Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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13267	But who is this man?
13267	Did we say uninvaded?
13267	Far- seeing?
13267	Fly away from the moil of the world and find rest and shelter for yourself?
13267	HAUNTED HOURS Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?
13267	How did he get that name?
13267	If he hath sorrow, am I to add my sorrow unto his?
13267	If my brother hath joy, am I to cloud it with my grief?
13267	Is that the best and noblest thing to desire to do?
13267	Rather let us say,''Wherefore should I fear when the iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?''
13267	Saint, did I say?
13267	Supposing you had wings, what would you do?
13267	The first question we ask when we hear of a house having been burnt down is this:''Was there any loss of life?''
13267	What of the sorrow that has no language, and the shame and confusion that we would not, and even dare not, trail across a friend''s mind?
13267	Yes, it is something, but what is it?
13267	but what of that which can not be shared?
10740	And have you ceased to talk about yourself and to regard yourself with self- complacent pride?
10740	Are you content to take the lowest place, and to be passed by unnoticed?
10740	Are you given to ostentation and self- praise?
10740	Are you saved from your temper, your irritability, your vanity, your personal dislikes, your judgment and condemnation of others?
10740	Are you willing to deny yourself, to give up your lusts, your prejudices, your opinions?
10740	Armored in changeless Truth, what can he know Of loss and gain?
10740	Art thou purged by the fires of sorrow?
10740	But how may one attain to this sublime realization?
10740	Divine Love can not be known until self is dead, for self is the denial of Love, and how can that which is known be also denied?
10740	Do you fight, with passion, for your party?
10740	Do you harbor thoughts of suspicion, enmity, envy, lust, pride, or do you strenuously fight against these?
10740	Do you lust for power and leadership?
10740	Do you seek to know and to realize Truth?
10740	Do you strive for riches?
10740	From thy human heart hath all striving gone, Leaving but Truth, and Love, and Peace alone?
10740	Hast thou crossed the wide ocean of strife?
10740	Hast thou found on the Shores of the Silence, Release from all the wild unrest of life?
10740	Hast thou passed through the desert of doubt?
10740	Hast thou passed through the place of despair?
10740	Hast thou wept through the dark night of grief?
10740	Have you pondered seriously upon the problem of life?
10740	Have you relinquished all strife?
10740	Have you sorrowed deeply?
10740	Have you suffered much?
10740	How does he act under trial and temptation?
10740	If not, from what are you saved, and wherein have you realized the transforming Love of Christ?
10740	Is thy soul so fair That no false thought can ever harbor there?
10740	Or have you given up the love of riches?
10740	Reader, do you seek to realize the birth into Truth?
10740	Sheltered by deathless love, what fear hath he?
10740	The final test of wisdom is this,--how does a man live?
10740	What spirit does he manifest?
10740	Who, then, in the midst of the ceaseless pandemonium of schools and creeds and parties, has the Truth?
10740	You say,"How can I love the drunkard, the hypocrite, the sneak, the murderer?
10740	does it move( Now freed from its sorrow and care) Thy human heart to pitying gentleness, Looking on wrong, and hate, and ceaseless stress?
10740	hath ruth The fiends of opinion cast out Of thy human heart?
33701	Does the hunter,says St. John Chrysostom,"who finds splendid game blame those who beat the brushwood before him?
33701	Have I, then,may the religious thus attacked say,"in making my vows renounced my honour and delivered my character to pillage?
33701	If all were perfect,says the"Imitation,""what, then, should we have to suffer from others for God''s sake?"
33701	If thou canst not make thyself such a one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another according to thy liking? 33701 O Lord,"replied the young man,"when I am once entered, what must I do to please You?"
33701	And you, who fly so carefully the gross vices of the world, have you no care or anxiety about damning yourself by slander?"
33701	But from whom?
33701	By eating the Lamb have you become wolves?
33701	Did our Divine Lord work less efficaciously for the Church when He hung on the Cross than when He preached?
33701	Do not many ways and means serve the same ends provided they be employed wisely and perseveringly?
33701	Do they not endeavour to turn the abode of peace into a den of discord, and the sanctuary of prayer into a porch of hell?
33701	Dost thou think thou wilt remain unpunished?
33701	Has he never done anything for which he merits praise?"
33701	Has he never done anything good?
33701	Has my position as religious, has the majesty of the King of Kings, of whom I have become the intimate friend, in place of ennobling me, degraded me?
33701	Has not Jesus Christ, by so many Communions, placed a little sweetness on your tongue and a little charity in your heart?
33701	How long will this agony be prolonged?
33701	How would you wish me to stone my brethren-- me, whose faults are greater and more numerous?"
33701	If we call those who maintain fraternal charity the children of God, should not those who disturb it be called the children of Satan?
33701	In reality what are they doing?
33701	Is it from those discontented spirits whose ears are like public sewers, the receptacle of every filth and dirt?
33701	Is it possible, then, for backbiting to glide into religious communities?
33701	Is not this increase of sensibility and repugnance found in the religious state only to form in us the image of our crucified Lord?
33701	Is not this to sin against the Holy Ghost?
33701	Is there anyone so foolish as to shoot arrows against a stone wall?"
33701	Is this to be the result of your study and practice of virtue?
33701	Love one another tenderly, because as religious you have only one mother-- your Order"?
33701	On such statements, how can a Superior pronounce judgment?
33701	Or does the traveller who finds a purse of gold on the road neglect to pick it up because others who preceded him took no notice of it?"
33701	Should I blacken in my mind the image of God, and seek deformities in the member of Jesus Christ?
33701	Then said Zeno,"How is that?
33701	What excuse can we give, and what mercy will we deserve-- we who have been so keen- sighted to the faults of others, and so blind to our own?
33701	What matters it to me to hear that such a one is wicked, and has done some detestable act?
33701	When will be the time of this complete abandonment?
33701	Who more than He excelled in the art of making agreeable surprises?
33701	Why do not these thoughts inflame my charity in the fire of your Divine love?
33701	or credulous, inconsiderate spirits who believe and repeat everything-- the bad rather than the good?
33701	or ill- humoured, narrow- minded spirits, scandalized at trifles?
33701	or jealous spirits who are offended at the elevation of others?
33701	or polite spirits who wish to appear important?
33701	or vindictive spirits who like to give tit for tat?
33701	what would become of us without Him?"
33701	who will love you if you do not love one another?
33701	why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
21024	Do you hear him?
21024	Hast thou an arm like God? 21024 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him?
21024	Why should ye be stricken any more? 21024 --what have you done to obtain it, or to deserve it? 21024 A horseman is quickly despatched with the question, Is it peace? 21024 Again, what good will in his father''s heart to Esau? 21024 And glad is the Church, as, weary of strife and sin and sorrow, she looks up into the darksome sky, and cries, Watchman, what of the night? 21024 And how of the priests? 21024 And why? 21024 Are they not said in Scripture to beministering spirits sent forth to minister to them who are heirs of salvation?"
21024	Are you not of more value than many sparrows?
21024	At the throne of divine grace, none had ever to shed Esau''s tears, or cry with him, Hast thou but one blessing, O my father?
21024	But shall our world be the limits of the wondrous tale?
21024	But what need to ransack old history for examples?
21024	Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?"
21024	Cursed be the day wherein I was born?"
21024	Did Jonathan love David as his own soul?
21024	He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct?
21024	He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
21024	He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?"
21024	How gladly should we accept them?
21024	How many pages of history are written with the point of the sword-- not with ink, but tears and blood?
21024	How may His people catch up and continue the strain which falls from angels''lips?
21024	If men reject peace, what chance for them in war?
21024	If that be not God''s greatest, and therefore most glorifying work, where are we to seek it?
21024	In dying chambers how are we made painfully, bitterly to feel that man''s power is not commensurate with his will?
21024	Not that we would not have still to ask,"Who can by searching find out God?
21024	Not without reason does He ask,"If I be a father, where is mine honour?
21024	Our glebes have been fattened with the bodies of the slain?
21024	This is sound reasoning-- for, as David says,"He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
21024	Was not our Lord himself poor?
21024	What age has not been the era, what country the scene of bloody strifes?
21024	What availed his father''s good will to him, his favourite son?
21024	What else was the belief of our pagan fathers, that within a dark cave in the bowels of the earth there sat a great scaly dragon, brooding on gold?
21024	What else was the fabled garden of the Hesperides, where the trees, guarded by a fierce and formidable serpent, bore apples of gold?
21024	What peace, is the other''s answer, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother and her witchcrafts are so many?
