"En la sua voluntade e nostra pace." [11] In His will is our peace; and in
such peace the mind will find its truest delight, for
"When care sleeps, the soul wakes."
In youth, as is right enough, the idea of exertion, and of struggles, is
inspiriting and delightful; but as years advance the hope and prospect of
peace and of rest gain ground gradually, and
"When the last dawns are fallen on gray,
And all life's toils and ease complete,
They know who work, not they who play,
If rest is sweet." [12]
[1] Gray.
[2] Jefferies.
[3] Tennyson.
[4] Emerson.
[5] Morris.
[6] Coleridge.
[7] Goethe.
[8] Ruskin.
[9] Epictetus.
[10] From Sir M. S. Grant Duff's _A Winter in Syria_.
[11] Dante.
[12] Symonds.
CHAPTER XI.
RELIGION.
"For what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."--MICAH.
"Pure religion and undefiled is this, to visit the fatherless and
widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the
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