Go Down Again - I

You Must Make Up Your Mind To The Prospect Of Sustaining A Certain Measure Of Pain And Trouble In You'r Passage Through Life.

It Is Seldom We Have The Heart To Throw Ourselves, If I May So Speak, On The Divine Arm; We Dare Not Trust Ourselves On The Waters, Though Christ Bids Us. We Have Not St. Peter's Love To Ask Leave To Come To Him Upon The Sea. When We Once Are Filled With That Heavenly Charity, We Can Do All Things, Because We Attempt All Things - For To Attempt Is To Do.

I Sought To Hear The Voice Of God And Climbed The Topmost Steeple, But God Declared: "go Down Again - I Dwell Among The People.

You Must Be Patient, You Must Wait For The Eye Of The Soul To Be Formed In You. Religious Truth Is Reached, Not By Reasoning, But By An Inward Perception. Anyone Can Reason; Only Disciplined, Educated, Formed Minds Can Perceive.

Literature Stands Related To Man As Science Stands To Nature; It Is His History.