21024	What said our Lord?
21024	What soil does not hold the dust of thousands that have fallen by brothers''hands?
21024	What though they can not see it?
21024	Who art thou?
21024	Why should a man blush for his humble origin?
21024	Why should any be ashamed of honest poverty?
21024	Why should we spare them, and lose our souls?
21024	_ PART III._ Some years ago the question which agitated the heart of Europe was, Peace or War?
21024	and the Son of man, that thou visitest him?"
21024	and the Son of man, that thou visitest him?"
21024	are not yours unequal?"
21024	but the thunder of his power who can understand?"
21024	if I be a master, where is my fear?"
21024	in what else is it found?
21024	that question might justly have met with Jehu''s answer,"What hast thou to do with peace?"
21024	touches him; and he asks,"What aileth thee?"
21024	where is he that hath taken venison and brought it me; and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him?
21024	who can find out the Almighty to perfection?"
39648	''Why could not we cast him out?'' 39648 Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other''s eyes for an instant?"
39648	Hast thou made much of words, and forms, and tests, And thought but little of the peace and love,-- His Gospel to the poor? 39648 If we can live in Christ and have His life in us, shall not the spiritual balance and proportion which were His become ours too?
39648	No word, once spoken, returneth Even if uttered unwillingly-- Shall God excuse our rashness? 39648 Speaking of ancestors--''What right have I to question them, or judge them, or bring them forward in my life as being responsible for my nature?
39648	The Past is something, but the Present more; Will It not, too, be past? 39648 Trouble is so hard to bear, is it not?
39648	WOULD''ST shape a noble life? 39648 What is it when a child dies?
39648	Why wilt thou defer thy good purpose from day to day? 39648 ''Lord, what hast Thou to do with it?'' 39648 ''Tis but self- pity, pleasant, mean and sly, Low whispering bids the paltry memory live:-- What am I brother for, but to forgive? 39648 And is it not matter of common observation that persons who begin by being Stoics in demeanour end by becoming Stoics in reality?
39648	Are they not almost the staple of our daily happiness?
39648	Aspiration NOVEMBER 2"If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?"
39648	Bereavement SEPTEMBER 3"If we still love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love?"
39648	Bereavement SEPTEMBER 4"Parting and forgetting?
39648	Books DECEMBER 5"But what strange art, what magic can dispose The troubled mind to change its native woes?
39648	But is not temper a constitutional thing?
39648	Could any form of words be more elevated, more persuasive, more alluring?
39648	Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?"
39648	Do they not thrill the heart and strengthen the conscience?
39648	Dost thou condemn Thy brother, looking down, in pride of heart, On each poor wanderer from the fold of Truth?...
39648	Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands?
39648	First, by humility: when a man knows his own weaknesses, why should he be angry with others for pointing them out?
39648	How can we live and think that any one has trouble-- piercing trouble-- and we could help them and never try?"
39648	How does he conduct himself towards women and children?...
39648	If He were really our Master and our Saviour, could it be that we should get so eager and excited over little things?
39648	If I roll back the responsibility to them, had they not fathers?
39648	If every own fault found us out, Dogged us and hedged us round about, What comfort should we take because Not half our due we thus wrung out?
39648	Ill- Nature APRIL 28"HOW is ill- nature to be met and overcome?
39648	Is it not hereditary, a family failing, a matter of temperament, and can_ that_ be cured?
39648	Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
39648	Is not this the exact opposite to the world''s code of morality upon that subject?
39648	It is vain for us to ask,''Am I my brother''s keeper?''
39648	Judging JUNE 27"The sinner''s own fault?
39648	Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?"
39648	Logically, men might be puppets; consciously, they were self- determinating, and Jesus said with emphasis,''Wilt thou?''"
39648	Manifestations of God OCTOBER 6"For how, as a matter of fact, do we grow to know God?
39648	Nay, these failing, is there not left Christian charity?
39648	Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see Others more wretched, more undone than we?
39648	Repentance MAY 31"What is true contrition?
39648	Rest NOVEMBER 10"Now, what is the first step towards the winning of that rest?
39648	Safe in thy immortality, What change can reach the wealth I hold?
39648	Temper APRIL 11"What is temper?
39648	The cricket is not the nightingale; why tell him so?
39648	There shall never be one Lost Good NOVEMBER 3"Therefore to whom turn I but to Thee, the ineffable Name?
39648	Unrequited Love SEPTEMBER 2"Infancy?
39648	We feel( do we not?)
39648	What but that is the thing we want?
39648	What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
39648	What can we do?
39648	What chance can mar the pearl and gold Thy love hath left in trust for me?
39648	What course then did the father take, in the case before us, to pacify the angry passions of his ill- natured son?
39648	What faithful heart can do these?
39648	What if the rose- streak of morning Pale and depart in a passion of tears?
39648	What then should we say of our own heart when we see in it a quite contrary frame of mind?
39648	What, have fear of change from Thee Who art ever the same?
39648	When was I not religious?''
39648	Who does not know the trials which seem peculiar to a break- up, a change in our outward life?
39648	Whoever heard of gluttony doing God''s will, or laziness, or uncleanness, or the man who was careless and wanton of natural life?
39648	Why do we let human malignity embitter us?
39648	Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?
39648	Why should ingratitude, jealousy-- perfidy even-- enrage us?
39648	Why should we mis- know one another, fight not against the enemy, but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform?"
39648	Why should we overstrain ourselves in that which is beyond our strength, or neglect plain duties for others less obvious?
39648	_ Amiel''s Journal._"What are the chief causes of_ Unrest_?
39648	_ Memoir of George Wilson._"The widow''s mite?
39648	and had not their fathers fathers?
39648	remembering thee, Am I not richer than of old?
33349	Hath he said and shall He not do it; hath He promised and shall he not bring it to pass?
33349	Is your face turned towards me?
33349	Mamma, will you hold my hand? 33349 Why do the heathen rage?...
33349	Will you repeat it to me?
33349	=_ The Gentleness of the Shepherd_= How does Jesus answer John?
33349	=_ The Location of the Psalm_= Have you ever noticed just where this Psalm is located?
33349	And by still waters?
33349	And then, in words that were full of suggestive meaning, she added,"If John D. Rockefeller were my father, I would not want, would I?"
33349	Are we not made"always to triumph"over all our foes in Christ?
33349	Are we not made"more than conquerors"in Him who hath"led captivity captive"?
33349	Are we not safe in Him from all our foes?
33349	Are you tossed about, wounded, sick and sore?
33349	Callest Thou thus, O Master, callest Thou thus to me?
33349	Callest Thou thus, O Master, callest Thou thus to me?
33349	Did a dog bite it?
33349	Did it fall into a hole?
33349	Did n''t you know that we were just in the midst of a great game and our side was about to win?
33349	Did not Moses plead thus with God,"If thou dost destroy them, what shall we say to the nations, and what wilt thou do for thine own name''s sake?"
33349	Did you ever hear singing on the water?
33349	Do we not recall what Moses said to Jehovah when He said He thought to destroy the people of Israel?
33349	Do we not remember when we first came to Him as our Saviour, how He forgave, freely and gladly, all our sins, and sent us on our way rejoicing?
33349	Do you desire to come back again to the Shepherd''s care?
33349	Do you want God to come and lay His hand upon some precious one in your family circle to take to be with Himself?
33349	Does He curse the doubter?
33349	Fathers and mothers, are we taking time to"lie down,"to be alone with God in prayer and the reading of His Word?
33349	Fathers and mothers, are you waiting for God to do this?
33349	God was_ making_ this man to"lie down,"do you see?
33349	Has He not deprived death of its sting and stripped the grave of its victim?
33349	Has the family altar in your home been neglected?
33349	Hath He not overcome that old serpent, the Devil?
33349	Hath not Christ abolished death for the believer?
33349	Have you become a wayward sheep?
33349	Have you ever looked into a sheep''s eyes?
33349	Have you ever noted how the word"Lord"is printed in the Bible?
33349	Have you so much to do that you do not have time to"lie down"?
33349	Have you wandered from the fold?
33349	He said,"It is hard to decide?
33349	He said,"My child, do you yield?
33349	How few of us are willing to go alone into the woods whither the Master went, clean forspent, clean forspent?
33349	How was the limb injured?
33349	In pastures green?
33349	Is He yours?
33349	Is He yours?
33349	Is not this a picture of this verse of the Psalm?
33349	Is not this the reason why the tenses of this Psalm are_ present_ tenses?
33349	Is sleep a thing to dread?
33349	Is the way so dark, O wanderer, Is the hillcrest wild and steep, Far, so far, the vale beyond thee, Where the homelights vigil keep?
