Only, stay by his side
Till the page is really known,
It may be we failed because we tried
To learn it all alone,
And now that He would not let us lose
One lesson of love
(For He knows the loss,)—can we refuse?
LIBERTY.
A day, an hour of virtuous liberty,
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
The first freedom is freedom from sin.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
It is a question not often considered, whether we are not just as independent when we choose an upright and godly course, even if our fathers did walk in it, as when we follow somebody's example in sin. Indeed the highest and truest independence is that which always elects to do right.
Conquer thyself. Till thou hast done that, thou art a slave; for it is almost as well to be in subjection to another's appetite as thine own.
