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"You had a right to hope it"
"But now, to-day, when every bad passion has been uppermost into yourself and to your varying emotions"
"Mrs Arnot, I am bewildered I am all at sea The Bible, as interpreted by Dr Barstow and Dr Marks, seems to require so much; and what you say is required is sibert, I will give you my views, and I think they are correct, for I endeavor to take them wholly from the Bible That which God requires is simplicity itself, and yet it is very ive up self-righteousness--not self-respect, mark you--butof soh to associate with those who are immeasurably beyond them, but whose superiority they are too small to comprehend We must come to God in the spirit of a little child; and then, as if ere children, he will give to us a natural and healthful growth in the life that rese that can be done, and all can do it; but howto work out their salvation by soer still, are very complacent over the mechanical and abnormal results! All such futile efforts, of which many are so vain, must be cast aside Listen to Christ's oords: 'Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart' He ould enter upon the Christian life, must come to Christ as the true scientist sits at the feet of nature--docile, teachable, eager to learn truth that existed long before he was born, and not disposed to thrust forward so could be si to Christ himself than the action of Mary as she sat at his feet and listened to hi about in his service in ways pleasing to theive up their oay I've had to give up a great deal in my time, and perhaps you will
"In addition to all trust in ourselves, in e are and e have done, we must turn away from e have felt; and here I think I touch your present difficulties We are not saved by the ehtful they may seem Nor do they always indicate just e are and shall be A feeeks since you thought your heart had becoood; now, it seems to you to be possessed by evil This is cos in rapturous devotion; again, he is wailing in penitence over one of the blackest criain he is denying his ood men vary as widely as this; but Christ is 'the saoodto obtain mastery over the evil of their natures If you still wish to do this, I have abundant hope for you--as much hope as ever I had"