33349	Is this Shepherd, who loves you,_ yours_?
33349	Is this not true of man also?
33349	Is thy path so rough, O pilgrim, Passing on thy way through life; Deep the sorrows that beset thee, Great the burden, wild the strife?
33349	Is yours?
33349	It begins with the words uttered by Christ on the cross:"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
33349	It seems to me that I can still hear one of the boys calling out in the dark to his mother,"Mamma, are you there?"
33349	It''s dark, is n''t it, Mamma?
33349	John, come with me, wo n''t you?"
33349	Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine; Are they not enough for Thee?
33349	Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and torn?
33349	Lord, whence are those blood- drops all the way That mark out the mountain''s track?
33349	May I impress upon the words_ until he find it_?
33349	On the Rock of Ages founded, Who can shake thy sure repose?
33349	Poor wandering soul, have you fallen by the wayside?
33349	Shall it not be that in that great day not one of Christ''s sheep will be missing?
33349	Strange, is it not, that we will do almost anything but lie down?
33349	The Lord my Shepherd is, I shall be well supplied, Since He is mine and I am His, What can I want beside?
33349	The dear ones left behind?
33349	The girl turned to her mother and said,"Mamma, then you will, wo n''t you?"
33349	The minister, looking upon the pale, haggard face of the sick shepherd boy, asked him tenderly,"Laddie, do you know the Twenty- third Psalm?"
33349	They have said something like this to their mother:"Mother, what did you call us home for anyway?
33349	Was it struck by a stone?
33349	What a world of difference that little word_ my_ makes, does it not?
33349	What are you waiting for?
33349	What does a stupid sheep know of ravines, precipices or haunts of wild beasts?
33349	What is it that lies between two mountains?
33349	What is it?
33349	What is the Twenty- fourth Psalm?
33349	What kind of age will the next be if we neglect these religious privileges?
33349	What should the minister do?
33349	Where is death''s sting?
33349	Where is death''s sting?
33349	Which call should he accept?
33349	Who is this King of glory?
33349	Who placed that ring on your finger?
33349	Who shall strip Him of His power, or rob Him of His sheep?
33349	Why did you do that?"
33349	Why not with happy shout run home when school is out?
33349	Why should it be a wrench, to leave your wooden bench?
33349	Why should you be forlorn?
33349	Why should you fear to meet the thresher of the wheat?
33349	Why that finger?
33349	Will you leave the flowers for the crown?"
33349	Will you please go with me?"
33349	With such a Shepherd, how could we want for anything for time or eternity?
33349	Would you then take time to"lie down"?
33349	You-- man, woman, with all your senses, of strong and sound mind, can you give expression to an exclamation of faith like that?
33349	said the gracious Master,"why turnest thou thus away, When I came through the darkness seeking my sheep that have gone astray?
33349	where, grave, thy victory?
33349	where, grave, thy victory?
29557	Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? 29557 That worthy Name"; who is He?
29557	Whom have I in heaven but Thee? 29557 And do we not want more of it? 29557 And is it so-- I shall be like Thy Son? 29557 And then His eyes opened and in loving tenderness He said unto them,Why are ye so fearful, O ye of little faith?"
29557	And what brought about Ephraim''s conversion?
29557	And what do we behold about us?
29557	And what else do we find here?
29557	And what else?
29557	And where is He dishonored?
29557	And why?
29557	Are days, weeks, perhaps months of wandering your past, days in which you grieved Him?
29557	Are we more devoted to Him?
29557	Are we willing to have it?
29557	But has this changed His Love?
29557	But how is He dishonored and robbed of His Glory?
29557	But is it really so-- all the vain things that charm us most-- we''d sacrifice them to His blood?
29557	But is it so,"and pour contempt on all our pride?"
29557	But is it so?
29557	But the day was to come when Ephraim would willingly forsake all idols and cry out,"What have I any more to do with idols?"
29557	But what does this glorious vision mean to_ us?_ What does it teach us?
29557	But what does this glorious vision mean to_ us?_ What does it teach us?
29557	But what is this fulness of which we receive and receive so abundantly?
29557	But who can begin to tell out what that is, grace upon grace?
29557	But who can tell out what a pre- eminence, the pre- eminence of the Lord Jesus Christ is?
29557	Can we do anything less than to give Him the first place in all things?
29557	Can we truly say the Lord is more precious to our hearts and that we are living more in His presence than ever before?
29557	Do we all enjoy this now in faith?
29557	Do we live in the power of all this?
29557	Do we not need it?
29557	Do you appreciate Him more than ever before?
29557	Do you give Him the pre- eminence to whom God has given the pre- eminence in all things?
29557	Do you have a greater burning desire in your heart for Himself?
29557	Do you live in the daily enjoyment of His love?
29557	Do you often weep over your coldheartedness, your lack of real devotion to Him and communion with your Lord?
29557	Do you sing this Glory song?
29557	Does He, that worthy Name, become more and more day by day the absorbing object of your heart and life?
29557	Does your faith lay hold of this?
29557	Has He become the absorbing object of our hearts and lives?
29557	Has He said the end is near?
29557	Has our unfaithfulness, our waywardness, our failure and backsliding affected His Love?
29557	Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
29557	Have you failed Him?
29557	How can we honor the Beloved One if we have fellowship with that which dishonors Him?
29557	I AM-- what?
29557	If this is real how can we be conformed to this world?
29557	In a day when He, who is worthy, is but little praised, do you praise Him thus?
29557	Is it really so that you enter deeper and deeper into that love which passeth knowledge?
29557	Is it so that the Lord Jesus Christ becomes daily more real and precious to us?
29557	Is not thine a captured heart?
29557	Is the Apostle''s longing cry"that I might know Him"coming also from your heart?
29557	Is the warmth of His Love, the Love of Christ refreshing your soul?
29557	Is this the grace which He for me has won?
29557	Is your cry, dear reader, for more reality in this fellowship?
29557	Is your heart increasingly attracted to that worthy Name?
29557	Lord Jesus, are we one with Thee?
29557	O, child of God, is not thy poor wandering heart beginning to be warmed?
29557	Oh, Jesus, Lord, who loved me like to Thee?
29557	Reader can you add your"Amen"--your,"be it so"to all this?
29557	Shall we ever find out all which the written Word reveals of Himself and His worthiness?
29557	Should we then turn back to it and enjoy its pleasures and ambitions?
29557	The blessed One of God is rejected, can our hearts be satisfied with anything less than being rejected too?
29557	There from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flowed mingled down; Did e''er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
29557	They crown Him King on high; Shall we not crown Him here, The blessed Christ of Calvary, To ransomed sinners dear?
29557	They worship Him above, Shall we not worship too, The Son of God, the Lord of love, To whom all praise is due?
29557	Up there they see His Face, The Lamb who once was slain, And in a new song praise His Grace; Shall we not join the strain?
29557	Was it a frown of displeasure which Peter saw in that beloved face?
29557	Was it a look of reproach?
29557	What could be more lamentable?
29557	What happened?
29557	What has stript the seeming beauty From the idols of the earth?
29557	What have I to Do With idols?
29557	What have I to do any more with idols?
29557	What is to be our attitude?
29557	What it all will mean?
29557	What judgments will fall then upon a wicked world and be meted out upon the enemies of Christ?
29557	What then is necessary?
29557	What then is the doctrine of Christ?
29557	What will it be when His Patience is ended?
29557	What will it be when the kingdom and the Patience of Jesus Christ give way to the kingdom and Glory of Jesus Christ?
29557	What will it mean when His Patience is ended?
29557	Who can describe it?
29557	Who can fathom these names?
29557	Who can tell out His worth?
29557	Who discards the garb of winter Till the summer has begun?
29557	Who extinguishes their taper Till they hail the rising sun?
29557	Who is Elias?
29557	Who is Moses?
29557	Who is this King of Glory?
29557	Why are Christians half- hearted, conformed to this present evil age, given to covetousness, which is idolatry( Col. iii:5)?
29557	Why are God''s people joined to idols?
29557	Why do real Christians, who know the truth and even know and speak of His Second Coming go along with the world and delight in its ways?
29557	Why should He repeat the same greeting?
29557	Will it ever stop?
37292	Children,He asks,"have ye any meat?"
37292	--_Selected._= April 15th.=_ Could ye not watch with me one hour?
37292	--_Selected._= December 11th.=_ What is your life?
37292	10._ Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame?
37292	10._ Why was this?
37292	13._ Why?
37292	14, 23._ Do we, like Him, combine the two great elements of human character?
