Discipline and other Sermons.
Sweetness and Light. April 17.
Ah, that we could believe that God is love, and that he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him! Then we should have no need to be told to cultivate sweetness and light, for they would seem to us the only temper which could make life tolerable in any corner of the universe.
Essay on the Critical Spirit. 1871.
The Contemplative Life. April 18.
“Woman is no more capable than man of living on mere contemplation. We must have an object to whom we may devote the fruits of thought, and unless we have a real one in active life we shall be sure to coin one for ourselves, and spend our spirits on a dream.”
“True, true,” chimed in the counsellor, “spirit is little use without body, and a body it will find; and therefore, unless you let people’s brains grow healthy plants, they will grow mushrooms.”
MS. unfinished Story. 1843.
Sudden Death. April 19.
“What better can the Lord do for a man, than take him home when he has done his work?”