Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . a shadowy sadness forthe meetingless barren fortnight beforeher. It involved us in remorse and secretmelancholy. To consider that the sacri-fice should have more worth to her thanthe prayer - meeting seemed depends on how one feels toward either,on frequency and custom, on which of thetwo has settled more stolidly into theplodding habits of life, and become moreof a dusty usage. In The Legend Beau-tiful it is said of a certain monk thata celestial vision of his Lord came tohim in his cell, and was splendid inco
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . a shadowy sadness forthe meetingless barren fortnight beforeher. It involved us in remorse and secretmelancholy. To consider that the sacri-fice should have more worth to her thanthe prayer - meeting seemed depends on how one feels toward either,on frequency and custom, on which of thetwo has settled more stolidly into theplodding habits of life, and become moreof a dusty usage. In The Legend Beau-tiful it is said of a certain monk thata celestial vision of his Lord came tohim in his cell, and was splendid incountenance and vesture, and consolingto his depression. But it happened to bethe hour in his routine of offices when heshould feed the hungry who came to themonastery gate daily at that hour. Therearose a doubtful question, to go or stay,a subject for casuistry and differentpoints of view. But after all habit isthe very stuff of the conscience, the voiceof its summons is much like that of animperative duty, and he turned his backand plodded away to his beggars. One.
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