37292	14._ O my soul, is not this enough?
37292	18._ Believer, you are anticipating the time when you shall join the saints above in ascribing all glory to Jesus; but are you glorifying Him_ now_?
37292	18._ Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge now?
37292	2._ And how is that to be done?
37292	2._ Dost thou want nothing?
37292	2._ Have we no garments of blue, and purple, and beautiful suggestiveness?
37292	26._ What is thy_ season_ this morning?
37292	27._ Unbelief says,"How can such and such things be?"
37292	28._ Is not God always acting thus?
37292	29._"Who is thy neighbor?"
37292	4._ Are you where God would have you be?
37292	4._ Was the work of the Master indeed done?
37292	9._ Art thou hiding thyself away from Him who would send thee forth to do His own blessed work in His own way?
37292	Am I progressing in it?
37292	And have we no golden bells?
37292	And have we no ornaments?
37292	And he cried out from the steeple:"Where art thou, Lord?"
37292	And where are they not set?
37292	And wherefore does God act thus?
37292	Are our_ public_ duties, the cares, and business, and engrossments of the world, finely tempered and hallowed by a_ secret_ walk with God?
37292	Are there not others who would dry their tears if we would remind them of past joys, when we were poor as they are now?
37292	Are there not those who would taste the joys of heaven if we wrote them words of forgiveness and affection?
37292	Are we being embraced by the world by its honors, its pleasures, its applause?
37292	Are we compromising with the enemies of God?
37292	Art thou remembering thy double parentage, and therefore thy double duty?
37292	Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire beside?
37292	But let the song of the bird cease, and the fruit of the tree fall; and will my heart still go on to sing?
37292	By bearing"leaves,"--a_ profession_ of love for Him?
37292	By bearing_ some_ fruit?
37292	Canst thou meet in contact with the sinful and be thyself undefiled?
37292	Canst thou touch the vile and polluted ones of earth and retain thy garments pure?
37292	Canst thou walk in white through the stained thoroughfares of men?
37292	Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures?
37292	Did you lose Christ by sin?
37292	Didst thou ever consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah, when God the Father equipped His Son for the great enterprise of mercy?
37292	Do I feel some dawnings of the heavenly light, earnests and antepasts of the full day of glory?
37292	Do not little strokes fell lofty oaks?
37292	Do not the little foxes spoil the grapes?
37292	Do we not need the new sense of Christ''s presence in our hearts and the joys of the Holy Ghost?
37292	Do you not see it dotted with ten thousand blessings in disguise?
37292	Do you want to speak for Jesus to those around you?
37292	Does not that voice come to us?
37292	Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the united Trinity?
37292	Doth not the tiny coral insect build a rock which wrecks a navy?
37292	Has not Infinite Love encircled every event with its everlasting arms, and gilded every cloud with its merciful lining?
37292	Has your life helped you to do that?
37292	Hast thou no mercy to ask of God?
37292	Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer?
37292	Have you made up your mind that you will follow your Master everywhere else, save when he ascends the path that leads to the cross?
37292	How are the two to be connected?
37292	How can He go till He has healed the Magdalene''s broken heart?
37292	How can this be done?
37292	How was this?
37292	If the world were to follow us from its busy thoroughfares, would it trace us to our family altars and our closet devotions?
37292	If we often require the sharp blasts of trial to develop our graces, do we not also need the warm south breezes of His mercy?
37292	Is Christ born in thee?
37292	Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds?
37292	Is it adding joy to other men''s lives?
37292	Is it not a poison?
37292	Is it not written of the Son of Man that"as He_ prayed_ the fashion of His countenance was altered"?
37292	Is it the season of drought?
37292	Is not this the miracle of cleansing which our spirits need in such a world as this?
37292	Is so commonplace a scene as the life of the family circle fit to be a temple for the service of God?
37292	Is so narrow a sphere worthy to be the object of faith?
37292	Is that a reason why you should avoid or not undertake the duty?
37292	Is that your religion?
37292	Is the King''s image visibly, permanently, stamped upon us?
37292	Is there no holy of holies where thou canst catch a glow of impulse that will make thee strong?
37292	Is there no secret pavilion into which thou canst go and warm thyself?
37292	Is there not work waiting for us-- work that no one else can do-- work, too, that the Master has promised to help us perform?
37292	Is thy life like that manger-- precious as a casket, because of what it holds?
37292	Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
37292	Let us, then, take all our perplexities to Him and say,"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"
37292	May we not find a great truth in the very position in which God placed His chosen people?
37292	McLaren._= January 27th.=_ Are there not twelve hours in the day?
37292	My soul, art thou living up to thy twofold origin?
37292	Now the question is this-- How can these two be reconciled?
37292	O my soul, wouldst thou have thy life glorified, beautified, transfigured to the eyes of men?
37292	Of what use is a"seal"if it can not be seen?
37292	Oh, has not Jesus stood at your side when you knew it not?
37292	Or shall the Son of Righteousness, when He appears, find us waiting, as that painter waited, looking and longing for the first gleam of day?
37292	Shall He come and find that we still sleep?
37292	Sin, a little thing?
37292	Sin, a little thing?
37292	Sin, a_ little_ thing?
37292	The ark was a great undertaking, but what was it undertaken for?
37292	They are compelled to bear the cross, but how does it come?
37292	Was not its heaviest task yet to come?
37292	Was, then, my divine command a delusion?
37292	What are you building inside it?
37292	What does this teach us?
37292	What doubt is there that will not be slain by this two- edged sword?
37292	What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God''s covenant?
37292	What is our pen doing?
37292	What kind of a structure will be disclosed when the scaffolding is knocked away?
37292	What, then, of the majesty all about us, heights, and depths, and wonders?
37292	Who knows its deadliness?
37292	Why did He say that His work was done?
37292	Why dost thou not retire oftener with thyself?
37292	Will I help to bear His cross up the Via Dolorosa?
37292	Will I love Him in His own night?
37292	Will I stand in God''s house by night?
37292	Will I watch with Him even one hour in His Gethsemane?
37292	Will not continual droppings wear away stones?
37292	Yea, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat hath no power?
37292	You ask,"What can I do?"
37292	You have for your security His exceeding great and precious promises, and may say with the psalmist,"Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
37292	and why art thou disquieted within me?
37292	but would we dally, go back?
37292	have not I sent thee?
37292	that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
37292	v. 5._ Is it not one of the difficulties of church work that we have more officers than men?
37292	ye who sigh and languish, and mourn your lack of power, Heed ye this gentle whisper,"Could ye not watch one hour?"
14849	And is mine one?
14849	''Twas doing nothing was his curse-- Is there a vice can plague us worse?
14849	A common friendship-- who talks of a common friendship?
14849	A useless flint o''er which the waters flow?
14849	All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty: What further may be sought for or declared?
14849	All the world cries,"Where is the man who will save us?"
14849	Am I wrong to be always so happy?
14849	And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?
14849	And do our loves all perish with our frames?
14849	And dost thou hear the word ere it be spoken, And apprehend love''s presence by its power?
14849	And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
14849	And it is n''t the fact that you''re hurt that counts, But only-- how did you take it?
14849	And loved so well a high behavior, In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained, Nobility more noble to repay?
14849	And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
14849	And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?
14849	And thou sayest, What doth God know?
14849	And what of that?
14849	And where are thy playmates now, O man of sober brow?
14849	And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
14849	And who will walk a mile with me Along life''s weary way?
14849	And why art thou disquieted within me?
14849	Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?
14849	Are not ye of much more value than they?
14849	Are the stars too distant?
14849	Are you in earnest?
14849	Art little?
14849	At rich men''s tables eaten bread and pulse?
14849	But he is in one mind, and who can turn him?
14849	But the little daughter whispered, As she took his icy hand,"Is n''t God upon the ocean, Just the same as on the land?"
14849	But what if I fail of my purpose here?
14849	But whoso hath the world''s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
14849	Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs?
14849	Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14849	Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee?
14849	Can you add to that line That he lived for it too?
14849	Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of the boughs shall be?
14849	Didst fancy life was spent on beds of ease, Fluttering the rose- leaves scattered by the breeze?
14849	Didst fondly dream the sun would never set?
14849	Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?
