,illustration3 ,cover art               
,illustration3 ,inside cover            
,frontispiece3 ,roses   ,illustration3  
,title page    ,heart's-ease  from      
,phillips ,brooks      ,,copyright1     
#aiji1 ,,by  ,,cupples  ,,leon ,,company
  ,,new ,,york     ,illustration3       
,flowers   ,happiness is perfectly      
hollow unless there is a meaning behind 
it1 unless it tells of intention        
somewhere1 unless it means love4  ,eat  
and drink and be merry is not the end of
 it all4   ,illustration3 ,flowers      
,whoever1 by a ,christian word he speaks
 or by a ,christian life he lives1      
brings a new soul to see the perfect    
life and take the perfect grace1 has    
poured out of his full hands a blessing 
on his brother that leaves utterly out  
of sight any gift that riches can bestow
 on poverty4  ,we want a faith1 a truth1
 a grace to help us now1 444 and we can 
have it4  ,one who was man1 yet mightier
 than man1 has walked the vale before   
us4  ,every attempt to do right has a   

tendency to reveal to us more spiritual 
ways of doing right1 and our need of    
spiritual helps in doing it4  ,the      
thought of life is like that untouched  
line we call the sky1 but which1 when we
 try to reach it1 proves to be not one  
single line1 but an infinite depth 444  
stored with what strange uses and       
benefactions we dare not say4  ,some    
men's faith only makes itself visible2  
other men's lightens everything within  
its reach4   ,illustration3 ,flowers    
,there is positive proof in the single  
sunbeam of the existence of the sun4    
,strike ,god's iron on the anvil1 see   
,god's goods across the counter1 put    
,god's wealth in circulation1 teach     
,god's children in the school1--so shall
 the dust of your labor build itself    
into a little sanctuary where you and   
,god may dwell together4  ,make truth   
your friend and guide in all your hourly
 business1--truth of plan1 and purpose1 
and labor444  ,whoever will not bow     
before this monarch you have crowned1   

let him be rebel to you4  ,if you are   
not spiritually minded1 do not wait for 
mysterious light and vision4  ,go and   
give up your dearest sin4  ,go and do   
what is right4  ,go and put yourself    
thoroughly into the power of the        
holiness of duty4  ,all the world is an 
utterance of the ,almighty4             
,illustration3 ,cherubs1 flowers   ,it  
seems so far off1 that ,cross of ,jesus1
 and it really is so near6  ,for it is  
lifted up so high that the waves of time
 roll unheeded and unmeaning at its     
foot4  ,it is the power of perfection   
for us to-day4   ,each high achievement 
is a sign and token of the whole        
nature's possibility4  ,what a piece of 
the man was for that shining moment1 it 
is the duty of the whole man to be      
always4  ,may we not daily tread the    
same paths of holiness and sorrow1 joy  
and love1 that ,christ has trodden1 and 
see ,his footsteps on them still8  ,even
 if you have to force yourself to your  
duty1--still1 do it4  ,do your duty1    

even if duty be wearisome and hard1 for 
then you are in the place where it can  
become joyous and easy to you4  ,we must
 answer for our actions2 ,god will      
answer for our powers4   ,illustration3 
,graveyard scene   ,some day certainly  
the fog shall rise1 the clouds shall    
scatter1 and in the perfect             
enlightenment of the other life the soul
 shall see its ,lord1 and be thankful   
for every darkest step that we took     
towards ,him here4  ,devotion is like   
the candle which ,michael ,angelo used  
to carry stuck on his forehead in a     
paste-board cap1 and which kept his own 
shadow from being cast upon his work    
when he was hewing out his statues4     
,david's pilgrims1 going through the    
vale of misery1 use it for a well4 444  
,when they grew thirsty they looked not 
merely farther on into the heart of the 
future1 but deeper down into the bosom  
of the present4  ,the sense of evil in  
life does not deny1 but implies the     
noblest capacities in men4  ,man must be

 a ray of the great sunshine under whose
 touch some special flower may open1 and
 some special fruit fill itself with    
healthy and nutritious juice1 some      
little corner of the field grow rich4   
,any honest task is capable of being so 
largely conceived that he who enters    
into it may see1 stretching before him1 
the promise of things to do and be1 that
 will stir his enthusiasm and satisfy   
his best desires4  ,your life cannot be 
frivolous or vulgar unless you are      
frivolous or vulgar4  ,he who complains 
of his circumstances really complains of
 himself1 and is his own accuser4  ,god 
is as willing that you should read your 
lesson in the sunlight as in the storm4 
,heaven at last will be the perfect     
sight of ,christ4   ,illustration3      
,flowers   ,a life with no intention of 
,god in it must be shallow4  ,the       
thoughtful trader believes that ,trade1 
in its ideal1 is generous and beautiful4
  ,it is the reality that he makes of   
it1 by the way in which he does it1 that

