If we fail to realise its meaning now, shall we realise it then? Is not
life here a training for life hereafter? If we learn nothing in this
school, we shall not be able to take our places in that school of
'broader love.' The best part in me does not complain. I thank God for
His thoughtful goodness in bringing you near to me. I thank Him for the
mystery of life, which enables me to realise that {185} Power 'which
lives not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the light.' I
become more and more inclined to thank Him as I see Him more clearly.

_To F. S. H. on his accepting the post of chaplain at the Royal Naval
College, Osborne._

Cambridge: April 30, 1903.

I am satisfied with your decision. I thought over the matter, but I
could not see my way quite clearly to say anything more definite, so I
did not write again. Don't think that my silence was due to slackness.
I did what I thought was better than writing. I spent an hour in praying
over the matter. Now that the matter is settled I can tell you what a
keen pleasure it is to me to have my dear old ---- near me in England,[1]
and doing a piece of work which is full of hope and joy. I would not say
this before, because I did not wish to influence your decision by private
considerations. Get some quiet time for prayer before September 1, that
when you go to Osborne you may go _en pleromati eulogias Christou_
('filled full with the blessing of Christ'). I feel increasingly the
need of such times to learn to walk by faith without stumbling, and to
accustom myself to the atmosphere of faith, to see things as they appear
to a man who has faith 'as a grain of mustard seed.'

[Transcriber's note: The Greek phrases in the above paragraph were
transliterated as follows: _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]

Westcott records a visit (see 'Life,' i. 249) to his old schoolmaster,
Bishop Prince Lee. '"People quote various words of the Lord," said the
Bishop, "as containing the sum of the Gospel--the Lord's Prayer, {186}
the Sermon on the Mount, and the like; to me the essence of the Gospel is
in simpler and shorter terms: _me phobou, monon pisteue_.[2] Ah!
Westcott, mark that _monon_," and his eyes were filled with tears as he
spoke.' Ah! S----, mark that _monon_! .