[Transcriber's note: The Greek phrases in the above paragraphs were transliterated as follows: kai—kappa, alpha, iota; eireken—epsilon, iota, rho, eta, kappa, epsilon, nu; moi—mu, omicron, iota; Arkei—Alpha, rho, kappa, epsilon, iota; soi—sigma, omicron, iota; he—(rough breating mark) eta; chariu—chi, alpha, rho, iota, final sigma; mou—mu, omicron, upsilon; he—(rough breathing mark) eta; gar—gamma, alpha, rho; dunamis—delta, upsilon; nu, alpha, mu, iota, final sigma; en—epsilon, nu; astheneia—alpha, sigma, theta, epsilon, nu, epsilon, iota, alpha; teleitai—tau, epsilon, lambda, epsilon, iota, tau, alpha, iota; en—en—epsilon, nu; pleromati—pi, lambda, eta, rho, omega, mu, alpha, tau, iota; eulogias—epsilon, upsilon, lambda, omicron, gamma, iota alpha, final sigma; Christou—Chi, rho, iota, sigma, tau, omicron, upsilon]
To W. D. H.
St. Moritz: January 4, 1902.
I hope that you are now less overworked than you were in October. You must at all costs make quiet time. Give up work, if need be. Your influence finally depends upon your own first-hand knowledge of the unseen world, and on your experience of prayer. Love and sympathy and tact and insight are born of prayer. I am glad you have a Junior Clergy S. P. G. Association. Try to take an intelligent interest in it, and mind you read a paper before long.
To his brother Edward in South Africa.
Hotel Belvedere, St. Moritz: January 7, 1902.
I am glad to think that we are now in many respects agreed about the general question of the war. I suppose in any great historical upheaval there are at the time a number of people who are attempting to make capital for themselves out of the misfortunes of others; there are many who are working for their own hand; and yet, when we look back on the crisis and judge it as a whole in the calm light of history, we see that a large and rational purpose has been worked out. At the time of the English Reformation—as some one was saying to me lately, pointing the parallel which I am working out—there must have been a number of honest and pure souls who held aloof from the whole of what appeared to be political jobbery and fortune-making at the expense of religious sentiment. Yet now most of us feel that the movement could not have had the effects that it had, unless down below all there was a strong upheaval of the national conscience. You will no doubt see many defects in this historical parallel; but the thought is at any rate suggestive, and full of what we require in these latter days—hope. Of course I feel that injustice, dishonesty, cruelty, selfishness are in no way palliated because they take cover and occasion in a real movement of national feeling.
I feel for you much in your work for examinations. It must come very hard with ill health and in a hot climate, with the freshness of youth to some extent passed. But
O well for him whose will is strong,
He suffers, but he shall not suffer long;
He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong
It needs more courage than you were required to show on the field of battle. But the reward is sure. I feel strongly that this life is but the prelude to a larger life, when each faculty will have its full exercise.