rtal, eternal thought whose life is its life, whose wisdom is its wisdom. . . . Dissociate immortality from the living Immortality, and it is not a thing to be desired. [ 299 ] Prayer "O God!" I cried and that was all. But what are the prayers of the whole universe more than expansion of that one cry? It is not what God can give us, but God that we want. [ 300 ] Self I sickened at the sight of Myself; how should I ever get rid of the demon? The same instant I saw the one escape: I must offer it back to its source-commit it to Him who had made it. I must live no more from it but from the source of it; seek to know nothing more of it than He gave me to know by His presence therein... . What flashes of self-consciousness might cross me, should be God's gift, not of my seeking, and offered again to Him in every new self-sacrifice. [ 301 ] Visions A man may see visions manifold, and believe them all; . . . something more is needed-he must have that presence of God in his soul of which the Son of Man spoke, saying "If a man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." [ 302 ] The Impervious Soul As for any influence from the public officers of religion, a contented soul may glide through them all for a long life, unstruck to the last, buoyant and evasive as a bee among hailstones. [ 303 ] An Old Garden Not one of the family had ever cared for it on the ground of its old-fashionedness; its preservation was owing merely to the fact that their gardener was blessed with a wholesome stupidity rendering him incapable of unlearning what his father, who had been gardener there before him, had had marvelous difficulty in teaching him. We do not half appreciate the benefits to the race that spring from honest dullness. The clever people are the ruin of everything. [ 304 ] Experience Those who gain no experience are those who shirk the King's highway for fear of encountering the Duty seated by the roadside. [ 305 ] Difficulties It often seems to those in earnest about the right as if all things conspired to prevent their progress. This, of course, is but an appearance, arising in part from this, that the pilgrim must be headed back from the side-paths into which he is constantly wandering. [ 306 ] A Hard Saying There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer to the Kingdom of Heaven than many who have for years believed themselves of it. In the former there is more of the mind of Jesus, and when He calls them they recognize Him at once and go after Him; while the others examine Him from head to foot, and finding Him not sufficiently like the Jesus of their conception, turn their backs and go to church or chapel or chamber to kneel before a vague form mingled of tradition and fancy. [ 307 ] Truisms A mere truism, is it? Yes, it is, and more is the pity; for what is a truism, as most men count truisms? What is it but a truth that ought to have been buried long ago in the lives of men-to send up forever the corn of true deeds and the wine of loving kindness-but, instead of being buried in friendly soil, is allowed to lie about, kicked hither and thither in the dry and empty garret of their brains, till they are sick of the sight and sound of it and, to be rid of the thought of it, declare it to be no living truth but only a lifeless truism? Yet in their brain that truism must rattle until they shift to its rightful quarters in their heart, where it will rattle no longer but take root and be a strength and loveliness. [ 308 ] On Asking Advice When people seek advice it is too often in the hope of finding the adviser side with their second familiar self instead of their awful first self of which they know so little. [ 309 ] No Heel Taps It must be remembered that a little conceit is no more to be endured than a great one, but must be swept utterly away. [ 310 ] Silence Before the Judge Think not about thy sin so as to make it either less or greater in thine own eyes. Bring it to Jesus and let Him show thee how vile a thing it is. And leave it to Him to judge thee, sure that He will judge thee justly; extenuating nothing, for He hath to cleanse thee utterly; and yet forgetting no smallest excuse that may cover the amazement of thy guilt or witness for thee that not with open eyes didst thou do the deed. . . . But again, I say, let it be Christ that excuseth thee. He will do it to more purpose than thou, and will not wrong thy soul by excusing thee a hair too much. [ 311 ] Nothing So Deadening Nothing is so deadening to the divine as an habitual dealing with the outsides of holy things. [ 312 ] Rounding and Completion The only perfect idea of life is a unit, self-existent and creative. That is God, the only One. But to this idea, in its kind, must every life, to be complete as life, correspond; and the human correspondence to self-existence is that the man should round and complete himself by taking in to himself his Origin; by going back and in his own will adopting that Origin.. . . Then has he completed the cycle by turning back upon his history, laying hold of his Cause, and willing his own being in the will of the only I AM. [ 313 ] Immortality "I cannot see what harm would come of letting us know a little-as much at least as might serve to assure us that there was more of something on the other side"-Just this; that, their fears allayed, their hopes encouraged from any lower quarter, men would (as usual) turn away from the Fountain, to the cistern of life. . . . That there are thousands who would forget God if they could but be assured of such a tolerable state of things beyond the grave as even this wherein we now live, is plainly to be anticipated