wife, parent and child, gathered together from the past and
the future, from one creed and another, and take our journey into a far
country, which is yet this earth--a world-migration to the heavenly
Canaan, through the Red Sea of Death, back again to the land which was
given to our forefathers, and is ours even now, could we but find it!"

_Letters and Memories_. 1843.

Body and Soul. August 18.

The mystics considered the soul, _i.e._ the intellect, as the "_moi_" and
the body as the "_non moi_;" and this idea that the body is not _self_,
is the fundamental principle of mysticism and asceticism, and
diametrically opposed to the whole doctrines and practice of Scripture.
Else why is there a resurrection of the body? and why does the Eucharist
"preserve our body and soul to everlasting life?"

_MS._ 1843.

Childlikeness. August 19.

If you wish to be "a little child," study what a little child could
understand--Nature; and do what a little child could do--love. Feed on
Nature. It will digest itself. It did so when you were a little child
the first time.

Keep a common-place book, and put into it not only facts and thoughts,
but observations on form, and colour, and nature, and little sketches,
even to the form of beautiful _leaves_. They will all have their charm .
. . all do their work in consolidating your ideas. Put everything into
it. . . .

_Letters and Memories_. 1842.

Inspiration. August 20.

Every good deed comes from God. His is the idea, His the inspiration,
and His its fulfilment in time; and therefore no good deed but lives and
grows with the everlasting life of God Himself.

_MS._

Lifting of the Veil. August 21.

I seldom pass those hapless loungers who haunt every watering-place
without thinking sadly how much more earnest, happier, and better men and
women they might be if the veil were but lifted from their eyes, and they
could learn to behold that glory of God which is all around them like an
atmosphere, while they, unconscious of what and where they are, wrapt up
each in his little selfish world of vanity and interest, gaze lazily
around them at earth, sea, and sky--

And have no speculation in those eyes
Which they do glare withal

_Glaucus_. 1855.

The Cross--its meaning. August 22.

To take up the cross means, in the minds of most persons, to suffer
patiently under affliction. It is a true and sound meaning, but it means