 seems to him sordid4  ,character is the
 divinest thing on earth4  ,it is the   
one thing that you can put into the shop
 or into the study1 and be sure that the
 fire is going to burn4  ,never does    
human nature seem so glorious and so    
wicked all at once as when we stand     
before the cross of ,jesus6  ,the most  
enthusiastic hopes1 the most profound   
humiliation1 have found their           
inspiration there4  ,the only way to run
 from ,god is to run to ,him4 ,the      
,infinite ,knowledge is also the        
,infinite ,pity4   ,illustration3 ,house
 and yard   ,illustration3 ,stream and  
flowers   ,not simply ,his coming and   
,his going1 not simply ,his birth1 or   
death1 but the living1 total life of    
,jesus is the world's salvation4  ,and  
the ,book in which ,his life shines     
orbed and distinct is the world's       
treasure4  ,remember we are debtors to  
the ,good by birth1 but remember we may 
become debtors to the ,bad by life2 and 
both debts--of service and              

allegiance--must be paid alike4  ,not   
merely a ,voice to be heard1 but a      
,friend to be loved1 a ,shepherd to be  
followed1 a ,bread to be eaten1--so does
 the ,christ of the ,gospels present    
,himself in word and sacrament and every
 presentation of ,his personality4  ,the
 tent-life is the true life until the   
building of ,god1 the house not made    
with hands1 is reached4   ,illustration3
 ,flowers   ,the visionary is the man   
who has no present2 the drudge is the   
man who has no future4  ,to be saved    
from being either1--that can come only  
by joining a clear1 sharp1 solid work to
 large hopes and great ambitions4  ,does
 not the soul1 finding the heart of its 
suffering full of joy1 forget the mere  
rough outside in which that heart of joy
 was folded8  ,ideality1 magnanimity and
 bravery--these are what make the       
heroes4  ,the materialist1 the sceptic  
and the coward--he cannot be a hero4    
,to believe is the true glory of        
existence4  ,to disbelieve is to give   

ourselves into the power of death1 and  
just so far to cease from living4  ,it  
is only in poor men and in the lower    
things that success increases           
self-conceit4  ,in every high work and  
in men worthy of it1 success is always  
sure to bring humility4  ,our strength  
is measured by our plastic power444     
,bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks
 until the architect can make them into 
something else4  ,a man who lives right1
 and is right1 has more power in his    
silence than another man by his words4  
,oh6 believe me that no man lives at his
 best to whom life is not becoming      
better and better1 always aware of      
greater and greater forces1 capable of  
diviner and diviner deeds and joys4     
,illustration3 ,sunset and pond   ,god  
is omnipotent1 and man is immortal4     
,therefore be patient and work4  ,the   
end shall certainly be joy1 not sorrow4 
,the stone shall roll away and the dead 
come forth4  ,optimism is a belief in a 
great purpose underlying the world for  

good1 absolutely certain to fulfil      
itself somewhere1 somehow4  ,that must  
have been what ,god saw when ,he looked 
upon the world and called it good4  ,a  
hundred men stand on the shore and say3 
,there is no land beyond4  ,one brave   
and trustful man like ,columbus1        
believes that the complete world is     
complete1 and sails for a fair land     
beyond the sea1 and finds it4  ,put your
 faith where it will be safe2 and the   
only place where a faith ever can be    
safe is in the shrine of an action4     
,illustration3 ,flowers   ,i must have  
some notion in general of what ,i am    
alive for1 or ,i cannot live rightly    
from hour to hour this evening and      
to-morrow morning4  ,give our lives room
 to grow to truth1 and they will grow to
 symmetry2 give them leave to ripen1 and
 they will richen too4  ,the only real  
way to prepare to meet thy ,god is to   
live with thy ,god so that to meet ,him 
shall be nothing strange4  ,it is not   
good for a man to devote himself to     

preparation for dying4  ,it is          
preparation for living that you need4   
,our virtue should not be a deed1 or a  
work1 but a growth--a growth like a     
tree's1 always rising higher from its   
own inward strength and sap4  ,the      
moment that the face is turned away from
 the dead past1 and looks toward the    
living future1 a new power comes4  ,hope
 is awake1 and hope is infinite4        
,illustration3 ,flowers   ,the gracious 
mercy that binds ,omnipotence a willing 
servant to every humble prayer6         
,self-restraint and honesty and         
independence1 if they are the crown upon
 the head of a benignant despotism1 are 
the very lifeblood in the veins of a    
self-governing republic4  ,to be calm   
and serene1 and yet to be full of energy
 and hope of higher things1--this comes 
to him whose life aims at the absolute4 
,if you cannot argue1 live6  ,be true   
and pure and lofty and devout1 and ,he  
who ever seeks the souls of men shall   
find ,his way to some of them through   

you4  ,when a man means to be honest    
solely because honesty is right1 and not
 because honesty is profitable1 there is
 a perpetual and beautiful tendency of  
his honesty to refine and deepen itself4
  ,dependence upon ,god makes the       
independence of men in which are liberty
 and courage4   ,illustration3 ,flowers 
,illustration3 ,flowers   ,there is a   
type of universal human life in harmony 
with the best life of all the ages1 in  
tune with the sublimest and finest      
spiritual music of the universe1 which  
you can live in your parlor and your    
shop4  ,no beauty is really beautiful   
which in any way hinders righteousness  
or weakens spiritual life4  ,to every   
heart's experience comes its time of    
desert-journeyings4444  ,it eats its    
manna in the wilderness4  ,you can know 
nothing which you do not reverence4 ,you
 can see nothing before which you do not
 veil your eyes4  ,repentance for       
safety1 even for cleanness1 is not      
complete4  ,the true motive is that ,god

 may be glorified in us4                
,illustration3 ,angel   ,illustration3  
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