Heart's-ease
from
Phillips Brooks
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
NEW YORK
Happiness is perfectly
hollow unless there is a
meaning behind it, unless it
tells of intention somewhere,
unless it means love. "Eat and
drink and be merry" is not
the end of it all.
Whoever, by a Christian word he speaks or by
a Christian life he lives, brings a new soul to see
the perfect life and take the perfect grace, has
poured out of his full hands a blessing on his
brother that leaves utterly out of sight any gift
that riches can bestow on poverty.
e want a faith, a truth, a grace to help usnow, ... and we can have it. One who was man,yet mightier than man, has walked the vale beforeus.
Every attempt to do right has a tendency toreveal to us more spiritual ways of doing right,and our need of spiritual helps in doing it.
The thought of life is like that untouched linewe call the "sky," but which, when we try toreach it, proves to be not one single line, butan infinite depth ... stored with what strangeuses and benefactions we dare not say.
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