from the fact that the doubts of so many in respect of religion concentrate themselves nowadays upon the question whether there is any life beyond the grave; a question which . . . does not immediately belong to religion at all. Satisfy such people, if you can, that they shall live, and what have they gained? A little comfort perhaps-but a comfort not from the highest source, and possibly gained too soon for their well-being. Does it bring them any nearer to God than they were before? Is He filling one cranny more of their hearts in consequence? [ 314 ] The Eternal Now The bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those-few at any moment on the earth-who do not "look before and after, and pine for what is not" but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now. [ 315 ] The Silences Below Even the damned must at times become aware of what they are, and then surely a terrible though momentary hush must fall upon the forsaken regions. [ 316 ] Dipsomania It is a human soul still, and wretched in the midst of all that whisky can do for it. From the pit of hell it cries out. So long as there is that which can sin, it is a man. And the prayer of misery carries its own justification, when the sober petitions of the self-righteous and the unkind are rejected. He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heartstrings of love trembling. [ 317 ] Reminder But the sparrow and the rook are just as respectable in reality, though not in the eyes of the henwife, as the egg-laying fowl, or the dirt-gobbling duck. [ 318 ] Things Rare and Common The best things are the commonest, but the highest types and the best combinations of them are the rarest. There is more love in the world than anything else, for instance; but the best love and the individual in whom love is supreme are the rarest of all things. [ 319 ] Holy Laughter It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence. [ 320 ] The Self Vain were the fancy, by treatise, or sermon, or poem, or tale, to persuade a man to forget himself. He cannot if he would. Sooner will he forget the presence of a raging tooth. There is no forgetting of ourselves but in the finding of our deeper, our true self-God's idea of us when He devised us-the Christ in us. Nothing but that self can displace the false, greedy, whining self, of which most of us are so fond and proud. And that self no man can find for himself . . . "but as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God." [ 321 ] Either-Or Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or He is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. [ 322 ] Prayer So thinking, she began to pray to what dim, distorted reflection of God there was in her mind. They alone pray to the real God, the Maker of the heart that prays, who know His son Jesus. If our prayers were heard only in accordance with the idea of God to which we seem to ourselves to pray, how miserably would our infinite wants be met! But every honest cry, even if sent into the deaf ear of an idol, passes on to the ears of the unknown God, the heart of the unknown Father. [ 323 ] A Bad Conscience She was sorely troubled with what is, by huge discourtesy, called a bad conscience-being in reality a conscience doing its duty so well that it makes the whole house uncomfortable. [ 324 ] Money He had a great respect for money and much overrated its value as a means of doing even what he called good: religious people generally do. [ 325 ] Scrubbing the Cell The things that come out of a man are they that defile him, and to get rid of them a man must go into himself, be a convict, and scrub the floor of his cell. [ 326 ] The Mystery of Evil Middling people are shocked at the wickedness of the wicked; Gibbie, who knew both so well, was shocked only at the wickedness of the righteous. He never came quite to understand Mr. Sclater: the inconsistent never can be understood. That only which has absolute reason in it can be understood of man. There is a bewilderment about the very nature of evil which only He who made up capable of evil that we might be good, can comprehend. [ 327 ] Prudence No man can order his life, for it comes flowing over him from behind. . . . The one secret of life and development is not to devise and plan but to fall in with the forces at work-to do every moment's duty aright-that being the part in the process allotted to us: and let come-not what will, for there is no such thing -but what the eternal thought wills for each of us, has intended in each of us from the first. [ 328 ] Competition No work noble or lastingly good can come of emulation any more than of greed: I think the motives are spiritually the same. [ 329 ] Method By obeying one learns how to obey. [ 330 ] Prudence Had he had more of the wisdom of the serpent ... he would perhaps have known that to try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse; that the only way to make them good is to be good-remembering well the beam and the mote; that the time for speaking comes rarely, the time for being never departs. [ 331 ] How to Become a Dunce Naturally capable, he had already made of himself rather a dull fellow; for when a man spends his energy on appearing to have, he is all the time destroying what he has, and therein the very means of becoming what he desires to seem. If he gains his end, his success is his punishment. [ 332 ] Love He was... one who did not make the common miserable blunder of taking the shadow cast by love-the desire, namely, to be loved-for love itself; his love was a vertical sun, and his own shadow was under his feet.... But do not mistake me through confounding, on