. For the best things. May younot be with your friend for hours and nevermake a single request? You talk of thingsthat are dear to you. Sometimes indeed youmay not speak at all, but sit in silence, yourhearts flowing together in love and fellow-ship. Prayer to God is not all clamor for[ 262 ] I^mting Wit^^out Ceasing favors. Much of it is loves tryst, sweet com-munion without words, as when John leanedhis head on Jesus breast, and loved andrested in silence. Rather^ as friends sit sometimes hand in handyNor mar with words the sweet speech_of their eyes;So in soft silence let us oftener
. For the best things. May younot be with your friend for hours and nevermake a single request? You talk of thingsthat are dear to you. Sometimes indeed youmay not speak at all, but sit in silence, yourhearts flowing together in love and fellow-ship. Prayer to God is not all clamor for[ 262 ] I^mting Wit^^out Ceasing favors. Much of it is loves tryst, sweet com-munion without words, as when John leanedhis head on Jesus breast, and loved andrested in silence. Rather^ as friends sit sometimes hand in handyNor mar with words the sweet speech_of their eyes;So in soft silence let us oftener try with words to make God understand,^ [26S] Eootis anD Bo0e0 [26fi] ^I think mans great capacity for pain Proves his immortal birthright. I am sure No merely human mind could bear the strainOf some tremendous sorrows we endure. Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earths overwhelming fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine,Convinces me of everlasting life, [266] CHAPTER NINETEEN. OME people dislike creedsand doctrines. We haveno time for these, theysay. Life is too shortfor the discussion of theseabstruse matters. Give uspractical duties. Tell us how to live, how tomake home sweet, how to get along with peo-ple, how to act in our social relations. Butwe cannot have flowers without roots, andwhat roots are to roses doctrines are to du-ties. Nearly all of St. Pauls Epistles areillustrations of this. There is a section givenup to doctrinal discussion, and ofttimes thisis rather serious reading too. Then followsanother section in which practical duties aretaught, sometimes in a very minute eleven chapters of the Epistle to theRomans are filled with theology. Then, be-ginning with the twelfth, we have a simple[^67] and clear setting forth of duties. Love mustbe without hypocrisy. We are to honor othersrather than ourselves. We are to bless themthat persecute us. We are not to be wise inour own conceit. We are to be good ar
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