_me_" but "give _us_ our daily bread;"
not "forgive me," but "forgive _us_ our trespasses," and that only as we
forgive others; not "lead _me_ not," but "lead _us_ not into temptation;"
not "deliver _me_," but "deliver _us_ from evil." After _that_ manner
our Lord tells us to pray, and in proportion as we pray in that manner,
just so far, and no farther, will God hear our prayers.

_National Sermons_. 1850.

God is Light. February 7.

All 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 His moral character. Join them with the
fact that He is a God of mercy as well as justice; remember that His
essence is love, and the thunder-cloud will blaze with dewy gold, full of
soft rain and pure light.

_MS. Letter_. 1844.

The Veil Lifted. February 8.

Science is, I verily believe, like virtue, its own exceeding great
reward. I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the
man to whom--panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life in
the tropic forest--Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil and show
him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of, some law, or even
mere hint of a law, explaining one fact: but explaining with it a
thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty
whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old chaos of scattered
observations. Is not that a joy, a prize, which wealth cannot give nor
poverty take away? What it may lead to he knows not. Of what use it may
be he knows not. But this he knows, that somewhere it must lead, of some
use it will be. For it is a truth.

_Lectures on Science and Superstition_.
1866.

All Science One. February 9.

Physical and spiritual science seem to the world to be distinct. One
sight of God as we shall some day see Him will show us that they are
indissolubly and eternally the same.

_MS._

Passion and Reason. February 10.

Passion and reason in a healthy mind ought to be inseparable. We need
not be passionless because we reason correctly. Strange to say, one's
feelings will often sharpen one's knowledge of the truth, as they do
one's powers of action.

_MS._ 1843.

Enthusiasm and Tact. February 11.

. . . People smile at the "enthusiasm of youth"--that enthusiasm which
they themselves secretly look back at with a sigh,