the other hand, the desire to be loved-which is neither wrong nor noble, any more than hunger is either wrong or noble-and the delight in being loved, to be devoid of which a man must be lost in an immeasurably deeper, in an evil, ruinous, yea, a fiendish selfishness. [ 333 ] Preacher's Repentance O Lord, I have been talking to the people; Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zone, And the recoil of my word's airy ripple My heart heedful has purled up and blown. Therefore I cast myself before thee prone: Lay cool hands on my burning brain and press From my weak heart the swelling emptiness. [ 334 ] Deeds I would go near thee-but I cannot press Into thy presence-it helps not to presume. Thy doors are deeds. [ 335 ] Prayer My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am. Like weary waves thought follows upon thought, But the still depth beneath is all thine own, And there thou mov'st in paths to us unknown. Out of strange strife thy peace is strangely wrought; If the lion in us pray-thou answerest the lamb. [ 336 ] The House Is Not for Me The house is not for me-it is for Him. His royal thoughts require many a stair, Many a tower, many an outlook fair Of which I have no thought. [ 337 ] Hoarding In holy things may be unholy greed. Thou giv'st a glimpse of many a lovely thing Not to be stored for use in any mind, But only for the present spiritual need. The holiest bread, if hoarded, soon will breed The mammon-moth, the having pride.... [ 338 ] The Day's First Job With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh. [ 339 ] Obstinate Illusion Have pity on us for the look of things, When blank denial stares us in the face. Although the serpent mask have lied before It fascinates the bird. [ 340 ] The Rules of Conversation Only no word of mine must ever foster The self that in a brother's bosom gnaws; I may not fondle failing, nor the boaster Encourage with the breath of my applause. [ 341 ] A Neglected Form of Justice We should never wish our children or friends to do what we would not do ourselves if we were in their positions. We must accept righteous sacrifices as well as make them. [ 342 ] Good "But if a body was never to do anything but what he knew to be good, he would have to live half his time doing nothing"-"How little you must have thought! Why, you don't seem even to know the good of the things you are constantly doing. Now don't mistake me. I don't mean you are good for doing them. It is a good thing to eat your breakfast, but you don't fancy it's very good of you to do it. The thing is good-not you. . . . There are a great many more good things than bad things to do." [ 343 ] Thou Shalt Not Make Any Graven Image "Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?"-"No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me-not to know me myself." [ 344 ] How to Become a Dunce A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows it. [ 345 ] Our Insolvency If we spent our lives in charity, we should never overtake neglected claims-claims neglected from the very begining of the relations of men. [ 346 ] A Sad Pity "If ever I prayed, mother, I certainly have not given it up."-"Ever prayed, Ian! When a mere child you prayed like an aged Christian!"-"Ah, mother, that was a sad pity! I asked for things of which I felt no need. I was a hypocrite. I ought to have prayed like a little child." [ 347 ] On Method "Can a conscience ever get too fastidious, Ian?"-"The only way to find out is always to obey it." [ 348 ] Wishing She sometimes wished she were good; but there are thousands of wandering ghosts who would be good if they might without taking trouble; the kind of goodness they desire would not be worth a life to hold it. [ 349 ] Fear Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure. [350] The Root of All Rebellion It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine. [ 351 ] Two Silly Young Women They had a feeling, or a feeling had them, till another feeling came and took its place. When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone. [ 352 ] Hospitality I am proud of a race whose social relations are the last upon which they will retrench, whose latest yielded pleasure is their hospitality. It is a common feeling that only the well-to-do have a right to be hospitable. The ideal flower of hospitality is almost unknown to the rich; it can hardly be grown save in the gardens of the poor; it is one of their beatitudes. [ 353 ] Boredom It is not the banished demon only that wanders seeking rest, but souls upon souls in ever growing numbers. The world and Hades swarm with them. They long after a repose that is not mere cessation of labor; there is a positive, an active rest. Mercy was only beginning to seek it, and that without knowing what it was she needed. Ian sought it in silence with God; she in crepitant intercourse with her kind. Naturally ready to fall into gloom, but healthy enough to avoid it, she would rush at anything to do- not to keep herself from thinking, for she had hardly begun to think, but to escape that heavy sense of non-existence, that weary and testless want which is the only form life can take to the yet unliving. [ 354 ] Counting the Cost I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation. In God we live every commonplace as well as most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him when no need is pressing, when things seem going right of themselves, may be harder than when things seem going wrong. [ 355 ] Realism It is when we are most aware of the j'attitude of things that we are most aware of our need of God, and most able to trust in Him. . . . The recognition of inexorable reality in any shape, or kind, or way, tends to rouse the soul to the yet more real, to its relations with higher and deeper existence. It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good. All who dream life instead of living it, require some similar shock. [ 356 ] Avarice "Did you ever think of the origin of the word Avarice?" -"No."