14849	Dost fear to lose thy way?
14849	Doth God exact day labor, light denied?
14849	Exceeding peace made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said,"What writest thou?"
14849	Feeling the way-- and if the way is cold, What matter?
14849	For doth not that rightly seem to be lost which is given to one ungrateful?
14849	For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
14849	George W. F. Hegel born 1770. Who are thy playmates, boy?
14849	God will not seek thy race, Nor will he ask thy birth; Alone he will demand of thee, What hast thou done on earth?
14849	Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
14849	Have we not darkened and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
14849	Have we not groveled here long enough eating and drinking like mere brutes?
14849	Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
14849	Have you an ancient wound?
14849	Having eyes, see ye not?
14849	He said:"My child, do you yield?
14849	He went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
14849	How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?
14849	How many smiles?--a score?
14849	How to constitute oneself a man?
14849	I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come?
14849	If a man die, shall he live again?
14849	If heard aright It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
14849	If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy?
14849	In the hour of distress and misery the eye of every mortal turns to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is your want?
14849	Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
14849	Is life a noxious weed which whirlwinds sow?
14849	Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
14849	Is n''t it interesting to get blamed for everything?
14849	Is not God in the height of heaven?
14849	Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
14849	It is not worth the keeping: let it go: But shall it?
14849	Josephine born 1763 Could we by a wish Have what we will and get the future now, Would we wish aught done undone in the past?
14849	Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God?
14849	Look full into thy spirit''s self, The world of mystery scan; What if thy way to faith in God Should lie through faith in man?
14849	Loved the wild rose, and left it on the stalk?
14849	NOVEMBER Who said November''s face was grim?
14849	O God, can I not save One from the pitiless wave?
14849	Say, dost thou understand the whispered token, The promise breathed from every leaf and flower?
14849	Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?
14849	Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights at my side, In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
14849	Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar as me?
14849	Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession?
14849	Shall days spring up as wild vines grow, Unheeding where they climb or cling?
14849	Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?
14849	Shall we have ears on the stretch for the footfalls of sorrow that never come, but be deaf to the whirr of the wings of happiness that fill all space?
14849	Summer and flowers are far away; Gloomy old Winter is king to- day; Buds will not blow, and sun will not shine: What shall I do for a valentine?
14849	Temptation sharp?
14849	The great Gods pass through the great Time- hall; Who can see?
14849	Then why, my soul, dost thou complain?
14849	Then why, my soul, dost thou complain?
14849	There is sunshine without and within me, and how should I mope or be sad?
14849	Though you have but a little room, do you fancy that God is not there, too, and it is impossible to live therein a life that shall be somewhat lofty?
14849	Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite?
14849	Unarmed faced danger with a heart of trust?
14849	Was it hard for him?
14849	Was it thus that he plodded ahead, Never turning aside?
14849	Was the trial sore?
14849	Well, what of that?
14849	Well, what of that?
14849	What do you live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
14849	What doctor possesses such curative resources as those latent in a single ray of hope?
14849	What does your anxiety do?
14849	What have you done with your soul, my friend?
14849	What if no bird through the pearl rain is soaring?
14849	What if no blossom looks upward adoring?
14849	What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
14849	What is the essence and life of character?
14849	What is your life?
14849	What shall we do with it?
14849	What though to- night wrecks you and me If so to- morrow saves?
14849	What would be the use of immortality for a person who can not use well half an hour?
14849	What''s hallowed ground?
14849	When I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of high genius, the first question I ask about him is always-- Does he work?
14849	When the heart overflows with gratitude or with other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance?
14849	Whence comest thou?"
14849	Where else can we live?
14849	Who is the happiest person?
14849	Who is wise and understanding among you?
14849	Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this?
14849	Who said her voice was harsh and sad?
14849	Who stands ready to act again and always in the spirit of this day of reunion and hope and patriotic fervor?
14849	Who would fail, for a pause too early?
14849	Who would fail, for one step withholden?
14849	Who would fail, for one word unsaid?
14849	Who would not rather have a right to immortality than to be immortal without a right to be?
14849	Whose heart hath ne''er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand?
14849	Why are we so glad to talk and take our turns to prattle, when so rarely we get back to the stronghold of our silence with an unwounded conscience?
14849	Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
14849	Why comes temptation but for a man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
14849	Why comest thou?"
14849	Why drooping seek the dark recess?
14849	Why drooping seek the dark recess?
14849	Why, why repine, my pensive friend, At pleasures slipped away?
14849	Will ye leave the flowers for the crown?"
14849	are they thine, When round thy brow the wreaths of glory shine; While rapture gazes on thy radiant way,''Midst the bright realms of clear mental day?
14849	each a space Of some few yards before his face; Does that the whole wide plan explain?
14849	little loveliest lady mine, What shall I send for your valentine?
14849	what do we see?
14849	when the eve is cool?
27852	Mother,asked a child,"since nothing is ever lost, where do all our thoughts go?"
27852	You are never out of temper,was once said to a woman well known to be much tried at home;"is it that you do not feel the injustice, the annoyances?"
27852	***** Is_ Passionately_ the word you long for?
27852	***** Then if we_ are_ slighted, misunderstood, maligned, or persecuted, what does it matter?
27852	***** WHAT WILL BE MY CROSS TO- DAY?
27852	***** Why weep, my child?
27852	*****_ Hast thou no favors to ask of Me?_ Give Me, if thou wilt, a list of all thy desires, all the wants of thy soul.
27852	*****_ Hast thou no interests which occupy thy mind?_ Tell Me of them all.... Of thy vocation.
27852	--"You have, then, some special balm?"
27852	A disappointment?
27852	A fresh rending of the heart?
27852	After all... these little troubles, looked at calmly, what are they?
27852	Am_ I_ the type of all that is beautiful and right?
27852	And for Me hast thou no ardor?
27852	And how do you prove to Him your love?
27852	And why not?
27852	Are there around thee those seemingly less devout than formerly, whose coldness or indifference have estranged thee from them without real cause?...
27852	Are there many who try to be of some little help or comfort to the souls with whom they are brought in contact through life?
27852	Are they not very much to be pitied?
27852	Are those around you wicked?
27852	Are you discouraged?
27852	Are you full of peace?
27852	Are you tempted?
27852	BENEATH THE EYE OF GOD, GOD ONLY As you read these words, are you not conscious of an inward feeling of peace and quietness?
27852	Beneath GOD''S protecting Hand, is it possible that you can be sorrowful, fearful, unhappy?
27852	But is not this a worry, a continual torment?
27852	Can you not hear GOD''S Voice speaking to you?
27852	Did JESUS CHRIST hesitate to die for you?
27852	Do we help him, unseen, towards that act of charity, humiliation, or self- renunciation?
27852	Do we pray to GOD that this soul may become humble, pure, devoted?
27852	Do we take as much pains to procure him the little devotional book that will really help him, as we should to obtain a transient pleasure?
27852	Do you believe harm was intended?
27852	Do you know what you have gained?
27852	Do you long at each Communion to receive the grace bestowed by CHRIST that shall little by little fit you for heaven hereafter?
27852	Do you not feel moved, as if your whole being in these words went forth to GOD, offering to Him life itself?
27852	Do you not feel something soothing and consoling in these thoughts?
27852	Do you wish to live at peace with all the world?
27852	Do your duty as well as you can, as you understand it, as it is given to you; say sometimes to GOD,"My Master, art Thou satisfied with me?"
27852	Does it seem too hard for you?
27852	Does not GOD love us?
27852	Does not this simple thought explain the reason that there is often so little result from our frequent Communions?
27852	Does the future in its turn seem to frighten me?
27852	Does the past sometimes rise up to trouble me with the thought of the many years spent without GOD?
27852	Dost thou not desire to do some good to the souls of those thou lovest, but who are forgetful of Me?
27852	During the week has not the heart been wearied with petty strife and discontent, interests marred, bitter words?
27852	Each has a mission to fulfil; and as it comes from GOD, why not let it be accomplished in peace?
27852	For what reason?
27852	Has not GOD promised His pardon for His blessed SON''S sake, to all who truly repent and unfeignedly believe His Holy Gospel?
27852	Have I made a full avowal and entire submission?
27852	Have I more faith in GOD, and more calmness and resignation in all the events of life?
27852	Have I not always opportunity to give?
27852	Have we courage not to spare the soul the trial that we know will purify?
27852	Have you any further doubts?
27852	Have you fallen?
27852	Have you reckoned the number of minutes that have elapsed since your birth?
27852	He is with you, and to retain Him close, Who is all Purity, will you not be more modest in your behavior?
27852	He says:_ Continue another half- hour the work that wearies thee_; and you would stop?
27852	He says:_ Do not that_; and you do it?
27852	He says:_ Let us tread together the path of obedience_; and you answer: No?
27852	Humiliation?
27852	I smile at the foolish fancies of my imagination; is not my future in GOD''S Hands?
27852	If so, is it not the greater merit?
27852	If your duty seems almost_ impossible_ to fulfil, ask yourself,"Is this GOD''S Will for me?"
27852	Is all this_ nothing_?
27852	Is it Thy Will that lonely and sorrowful I am left on earth, while those I loved have gone to dwell near Thee above?
