to have
to confess to himself shuddering, what things are possible on God's
earth, when man has forgotten that his only welfare is in living after
the likeness of God.

_Miscellanies_. 1858.

The Heroical Rest. September 14.

Right, lad; the best reward for having wrought well already is to have
more to do; and he that has been faithful over a few things must find his
account in being made ruler over many things. That is the true and
heroical rest which only is worthy of gentlemen and sons of God. As for
those who either in this world or in the world to come look for idleness,
and hope that God will feed them with pleasant things, as it were with a
spoon, Amyas, I count them cowards and base, even though they call
themselves saints and elect.

_Westward Ho_! chap. vii. 1855.

Body and Soul. September 15.

Remember that St. Paul always couples with the resurrection and ascension
of our bodies in the next life the resurrection and ascension of our
souls in this life, for without that, the resurrection of our bodies
would be but a resurrection to fresh sin, and therefore to fresh misery
and ruin.

_All Saints' Day Sermons_. 1870.

Love in Absence. September 16.

Absence quickens love into consciousness.

_MS._

The baby sings not on its mother's breast;
Nor nightingales who nestle side by side;
Nor I by thine: but let us only part,
Then lips which should but kiss, and so be still,
As having uttered all, must speak again.

_Sonnet_. 1851.

Special Providence. September 17.

If I did not believe in a special Providence, in a perpetual education of
men by evil as well as good, by small things as well as great, I could
believe nothing.

_Letters and Memories_.

Love of Work. September 18.

"Can you tell me, my pastor, what part of God's likeness clings to a man
longest and closest and best? No? Then I will tell you. It is the love
of employment. God in heaven must create Himself a universe to work on
and love. And now we sons of Adam, the sons of God, cannot rest without
our _mundus peculiaris_ of some sort--our world subjective, as Doctor
Musophilus has it. But we can create too, and make our little sphere
look as large as a universe."

_MS. Novel_. 1844.

Fret not. September 19.

Fret not, neither be anxious. What God intends to do He will do. And
what we ask believing we shall receive. Never let us get into the common
trick of calling u