ,godliness8 ,december #ae4 ,this is the especial curse of our day1 that religion does not mean1 as it used1 the service of ,god--the being like ,god and showing forth ,god's glory4 ,no1 religion means nowadays the art of getting to heaven when we die1 and saving our own miserable souls1 and getting ,god's wages without doing ,god's work--as if that was godliness1 as if that was anything but selfishness1 as if selfishness was any the better for being everlasting selfishness6 ,village ,sermons4 #ahdi4 ,christ's ,coming4 ,december #af4 ,christ may come to us when we are fierce and prejudiced1 with that still small voice--so sweet and yet so keen1 ,understand those who misunderstand thee4 ,be fair to those who are unfair to thee4 ,be just and merciful to those whom thou wouldst like to hate4 ,forgive and thou shalt be forgiven4 ,he comes to us surely1 when we are selfish and luxurious1 in every sufferer who needs our help1 and says1 ,if you do good to one of these1 my brethren1 you do it unto ,me4 ,last ,sermon4 ,,ms4 #ahgd4 ,god's ,nature4 ,december #ag4 ,when will men open their eyes to the plain axiom that nothing is impossible with ,god1 save that ,he should transgress ,his own nature by being unjust and unloving8 ,preface to ,tauler4 #ahed4 ,educators of ,men4 ,december #ah4 ,there are those who consider--and ,i agree with them--that the education of boys under the age of twelve years ought to be entrusted1 as much as possible1 to women4 ,let me ask--of what period of youth and manhood does it not hold true8 ,i pity the ignorance and conceit of the man who fancies that he has nothing left to learn from cultivated women4 ,i should have thought that the very mission of woman was to be1 in the highest sense1 the educator of man1 from infancy to old age2 that that was the work towards which all the ,god-given capacities of women pointed4 ,lecture on ,thrift4 #ahfi4 ,the ,earthly ,body4 ,december #ai4 ,let us remember that if the body does feel a burden now 7as it must at moments71 what a happiness it is to have a body at all3 how lonely1 cold1 barren1 would it be to be a disembodied spirit4 ,as ,st4 ,paul says1 ,not that we desire to be unclothed1 but to be clothed upon--to have a spiritual1 deathless1 griefless life instilled into the body4 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdb4 ,home at ,last4 ,december #bj4 ,when all the world is old1 lad1 ,and all the trees are brown1 ,and all the sport is stale1 lad1 ,and all the wheels run down2 ,creep home and take your place there1 ,the spent and maimed among3 ,god grant you find one face there ,you loved when all was young4 ,the ,water ,babies4 #ahfb4 ,the ,bible4 ,december #ba4 ,the hearts and minds of the sick1 the poor1 the sorrowing1 the truly human1 all demand a living ,god who has revealed ,himself in living acts2 a ,god who has taught mankind by facts1 not left them to discover ,him by theories and sentiments2 a ,judge1 a ,father1 a ,saviour1 an ,inspirer2 in a word1 their hearts demand the historic truth of the ,bible--of the ,old ,testament no less than the ,new4 ,sermons on ,pentateuch4 #ahfc4 ,shaking of ,heaven and ,earth4 ,december #bb4 ,yet once more ,i shake not the earth only1 but heaven 7,hebrews xii4 #bf- #bi74 ,this is one of the royal texts of ,scripture4 ,it declares one of those great laws of the kingdom of ,god which may fulfil itself once and again at many eras and by many methods2 which fulfilled itself most gloriously in the first century after ,christ2 again in the fifth century2 again at the time of the ,crusades2 and again at the great ,reformation in the sixteenth century1--and is fulfilling itself again at this very day4 ,westminster ,sermons4 #ahgb4 ,self-,respect the ,voice of ,god4 ,december #bc4 ,never hurt any one's self-respect4 ,never trample on any soul1 though it may be lying in the veriest mire2 for that last spark of self-respect is as its only hope1 its only chance2 the last seed of a new and better life2 the voice of ,god which still whispers to it1 ,you are not what you ought to be1 and you are not what you can be4 ,you