27852	Is it not absurd to think that because another acts and thinks differently to myself, he must needs be wrong?
27852	Is not this thought one to make you tremble?
27852	Is there not a thought in this that should make us reflect?
27852	Listen to the story of a simple shepherd, given in his own words:"I forget now who it was that once said to me,''Jean Baptiste, you are very poor?''
27852	Make them the subject of our morning prayers, and say to ourselves, Here is my daily cross, do I accept willingly?
27852	My child, tell Me of all thy weariness_: who has grieved thee?
27852	My friend, do you know why the work you accomplish fails either to give pleasure to yourself or others?
27852	Not to bestow thine affection on one who is not devout, and whose presence steals the peace from thy soul?
27852	One more solemn thought: How old are you?
27852	Poor child, why do you tell a flower the thought that troubles you?
27852	Provocation?
27852	SATURDAY EARNESTNESS You love GOD, do you not, dear one, whom GOD surrounds with so much affection?
27852	Shall I see myself misjudged, falsely suspected, despised?
27852	Sufferings?
27852	THE POWER OF AN ACT OF LOVE TOWARDS GOD Have you ever reflected upon this?
27852	The thought of GOD is never wearisome; why not always cherish it?
27852	Then to whom can I speak of Thee this day?
27852	Then, why not shake off all this, that only chills affection?
27852	To be constantly employed, and never asking,"What shall I do?"
27852	To spare them trouble, we sacrifice our own ease and enjoyment.... Oh, that is all very beautiful, very right; but what should we do for the soul?
27852	To whom do you owe all this?
27852	What counsels can I give?
27852	What does it signify if some unexpected command upsets all my previous plans?
27852	What dost thou desire?
27852	What dost thou think?
27852	What is so often the one thing wanting to some devout person devoted to doing good?
27852	What matters the tone or the harshness of the order?
27852	What moments may I seize, in which, without wounding the feelings, or parading my zeal, I may be allowed to speak a few words of piety?
27852	What must I suffer, LORD?
27852	What wilt Thou send me to- day?
27852	What wouldst thou this day, My child?...
27852	When have I ever been more_ zealous in labor_ than those days when I had fulfilled all my religious duties?
27852	When have I felt_ more free, more happy_, than when having fulfilled all the duties of my social position?
27852	When more_ loving and devoted_ than on the days of my Communions?
27852	Which of us have not felt the same?
27852	Who can describe all the joy, strength, and consolation it reveals?
27852	Who is anxious for a beloved one''s eternal welfare?
27852	Whom wouldst thou have to help thee?
27852	Why be anxious about the future?
27852	Why cause any one pain?
27852	Why imagine evil intentions against yourself?
27852	Why need I be disquieted?
27852	Why not prepare the heart, even as we do the body?
27852	Will you, receiving thus the GOD of_ Peace_ within, have for those around you kind words that shall fill them with calmness, resignation, and peace?
27852	Wilt thou go now and be loving and forbearing towards one who has vexed thee?...
27852	Would you be at peace with your conscience?
27852	Would you become holy?
27852	Would you call it_ torture_ or_ constraint_, the energy with which you shatter some poisoned cup you were almost enticed to drink?
27852	Would you live peaceably with the members of your family, above all with those who exercise a certain control of you?
27852	Would your mother have given you a bitter dose merely for the sake of causing you suffering?
27852	Wouldst thou give pleasure to thy mother, thy family, those in authority over thee?
27852	_ Art thou fearful of the future?_ Is there in thy heart that vague dread that thou canst not define, but which nevertheless torments thee?
27852	_ Art thou fearful of the future?_ Is there in thy heart that vague dread that thou canst not define, but which nevertheless torments thee?
27852	_ Art thou resolved to avoid all occasions of sin?_ To renounce that which tempts thee; never again to open the book that excites thine imagination?
27852	_ Art thou resolved to avoid all occasions of sin?_ To renounce that which tempts thee; never again to open the book that excites thine imagination?
27852	_ Hast thou no promises to make to Me?_ I can read thy heart; thou knowest it; thou mayst deceive man, but thou canst never deceive God.
27852	_ Leave my friend always at liberty to think and act for himself in matters of little importance._ Why compel him to think and act with me?
27852	am I better?
27852	am I happier?
27852	and am I not willing to fulfil whatever I am advised in GOD''S Name to do for the future?
27852	can I never recall them?
27852	can not you see how the thought troubles and disquiets you?
27852	have you no mother?
27852	have you not GOD to prepare it for you, as tenderly as eighteen years ago your mother prepared your cradle?
27852	how can those live peacefully who never pray?
27852	however heavy may be the burden you have to bear, does it not at once become light beneath the gaze of that FATHER''S eye?
27852	if I try to please and imitate Thee thus, wilt Thou indeed bless me?
27852	is it because this word does not please you?
27852	no doubt the shame and grief are sharp and keen, but why need they disturb my peace of mind?
27852	then what more can I do, good angel, thus addressing me, what can I do to show my love to GOD?
27852	to thank?
27852	treated thee with contempt?
27852	what dost Thou require of me to- day?
27852	what matters then ingratitude, forgetfulness, contempt, and scorn?
27852	what wouldst thou do for them?
27852	when He says:_ Bear this, I am here to aid thee_; you will refuse?
27852	who can tell all that passes between the soul and its GOD?
27852	why always such seeking for some one to_ see_ me, to_ understand_,_ appreciate_,_ praise_ me?
27852	wounded thy self- love?
38965	How shall this be done,and yet my vow be left intact?
38965	How shall this be done?
38965	How shall we sing in a strange land?
38965	Whence is this to me, that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?
38965	Who is My Mother?
38965	Who is She?
38965	Who is She?
38965	Who is she that cometh up from the desert?
38965	Who is she?
38965	Who is she?
38965	Who is she?
38965	Who is she?
38965	Who is she?
38965	Why hast Thou done so?
38965	("_ How shall this be done?_") 23 7.
38965	("_ Son, why hast Thou done so to us?_") 65 18.
38965	(_ Introit for the Feast of the Assumption._) What were the causes of their joy?
38965	All those to whom He appeared would take it for granted that His Mother had seen Him-- why write down a thing that everybody knew?
38965	Am I in_ haste_ to perform acts of charity, especially when the request for them comes at inconvenient moments?
38965	Am I prepared to ratify this offering that my Elder Brother made in my name?
38965	Am I ready to give them up to Him to Whom they belong when He asks for them?
38965	Am I ready to make my sacrifice-- even a blind one-- ready to say:_ Ecce adsum_--"Behold, here I am"--and to trust where I can not understand?
38965	Am I, like Mary, absolutely faithful to any contract that I may have made with GOD?
38965	And He answers:"Did you not know that I must be about My Father''s business?"
38965	And do I regard it as something precious, consecrated and dedicated, GOD''S Temple, His own dwelling- place?
38965	And during those long years-- according to some opinions fifteen, to others, twenty- three-- what was Mary''s strength?
38965	And if Mary turned and said:"Yes, my child, what is it?"
38965	And it is the same flame of love which now impels her to speak:"How shall this be done?"
38965	And shall not I, too, take an interest in this wondrous Treasury?
38965	And what about JESUS?
38965	And what about Mary''s joy?
38965	And what is such an effectual barrier to sympathy as the feeling that we are not understood?
38965	And what was Mary''s part?
38965	And what will be my position there?
38965	Are my affections set on things above, where JESUS and Mary are?
38965	Are not all such things as these a part of it?
38965	Are these great things possible for me?
38965	As soon as I know that whatever is being asked of me is the Holy Spirit''s doing, am I at rest?
38965	Before I go on, let me ask myself to what extent I am copying my Mother in at once passing on to GOD all praise that may come to me?
38965	But are we not making Mary almost equal with her Son?
38965	But what is It to those who know?
38965	Can I, sweet Mother of Sorrows, pour balm into that terrible wound?
38965	Can it be that they do not believe that GOD did great things for her?
38965	Can it be that they refuse to listen to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit Who tells them that Mary is blessed among women?
38965	Could any gulf be wider?
38965	Could not her intercession for the Church have been even more effectual had she been close to her Son''s throne in Heaven?
38965	Could she not have been the Mother of Good Counsel in Heaven for those who had to guide the Church in its infancy, as she has been ever since?
