en_--epsilon, nu;
_pleromati_--pi, lambda, eta, rho, omega, mu, alpha, tau, iota;
_eulogias_--epsilon, upsilon, lambda, omicron, gamma, iota alpha, final
sigma; _Christou_--Chi, rho, iota, sigma, tau, omicron, upsilon]
_To W. D. H._
St. Moritz: January 4, 1902.
I hope that you are now less overworked than you were in October. You
must at all costs make quiet time. Give up work, if need be. Your
influence finally depends upon your own first-hand knowledge of the
unseen world, and on your experience of prayer. Love and sympathy and
tact and insight are born of prayer. I am glad you have a Junior Clergy
S. P. G. Association. Try to take an intelligent interest in it, and
mind you read a paper before long.
_To his brother Edward in South Africa._
Hotel Belvedere, St. Moritz: January 7, 1902.
I am glad to think that we are now in many respects agreed about the
general question of the {163} war. I suppose in any great historical
upheaval there are at the time a number of people who are attempting to
make capital for themselves out of the misfortunes of others; there are
many who are working for their own hand; and yet, when we look back on
the crisis and judge it as a whole in the calm light of history, we see
that a large and rational purpose has been worked out. At the time of
the English Reformation--as some one was saying to me lately, pointing
the parallel which I am working out--there must have been a number of
honest and pure souls who held aloof from the whole of what appeared to
be political jobbery and fortune-making at the expense of religious
sentiment. Yet now most of us feel that the movement could not have had
the effects that it had, unless down below all there was a strong
upheaval of the national conscience. You will no doubt see many defects
in this historical parallel; but the thought is at any rate suggestive,
and full of what we require in these latter days--hope. Of course I feel
that injustice, dishonesty, cruelty, selfishness are in no way palliated
because they take cover and occasion in a real movement of national
feeling.
I feel for you much in your work for examinations. It must come very
hard with ill health and in a hot climate, with the freshness of youth to
some extent passed. But
O well for him whose will is strong,
He suffers, but he shall not suffer long;
He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong
{164} It needs more courage than you were required
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