Archdeacon Wilberforce to Mrs. Moulton
"Dear Mrs. Chandler-Moulton: Thank you for your letter. On page 237, of the book I send you, I have answered your question 'Why cannot God make people good in the first instance.' Because even God can only make things by means of the process by which they become what they are. God could not make a hundred-year-old tree in your garden in one minute. He cannot make a moral being except through the processes by means of which a moral being becomes what he is. What does Walt Whitman say?
"Our life is closed, our life begins.
And again:
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"In the divine ship, the World hasting Time and Space, All People of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound for the same destination...." |
Miss Robbins to Mrs. Moulton
96 Mt. Vernon St.,
January 23, 1906.
My dear Mrs. Moulton: This little note from Dean Hodges belongs to you rather than to me. If you had never written anything else all your life but this beautiful "Help Thou Mine Unbelief," you have done something worth living for, something truly great.