38965	Did Mary receive the Last Sacraments?
38965	Do I always take JESUS with me when I go to visit my friends?
38965	Do I follow my Mother''s example in this?
38965	Do I in my times of desolation turn instinctively to His House, where I know that He is hidden?
38965	Do I love to hear about my own country?
38965	Do I realise that this makes my body holy?
38965	Do I say:"How can this be done?"
38965	Do I tell my Mother of all the difficulties of the way and allow her to console me with stories of the Homeland?
38965	Do those whom I visit feel that I create an atmosphere-- an atmosphere which makes them more ready to bless JESUS and Mary?
38965	Does it almost weary me to have such perfection given me to copy?
38965	Does it seem impossible?
38965	Does my happiness, even in the midst of trial, make others understand what great things GOD_ can_ do for those who love Him?
38965	Does not everything in the house speak of Him?
38965	Does she sit still and mourn over the days that are gone?
38965	Does the joy that is in my heart show itself in my countenance, in my manner, in my actions, and sometimes perhaps in my words?
38965	Does the mother mind the sighs?
38965	For the third time the Angels ask the question:"Who is she that cometh up from the desert flowing with delights, leaning upon her Beloved?"
38965	GOD gave His reasons this time-- but when He does not, what then?
38965	Have I any right to claim the privileges?
38965	Have things of earth no attraction for me in comparison with heavenly things?
38965	How can I be like JESUS, and a child of thine without it?
38965	How can I do this or that_ here_?
38965	How comes it that there is no sorrow with which the Heart of Mary can not sympathise?
38965	How could Joseph bear to have suspicions of his wife, whom he considered to be purity itself, and whom he loved so tenderly?
38965	How did Mary win the Victor''s crown?
38965	How does Mary act?
38965	How far am I like her?
38965	How far am I like my Mother in this?
38965	How far do I copy my Mother in this?
38965	How is it that"never is it heard of that her children turn to her in vain"?
38965	How is it with me?
38965	How often I say it!--_Hail Mary!_ What do I mean by it?
38965	How was Mary transformed?
38965	How was the world transformed?
38965	If I know that He is there, why need I trouble so much about the ups and downs?
38965	If my salvation cost JESUS and Mary so much, ought it not to cost me something too?
38965	Is it my first motive and object?
38965	Is it not just because of this flame of communicating love?
38965	Is it so?
38965	Is it so?
38965	Is my whole heart in Heaven because my treasure is there?
38965	Is not this something like my_ Hail Maries_ carelessly and lightly said?
38965	Is there any use in crying for re- admittance?
38965	Is there anything in which I can copy her in her visit to her cousin Elizabeth?
38965	It was certainly_ love_ that prompted the word, but in what sense was it a_ transforming_ love?
38965	Let me answer my question by another:_ Could_ GOD do otherwise?
38965	Mary had more reason to hope than many others, for was she not of the tribe of Judah, and of the House of David?
38965	Mary''s Fifth Word"_ And His Mother said to Him: Son, why hast Thou done so to us?
38965	Mary''s First Word"_ And Mary said to the Angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man?_"( St Luke i.
38965	May not another reason have been in order that she might be the_ better able to sympathise_ with the exiled children of Eve(_ exules filii Evæ_)?
38965	O Mother of fair love, why do the poor banished children of Eve so continually turn to thee?
38965	Of what, then, did Mary die?
38965	Or is she disappointed to find that her child''s thoughts are not really with her at all?
38965	She knew that He would rise again-- but would she see Him?
38965	She says straight out what she is feeling, with that holy familiarity to which her love gives her a right:"Son, why hast Thou done so to us?
38965	That is: Who is she who is adorned with all possible graces and virtues?
38965	This was Mary''s sacrifice-- but what is her part in the Sacrifice that her Son is offering to His Father for the world''s redemption?
38965	To what extent have I taken this word seriously?
38965	To what extent is this_ flamma amoris compatientis_ burning in me?
38965	To whom, then, is it more natural for the poor banished children of Eve to turn than to the Mother whose one idea is to get them back?
38965	Was it just before the War in Heaven, when He revealed His plans to the first creatures of His Hands?
38965	Was it not just what they wanted?
38965	Was it on the day of the Holy and Immaculate Conception?
38965	Was it when He spoke to our first parents of"the seed of the woman"?
38965	Was the birth of this little one so different from any other?
38965	What about our sacrifice?
38965	What did our Lord do with His interruption, which was a very real one, and far more disturbing than are many of ours of which we complain so readily?
38965	What do I know of this flame of joyful love?
38965	What does He do?
38965	What does Mary''s death say to me?
38965	What does it mean-- this word"_ Ave_,"_ Hail!_ with which Gabriel begins his message?
38965	What does it mean?
38965	What have I got to do, then, in the matter?
38965	What have_ I_ got to do as an exile?
38965	What is the secret, then, of suffering?
38965	What is this ark sanctified by GOD but Mary''s body, of which the Son of GOD took flesh?
38965	What is to decide whether I get it or not?
38965	What made those Communions so intense?
38965	What position shall I earn?
38965	What was JESUS to Mary in the land of her exile?
38965	What was it that gave her an almost superhuman courage?
38965	What, then, must have been the measure with which Mary was"filled with the Holy Ghost,"for what was the Apostles''work compared with hers?
38965	When did GOD begin to prepare His Tabernacle?
38965	When she turns at my_ Hail!_ to ask me for something, does she always get it?
38965	Where can I get it?
38965	Who had a greater right to know it than Mary, through whose means the Incarnation took place?
38965	Who is My mother?
38965	Who is my Mother?
38965	Who is this but the Queen of Heaven clothed with her glorious body of immortality?
38965	Why are the Angels so full of interest?
38965	Why is mine so precious?
38965	Why was Abraham called the friend of GOD?
38965	Why was Mary''s body so precious?
38965	Why was her body not left in the tomb?
38965	Why was it?
38965	Why, then, has He done so?
38965	Why, then, should Mary die?
38965	Why?
38965	Why?
38965	Why?
38965	Why?
38965	Why?
38965	Why?
38965	Why?
38965	Would He come to her?
38965	Would it be better not to say it at all, than to risk any want of respect to that Mother whom I love so dearly?
38965	Would it be fair if all were easy and smooth for me?
38965	Would it be worthy of Himself if He were to give me anything less than a_ perfect_ copy?
38965	Would not the Beatific Vision in Heaven have been better than her Communions on earth?
38965	_ 1st Prelude._ The Angels asking three times:"Who is she?"
38965	_ Colloquy_ with Mary, asking her to obtain for me the grace to say with her:"How shall this be done?"
38965	_ Point I._--"WHO IS SHE?"
38965	_ Point I._--THE ANGELS What does it all mean?
38965	_ Point I._--THE PREPARATION OF THE TABERNACLE Why should Mary be called a Tabernacle?
38965	_ Point II._--"WHO IS SHE?"
38965	_ Point II._--FULL OF GRACE How is Mary full of grace?
38965	_ Point II._--THE HOLY TABERNACLE What was it?
38965	_ Point II._--THE REASON FOR MARY''S EXILE Why did her Son leave her behind to suffer so intensely, as He well knew she would, from the separation?
38965	_ Point III._--"WHO IS SHE?"
38965	_ Point III._--A LESSON ON RELATIONSHIPS To the interrupter He said:"Who is My mother?
38965	_ Resolution._ To ask myself the question often to- day:"Who is she?"
38965	_ Spiritual Bouquet._"How shall this be done?"
38965	_ Spiritual Bouquet._"Why hast Thou done so to us?"
38965	and who are My brethren?"
38965	should I know?
38965	that it was of me that He thought and to me that He spoke?
39223	Art thou the Christ?
39223	But John stayed Him, saying: I ought to be baptized by Thee, and comest Thou to me?
39223	If Thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand it?
39223	Lord when did we see Thee... in prison?
39223	Master, where dwellest Thou?
39223	The inheritance of the Lord,what is it?
39223	What shall I ask?
39223	What shall I render?
39223	What went you out in the desert to see?
39223	What went you out into the desert to see? 39223 What went you out to see?"
39223	Where is He that is born King of the Jews?
39223	Who is sufficient for these things?
39223	Who is sufficient for these things?
39223	Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the voice of His servant, that hath walked in darkness and hath no light? 39223 _ Learn of Me._"What am I to learn?
39223	_ You did it to Me._And all the rest that have no labels?
39223	10), is it not enough?
39223	A man clothed in soft garments?
39223	A man clothed in soft garments?
39223	A prophet?
39223	A prophet?
39223	A reed shaken with the wind?
39223	A reed shaken with the wind?"
39223	All are very familiar and bring back for the most part happy memories, but some of them seem to be labelled.--What is it that is written across them?