-"It comes-at least it seems to me to come- from the same root as the verb have. It is the desire to call things ours-the desire of company which is not of our kind-company such as, if small enough, you would put in your pocket and carry about with you. We call the holding in the hand, or the house, or the pocket, or the power, having: but things so held cannot really be had; having is but an illusion in regard to things. It is only what we can be with that we really possess-that is, what is of our kind, from God to the lowest animal partaking of humanity." [ 357 ] The Lobster Pot She had not learned that the look of things as you go, is not their look when you turn to go back; that with your attitude their mood will have altered. Nature is like a lobster pot: she lets you easily go on, but not easily return. [ 358 ] The First Meeting And all the time it was God near her that was making her unhappy. For as the Son of Man came not to send peace on the earth but a sword, so the first visit of God to the human soul is generally in a cloud of fear and doubt, rising from the soul itself at His approach. The sun is the cloud dispeller, yet often he must look through a fog if he would visit the earth at all. [ 359 ] Reminder Complaint against God is far nearer to God than indifference about Him. [ 360 ] The Wrong Way with Anxiety All the morning he was busy . . . with his heart in trying to content himself beforehand with whatever fate the Lord might intend for him. As yet he was more of a Christian philosopher than a philosophical Christian. The thing most disappointing to him he would treat as the will of God for him, and try to make up his mind to it, persuading himself it was the right and best thing-as if he knew it (to be) the will of God. He was thus working in the region of supposition and not of revealed duty: in his own imagination, and not in the will of God. . . . There is something in the very presence and actuality of a thing to make one able to bear it; but a man may weaken himself for bearing what God intends him to bear, by trying to bear what God does not intend him to bear. . . . We have no right to school ourselves to an imaginary duty. When we do not know, then what he lays upon us is not to know. [ 361 ] Deadlock We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else. [ 362 ] Solitude I began to learn that it was impossible to live for oneself even, save in the presence of others-then, alas, fearfully possible. Evil was only through good; selfishness but a parasite on the tree of life. [ 363 ] Death You will be dead so long as you refuse to die. [ 364 ] Tbe Mystery of Evil The darkness knows neither the light nor itself; only the light knows itself and the darkness also. None but God hates evil and understands it. [ 365 ] The Last Resource "Lilith," said Mara, "you will not sleep, if you lie there a thousand years, until you have opened your hand and yielded that which is not yours to give or to withhold." "I cannot," she answered, "I would if I could, for I am weary, and the shadows of death are gathering about me."-"They will gather and gather, but they cannot infold you while yet your hand remains unopened. You may think you are dead, but it will only be a dream; you may think you have come awake, but it will still be only a dream. Open your hand, and you will sleep indeed- then wake indeed."-"I am trying hard, but the fingers have grown together and into the palm."-"I pray you put forth the strength of your will. For the love of life, draw together your forces and break its bonds!" The princess turned her eyes upon Eve, beseechingly. "There was a sword I once saw in your husband's hands," she murmured. "I fled when I saw it. I heard him who bore it say it would divide whatever was not one and indivisible." "I have the sword," said Adam. "The angel gave it me when he left the gate." "Bring it, Adam," pleaded Lilith, "and cut me off this hand that I may sleep." "I will," he answered. SOURCES 1 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The Child in the Mist 2-9 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The Consuming Fire 10 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The Higher Faith 11-13 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, // Shall Not be Forgiven 14-21 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The New Name 22-24 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The Heart with the Treasure 25-30 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The Temptation in the Wilderness 31-39 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The Eloi 40-42 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The Hands of the Father 43-49 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, Love Thy Neighbor 50-51 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, Love Thine Enemy 52 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, First Series, The God of the Living 53-62 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, The Way 63-71 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, The Hardness of the Way 72-84 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, The Cause of Spiritual Stupidity 85-95 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, The Word of Jesus on