Phillips Brooks
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
NEW YORK
Happiness is perfectly
hollow unless there is a
meaning behind it, unless it
tells of intention somewhere,
unless it means love. "Eat and
drink and be merry" is not
the end of it all.
Whoever, by a Christian word he speaks or by
a Christian life he lives, brings a new soul to see
the perfect life and take the perfect grace, 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 poverty.
e want a faith, a truth, a grace to help us now, ... and we can have it. One who was man, yet mightier than man, has walked the vale before us.
Every attempt to do right has a tendency to reveal to us more spiritual ways of doing right, and our need of spiritual helps in doing it.
The thought of life is like that untouched line we call the "sky," but which, when we try to reach it, proves to be not one single line, but an infinite depth ... stored with what strange uses and benefactions we dare not say.
Some men's faith only makes
itself visible; other men's lightens
everything within its reach.
There is positive proof
in the single sunbeam of
the existence of the sun.
