Autobiography And Diary of Elizabeth Parsons Channing Gleanings of a Thoughtful
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" 31. " Pity and fairness are two little words, which, carried out, would embrace the utmost delicacies of the moral life. " I commend the following lines to the thoughtful consideration of those who maintain that " Life is not living if it be not an ' ecstasy, ' " *' God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn, Wouldst thou ask why? It is because all noblest things are born In agony. Only upon some cross of pain or woe God's Son may lie Each soul redeemed from self and sin must know Its Calvary.... " [142] AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND DIARY February i. A troublous day, perplexing questions, forgetful servitors. On such days it is well to call to mind faithful, unobtrusive lives, which seem to have little to cheer and nothing to electrify. I count myself a judge of obituaries, having written half a dozen and read more. I have lately read one unusu- ally satisfactory, plain, simple, and convincingly true. It said, ". . . She lived in the life of others, and her friends never went to her for advice and sympa- thy without coming away cheered and helped.
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