. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . orders, I might have had the honour to at whose house the Scotch philosopher was a receive from your ladyship a card of invita- guestâbewailed the wickedness of the Jews tion, on the back of which would be written, in not receiving Jesus as their Saviour, she 1 o meet our Saviour; but if He had come finished her diatribe against them by saying : denouncing those aristocrats, the Pharisees, How different would have been His re- and associating with the Publicans and ception had He appeared in our own time I Radicals of the day, we should have treated
. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . orders, I might have had the honour to at whose house the Scotch philosopher was a receive from your ladyship a card of invita- guestâbewailed the wickedness of the Jews tion, on the back of which would be written, in not receiving Jesus as their Saviour, she 1 o meet our Saviour; but if He had come finished her diatribe against them by saying : denouncing those aristocrats, the Pharisees, How different would have been His re- and associating with the Publicans and ception had He appeared in our own time I Radicals of the day, we should have treated How delighted we should all be to throw our Him now very much as the Jews did then, doors open to Him, and listen to His divine and cried out, Take Him to Newgate and precepts 1 Dont you think so, Mr. Carlyle.^ hang [ 134 ] filaix^frafloQ of sKngePx^, And is there care in heaven ? And is there loveIn heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move? There is : else much more wretched were the case. Of men than beasts. But O ! th exceeding graceOf highest God, that loves His creatures so ; And all His works with mercy doth embrace,That blessed angels He sends to and serve to wicked manâto serve his wicked foe ! REST. 135 How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want !How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant,Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward,And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love and nothing for reward : O, why should heavenly God to men have such regard ? EDMUND SPENSER (l 5 53-1 598). %^t. True knowledge is true rest. In whatever world it is into which we penetrateand inquire, to know is to rest. Even in our sorrows, when the worst is overand is known, we begin to rest, even if it be only in the irrevocable despair; soto solve a problem is to rest; or to be assured of an aff
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