Prayer 96-107 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, Man's Difficulty Concerning Prayer 108-118 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, The Last Farthing 119-126 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, Abba, Father 127-141 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, Life 142-147 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, The Fear of God 148-154 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, The Voice of Job 155-164 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, Self-Denial 165-167 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Second Series, The Truth in Jesus 168-177 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, The Creation in Christ 178-180 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, The Knowing of the Son 181-183 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, The Mirrors of the Lord 184-199 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, The Truth 200-202 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, Freedom 203-206 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, King-ship 207-215 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, Justice 216-219 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, Light 220-223 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, The Displeasure of Jesus 224-238 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, Righteousness 239-249 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, The Final Unmasking 250-257 UNSPOKEN SERMONS, Third Series, The Inheritance 258 Phantasies, Chapter 22 259 Phantasies, Chapter 23 260 Alec Forbes, Volume I, Chapter 32 261 Alec Forbes, Volume I, Chapter 33 262 Alec Forbes, Volume II, Chapter I 263 Alec Forbes, Volume II, Chapter 10 264 Alec Forbes, Volume II, Chapter 12 265 Alec Forbes, Volume III, Chapter 4 266 Alec Forbes, Volume III, Chapter 26 267-268 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter I 269 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter 3 270-271 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter 5 272 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter 7 273 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter 9 274 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter n 275 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter 15 276 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter 28 277-278 Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, Chapter 30 279-280 The Golden Key 281 The Shadows 282 The Seaboard Parish, Chapter 2 283 The Seaboard Parish, Chapter 3 284 The Seaboard Parish, Chapter 13 285 The Seaboard Parish, Chapter 19 286 The Seaboard Parish, Chapter 23 287 The Seaboard Parish, Chapter 32 288 The Princess and the Goblin, Chapter 5 289 The Princess and the Goblin, Chapter 27 290 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter n 291 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 17 292 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 18 293 Wilfred, Cumbermede, Chapter 22 294 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 42 295 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 48 296 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 55 297 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 57 298 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 58 299-300 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 59 301 Wilfred Cumbermede, Chapter 60 302-303 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 7 304 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 17 305-306 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 36 307 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 39 308 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 54 309 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 66 310 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 67 311 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 74 312 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 76 313 Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Chapter 94 314-315 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 2 316 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 6 317 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 7 318 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 8 319 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 23 320 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 24 321 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 25 322 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 29 323 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 37 324 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 39 325 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 40 326 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 41 327-328 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 44 329-330 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 47 331 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 50 332 Sir Gibbie, Chapter 59 333 Diary of an Old Soul, January 31 334 Diary of an Old Soul, May 16 335 Diary of an Old Soul, May 26 336 Diary of an Old Soul, July 16 337 Diary of an Old Soul, August 7 338 Diary of an Old Soul, October 10 339 Diary of an Old Soul, November 3 340 Diary of an Old Soul, November 9 341 The Princess and the Curdie, Chapter I 342 The Princess and the Curdie, Chapter 3 343 The Princess and the Curdie, Chapter 7 344 The Princess and the Curdie, Chapter 8 345 What's Mine's Mine, Chapter 5 346 What's Mine's Mine, Chapter 7 347 What's Mine's Mine, Chapter 9 348-349 What's Mine's 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