are still ,god's child1 still an immortal soul4 ,you may rise yet1 and fight a good fight yet1 and conquer yet1 and be a man yet1 after the likeness of ,god who made you1 and ,christ who died for you4 ,oh6 why crush that voice in any heart8 ,if you do the poor creature is lost1 and lies where he or she falls1 and never tries to rise again4 ,good ,news of ,god ,sermons4 #ahei4 ,christmas ,eve4 ,december #bd4 ,we will have no sad forebodings on the eve of the blessed ,christmas-tide4 ,he lives1 ,he loves1 ,he reigns2 and all is well2 for we are ,his and ,he is ours4 ,two ,years ,ago1 ,introduction4 #ahef4 ,the ,miracle of ,christmas ,night4 ,december #be4 ,after the crowning miracle of this most blessed night all miracles are possible4 ,the miracle of ,christmas night was possible because ,god's love was absolute1 infinite1 unconquerable1 able to condescend to anything that good might be done4 4 4 4 ,this ,christmas night is the one of all the year which sets a physicist on facing the fact of miracle1 and which delivers him from the bonds of sense and custom by reminding him of ,god made ,man4 ,letters and ,memories4 #aheh4 ,redemption4 ,december #bf4 ,all things are blessed now1 but sin2 for all things1 excepting sin1 are redeemed by the life and death of the ,son of ,god4 ,blessed are wisdom and courage1 joy and health and beauty1 love and marriage1 childhood and manhood1 corn and wine1 fruit and flowers1 for ,christ redeemed them by ,his life4 4 4 4 ,blessed is death1 and blest the unknown realms where souls await the ,resurrection ,day1 for ,christ redeemed them by ,his death4 ,blessed are all days1 dark as well as bright1 for all are ,his1 and ,he is ours2 and all are ours1 and we are ,his for ever4 ,national ,sermons4 #ahdh4 ,fellow-workers with ,christ4 ,december #bg4 ,to abolish the superstition1 the misrule1 the vice1 the misery of this world4 ,that is what ,christ will do in the day when ,he has put all enemies under ,his feet4 ,that is what ,christ has been doing1 step by step1 ever since that day when first ,he came to do ,his ,father's will on earth in great humility4 ,therefore1 that is what we must do1 each in our place and station1 if we be indeed ,his subjects1 fellow-workers with ,him in the improvement of the human race1 fellow-soldiers with ,him in the battle against evil4 ,all ,saints' ,day ,sermons4 #ahfg4 ,the bright ,pathway4 ,december #bh4 ,there is a healthy ferment of mind in which one struggles through chaos and darkness1 by means of a few clues and threads of light--and--of one great bright pathway1 which ,i find more and more to be the only escape from infinite confusion and aberration1 the only explanation of a thousand human mysteries--,i mean the ,incarnation of our ,lord--the fact that there really is--a ,god-,man6 ,,ms4 ,letter4 #ahdd4 ,new ,worship4 ,december #bi4 ,blessed1 thrice blessed1 is it to find that hero-worship is not yet passed away6 that the heart of man still beats young and fresh2 that the old tales of ,david and ,jonathan1 ,damon and ,pythias1 ,socrates and ,alcibiades1 ,shakespeare and his nameless friend1 of love passing the love of woman1 ennobled by its own humility1 deeper than death and mightier than the grave1 can still blossom out1 if it be but in one heart here and there1 to show man still how1 sooner or later1 he that loveth knoweth ,god1 for ,god is love4 ,miscellanies4 #ahej4 ,links in the ,chain4 ,december #cj4 ,the heart will cry out at times1 ,oh6 blissful future6 ,oh1 dreary present6 ,but let us not repine4 ,what is dreary need not be barren4 ,nothing need be barren to those who view all things in their real light1 as links in the great chain of progression both for themselves and for the ,universe4 ,to us all ,time should seem so full of life3 every moment the grave and the father of unnumbered events and designs in heaven and earth1 and the mind of our ,god ,himself--all things moving smoothly and surely in spite of apparent checks and disappointments towards the appointed end4 ,letters and ,memories4 #ahdd4 ,past1 ,present1 ,future4 ,december #ca4 ,surely