Miscellanies, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Miscellanies, Vol. 1 of 2

There are, of course, higher and lower degrees of this faith; its object is one more or less worthy: but it is in all cases the belief in certain unseen eternal facts, by keeping true to which a man must in the long run succeed. Must; because he is more or less in harmony with heaven, and earth, and the Maker thereof, and has therefore fighting on his side a great portion of the universe perhaps the Whole for as he who breaks one commandment of the law is guilty of the whole, because he denies the fount of all law, so he who with his whole Soul keeps one commandment of it is likely to be in harmony with the whole, because he testifies of the fount of all law.

I shall devote a few pages to the story of an old hero, of a man of like passions with ourselves of one who had the most intense and awful sense of the un seen laws, and succeeded mightily thereby of one who had hard struggles with a flesh and blood which made him at times forget those laws, and failed mightily thereby: of one Whom God so loved that He caused each slightest sin, as with David, to bring its own punishment with it, that While the flesh was delivered over to Satan, the man himself might be saved in the Day of the Lord; of one, finally, of whom nine hun dred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand may say, I have done worse deeds than he: but I have never done as good ones.'

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