Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
_This little Volume_, _selected from the MS. Note-books_, _Sermons and Private Letters_, _as well as from the published Works of my Husband_, _is dedicated to our children_, _and to all who feel the blessing of his influence on their daily life and thought_.
As we rose to go, my eye caught a highly-finished drawing of the Resurrection painted above the place where the desk and faldstool and lectern, holding an open missal book, stoo...
7. Part 7Every time we perform an act of kindness to any human being, ay, even to a dumb animal; every time we conquer our worldliness, love of pleasure, ease, praise, ambition, money, f...
10. Part 10They drift away--Ah, God! they drift for ever. . . . . . . I watch them drift--the old familiar faces, Till ghosts, not men, fill old beloved places. . . . . . . Shores, landmar...
5. Part 5There can be no objection to praying for certain special things. God forbid! I cannot help doing it, any more than a child in the dark can help calling for its mother. Only it s...
2. Part 2All the deep things of God are bright, for God is Light. God's arbitrary will and almighty power may seem dark by themselves though deep, but that is because they do not involve...
3. Part 3Christianity alone deprives old age of its bitterness, making it the gate of heaven. Our bodies will fade and grow weak and shapeless, just when we shall not want them, being re...
6. Part 6It was a day of God. The earth lay like one great emerald, ringed and roofed with sapphire: blue sea, blue mountain, blue sky overhead. There she lay, not sleeping, but basking...
1. Part 1_This little Volume_, _selected from the MS. Note-books_, _Sermons and Private Letters_, _as well as from the published Works of my Husband_, _is dedicated to our children_, _an...
9. Part 9Noble old child-hearted heroes, with just romance and superstition enough about them to keep from that prurient hysterical wonder and enthusiasm which is simply, one often fears...
8. Part 8Whenever you think of our Lord's resurrection and ascension, remember always that the background of His triumph is a tomb. Remember that it is the triumph over suffering; a triu...
11. Part 11{3} The paper edition of this book has blank pages where the owner can write diary notes, etc. This is why the page numbers in the eText often miss out numbers.--DP.