as the years pass on they ought to have made us better1 more useful1 more worthy4 ,we may have been disappointed in our lofty ideas of what ought to be done1 but we may have gained more clear and practical notions of what can be done4 ,we may have lost in enthusiasm1 and yet gained in earnestness4 ,we may have lost in sensibility1 yet gained in charity1 activity1 and power4 ,we may be able to do far less1 and yet what we do may be far better done4 ,and our very griefs and disappointments--have they been useless to us8 ,surely not4 ,we shall have gained instead of lost by them if the ,spirit of ,god has been working in us4 ,our sorrows will have wrought in us patience1 our patience experience1 and that experience hope--hope that ,he who has led us thus far will lead us farther still1 that ,he who has taught us in former days precious lessons--not only by sore temptations but most sacred joys--will teach us in the days to come fresh lessons by temptations1 which we shall be more able to endure2 and by joys which1 though unlike those of old times1 are no less sacred1 but sent as lessons to our souls by ,him from whom all good gifts come4 ,water of ,life ,sermons4 ,out of ,god's boundless bosom1 the fount of life1 we came2 through selfish1 stormy youth1 and contrite tears--just not too late2 through manhood1 not altogether useless2 through slow and chill old age1 we return whence we came1 to the bosom of ,god once more--to go forth again1 it may be1 with fresh knowledge and fresh powers1 to nobler work4 ,amen4 ,the ,air ,mothers4 #ahfi4 ,,saints' ,,days1 ,,fasts1 ,,festivals4 ,,december #ba4 ,st4 ,thomas1 ,apostle and ,martyr4 ,the spirits of just men made perfect1 freed from the fetters of the gross animal body1 and now somewhere in that boundless universe in which this earth is but a tiny speck1 doing ,god's will as they longed to do it on earth1 with clearer light1 fuller faith1 deeper love1 mightier powers of usefulness6 ,ah1 that we were like unto them6 ,all ,saints' ,day and other ,sermons4 ,,december #be4 ,christmas ,day4 ,thank ,god1 that ,one was born1 at this same time1 ,who did our work for us3 we'll talk of ,him3 ,we shall go mad with thinking of ourselves-- ,we'll talk of ,him1 and of that new-made star1 ,which1 as ,he stooped into the ,virgin's side1 ,from off ,his finger1 like a signet-gem1 ,he dropped in the empyrean for a sign4 ,but the first tear ,he shed at this ,his birth-hour1 ,when ,he crept weeping forth to see our woe1 ,fled up to ,heaven in mist1 and hid for ever ,our sins1 our works1 and that same new-made star4 ,saint's ,tragedy1 ,act iv4 ,scene iv4 ,,december #bf4 ,st4 ,stephen1 the ,martyr4 ,these are the holy ones--the heroes of mankind1 the elect1 the aristocracy of grace4 ,they are those who carry the palm branch of triumph1 who have come out of great tribulation1 who have dared and fought and suffered for ,god and truth and right2 who have resisted unto blood1 striving against sin4 ,what should easy-going folk like you and me do but place ourselves with all humility1 if but for an hour1 where we can look afar off upon our betters1 and see what they are like and what they do4 ,all ,saints' ,day and other ,sermons4 ,,december #bg4 ,st4 ,john1 ,apostle and ,evangelist4 ,and what do they do1 these blessed beings8 ,they longed for1 toiled for1 it may be died for1 the true1 the beautiful1 and the good2 they entered while on earth into the mystery and glory of self-sacrifice1 and now they find their bliss in gazing on the one perfect and eternal sacrifice1 and rejoicing in the thought that it is the cause and ground of the whole universe1 even the ,lamb slain before the foundation of the world4 ,all ,saints' ,day and other ,sermons4 ,,december #bh ,holy ,innocents' ,day4 ,christ comes to us in many ways4 ,but most surely does ,christ come to us1 and often most happily1 and most clearly does ,he speak to us--in the face of a little child1 fresh out of heaven4 ,ah1 let us take heed that we despise not one of these little ones1 lest we despise our 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