and
fidelity of a kingly power. And then, indeed, shall abide, for them,
and for us, an incorruptible felicity, and an infallible religion;
shall abide for us Faith, no more to be assailed by temptation, no
more to be defended by wrath and by fear;--shall abide with us Hope,
no more to be quenched by the years that overwhelm, or made ashamed by
the shadows that betray:--shall abide for us, and with us, the
greatest of these; the abiding will, the abiding name of our Father.
For the greatest of these is Charity.[261]

[230] _Isaiah_ xl, 12.

[231] I have sometimes been asked what this means. I intended it to
set forth the wisdom of men in war contending for kingdoms, and
what follows to set forth their wisdom in peace, contending for
wealth. [Ruskin.]

[232] See Wordsworth's poem, _My heart leaps up when I behold_.

[233] See _Genesis_ ii, 15, and the opening lines of the first
selection in this volume.

[234] _Joshua_ ix, 21.

[235] In his _Discourses on Art_. Cf. pp. 24 ff. above.

[236] See _The Two Paths_, Sec.Sec. 28 _et seq_. [Ruskin.]

[237] References mainly to the Irish Land Question, on which Ruskin
agreed with Mill and Gladstone in advocating the establishment of a
peasant-proprietorship in Ireland.

[238] _Genesis_ iii, 19.

[239] _Ecclesiastes_ ix, 10.

[240] _Hebrews_ xi, 4.

[241] During the famine in the Indian province of Orissa.

[242] Athena, goddess of weaving.

[243] _Proverbs_ xxxi, 19-22, 24.

[244] _Jeremiah_ xxxviii, 11.

[245] _Matthew_ xxv, 43.

[246] _Matthew_ xxv, 43.

[247] _Revelation_ vi, 13.

[248] _Jeremiah_ xi, 8.

[249] _James_ iv, 14.

[250] _Psalms_ xxxix, 6 and _Revelation_ xiv, 11.

[251] _Ecclesiastes_ ix, 10.

[252] _Psalms_ civ, 4.

[253] _Revelation_ i, 7.

[254] _Daniel_ vii, 10.

[255] _Dies Irae_, the name generally given (from the opening words)
to the most famous of the mediaeval hymns, usually ascribed to the
Franciscan Thomas of Celano (died c. 1255). It is composed in
triplets of rhyming trochaic tetrameters, and describes the Last
Judgment in language of magnificent grandeur, passing into a
plaintive plea for the souls of the dead.

[256] _Acts_ v, 1, 2.

[257] _Galatians_ v. 24.

[258] _Isaiah_ lviii, 7.

[259] 2 _Thessalonians_ iii, 10.

[260] _Luke_ xviii, 11.

[261] 1 _Corinthians_ xiii, 13.

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