This infallibly leads to a favorable result. To begin with, in occupying myself with my own affairs, I shall the more speedily accomplish them, while my friend is doing the same.
If he appeals to me for help, I will go through fire and water to serve him, but if not, then I do both myself and [pg 160] him the greater service by abstaining. If, however, I can serve him without his knowledge of it, and I can see his need, then I must be always ready to do it.
4. Leave my friend always at liberty to think and act for himself in matters of little importance. Why compel him to think and act with me? Am I the type of all that is beautiful and right? Is it not absurd to think that because another acts and thinks differently to myself, he must needs be wrong? No doubt I may not always say, "You are right," but I can at any rate let him think it.
Try this recipe of mine, and I can answer for it your friendship will be lasting.
XI.
Beneath the Eye of God, God Only
As you read these words, are you not conscious of an inward feeling of peace and quietness?
Beneath God's Eye! there is something in the thought like a sheltering rock, a refreshing dew, a gleam of light.
Ah! why always such seeking for some one to see me, to understand, appreciate, praise me?