39223	All can witness to my presence, how many can witness also to my sins?
39223	Am I afraid at the sterner aspect which things seem to have taken?
39223	Am I continually holding converse with Him, telling Him all that is in my heart?
39223	Am I going to pose as a martyr, craving for and expecting every one''s sympathy?
39223	Am I going to put difficulties in the way of those who succeed me, and make it hard for those to whom it has been my privilege to minister?
39223	Am I helping His poor, tending His sick, instructing His ignorant, bringing Home His sheep, loving His little ones, comforting His sorrowful ones?
39223	Am I on it?
39223	Am I patient with souls, patient with myself, patient above all when God says:_ Wait_, do nothing?
39223	Am I really persuaded that I am only here to make Him manifest?
39223	Am I to consider all the sins of my life?
39223	Am I to turn away sadly then from Mary this time, saying: It is too hard for me, I can not copy thy Son here?
39223	Am I trying to look at the world with the eyes of love with which He regarded it, when He first made Himself incarnate for it?
39223	And Joseph?
39223	And do they lose in the transaction?
39223	And what about the thanksgiving?
39223	And what have the waters of Jordan to say?
39223	And what is the way of peace but the way of_ faith_, which He is coming to light up?
39223	And what was that?
39223	And what was the means whereby all this joy was given to the Blessed Trinity?
39223	And what were their conclusions?
39223	And who could be a better Judge of how the laws are kept than He Who made them?
39223	Are all my desires centred on the little One Who is coming?
39223	Are my joy and my peace so great that nothing has the power to touch them?
39223	Are these words of St. Paul true about me?
39223	Are we to be discouraged, to dread them, to say we are sure to fall again, and thus give the enemy a hold over us?
39223	Art Thou really the one desire of my heart, around which all my hopes centre?
39223	Art thou Elias?
39223	Art thou the prophet?
39223	As the great day approaches is my interior life becoming more intense?
39223	Because He prefers_ little_ things?
39223	Because the Roman Emperor wanted to know the number of the subjects in his vast empire just to satisfy his ambition?
39223	But could not God have devised means to send Mary to Bethlehem without disturbing the whole world?
39223	But does He, the God of infinite mercy and plenteous redemption, never look at my pictures?
39223	But how can I be sure that the darkness is permitted by Him?
39223	But how can I hope in darkness, how can I lean upon Someone Who is not there?
39223	But what is the use when I know I shall fail again?
39223	But what was it that made_ this_ inheritance more pleasing to God than any of the other souls which He had redeemed?
39223	But what went you out to see?
39223	But what went you out to see?
39223	But where is He, this Servant of God Who has come to do His Will, this Man Who is also God, this Splendour of the Light Eternal and Sun of Justice?
39223	But who is ever going to persuade me that no glory is due to me?
39223	Can I adopt this method?
39223	Can I be sad when I realize the presence of JESUS in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar and all that means to me?
39223	Can I be said to be a person of one idea-- that of manifesting my Lord to others?
39223	Can we imagine Mary talking like this?
39223	Can we imagine him anxious and disturbed and worried?
39223	Could there be a better method than this for making us zealous for the work so dear to His Heart?
39223	Dare I come and kneel there where all is so holy and so perfect?
39223	Dare I go to the"Gate of Heaven"and say that I want to learn to be humble, that is, that I want to copy JESUS and Mary in their humiliations?
39223	Did the Angels who fell understand this and was this the cause of their rebellion?
39223	Do I want to be humble?
39223	Do my words and deeds, does my very manner, speak to them of Him and make them think of Him?
39223	Does He allude to the past and throw doubts on the future?
39223	Does He demand these by force?
39223	Does He upbraid?
39223	Does a child worry when its father is near?
39223	Does darkness make any difference to the intercourse of those who love?
39223	Does man realize this privilege and rise to it?
39223	Does not this solve many a problem?
39223	For is it not their God who is the cause of all that is happening to them, and is not that enough for those who love?
39223	Had Herod reached the limit, filled up the measure?
39223	He could have taken our nature, had He so wished, without all these humiliations; why then did He despise not the Virgin''s womb?
39223	He was_ afraid_, he said, afraid of what?
39223	How am I going to bear it when my turn comes?
39223	How can I do anything but rejoice when I think of the Divine Inhabitation?
39223	How can this be?
39223	How do they bear this difficult situation?
39223	How far do I copy Our Lady in her interior life?
39223	How is it to be done?
39223	How is it with me?
39223	How long has He been preparing?
39223	How much do I think about it?
39223	How will He use this Key and what is it?
39223	How?
39223	How_ do_ I bear them?
39223	I want to prepare the way of the Lord in my heart, how shall I do it?
39223	I, He?
39223	If duties or conservation demanded all her attention for a while, did it matter?
39223	If they could be called up and asked:"What did you think of so and so?"
39223	Is God angry?
39223	Is He the centre of all my preparations for Christmas?
39223	Is it not for the joy of seeing it look for her and for the consolation she is going to give it in letting herself be found?
39223	Is it not to please God and to do His Will?
39223	Is my zeal tempered with patience?
39223	Is she very much concerned about_ what_ the child is doing or_ how_ it is doing it?
39223	Is that why Our Lord refused to speak to him?
39223	Is this how God treats His friends?
39223	Is this the reward for fidelity and loyalty?
39223	Is this what the King of Peace intends?
39223	Mary''s correspondence with grace we naturally answer; but what do we mean by that?
39223	May it not be that I am thinking too much about the shining of the light and too little about the burning?
39223	My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?"
39223	No, rather let me ask what was the essence of His prayer?
39223	Now what is my side of this great question?
39223	Of his Master because He was hard and unjust?
39223	So with temptations-- why these terrible temptations, when God could so easily remove them?
39223	That if my zeal is to be efficacious I must live a hermit''s life far from the haunts of men?
39223	That of a loyal, whole- hearted, loving subject or that of one who is still hesitating between the service of self and the service of the King?
39223	They can not turn to Him and say:"Why hast Thou made me thus?"
39223	This fresh miracle was soon"noised abroad"and the people asked in fear:"What an one, think ye, shall this child be?"
39223	To Whom?
39223	Was it"a man clothed in soft garments"and living delicately?
39223	Was it"a prophet?"
39223	Was it"a reed shaken with the wind?"
39223	What answer would those with whom I live, those who know me best, have to give?
39223	What are His methods?
39223	What are all these but obstacles which keep God at a distance?
39223	What are the Will and pleasure of God?
39223	What are the desires of the nations compared with His desire?
39223	What are these"goods?"
39223	What could be more natural?
39223	What did the multitudes see?
39223	What did they hear?
39223	What does He ask in return?
39223	What does it mean?
39223	What does my Morning Offering mean, but that the prayers, work and sufferings of the day are all offered to Him?
39223	What follows?
39223	What happened at that moment?
39223	What happened then?
39223	What has He to say as soon as He comes in sight?
39223	What have His messengers to say when He asks:"What went you out to see?"
39223	What have I to do with these sublime truths?
39223	What have I to offer as I kneel in adoration?
39223	What have_ They_ to say?
39223	What is He doing during these months of waiting before Christmas?
39223	What is Prayer?
39223	What is in her mind when she sees those first streaks of light?
39223	What is my consolation and strength?
39223	What is my intention in my prayers?
39223	What is my response going to be to that Sceptre stretched out once again?
39223	What is necessary for all this?
39223	What is that?
39223	What lessons can we learn for our own preparation for the Coming of Christ this Advent?
39223	What light?
39223	What more natural than that I should make use of such a messenger to take back my offerings?
39223	What part is self- sacrifice taking in my preparation for my King this Advent?
39223	What sort of requests will these be?
39223	What then was her secret?
39223	What was John''s attitude?
39223	What was it which lay behind all?
39223	What was my intention in paying it?
39223	What were His?
39223	When people want to make much of me and my work and ask who I am, is my one thought to turn their eyes from me to Him Who is coming?
39223	When shall I learn that all my troubles come directly from JESUS too, and from my union with Him?
39223	When the people wondering asked him: Art thou the Christ?
39223	Where did she seek this rest, this calm of which her whole life speaks?
39223	Where had He come from?
39223	Who could better help us to prepare for the Coming of her Son than His own Mother?
39223	Who should be more filled with joy than I for whom He was incarnate?
39223	Why do people shut themselves up in convents, cries the world, when they might do so much good outside?
39223	Why does a mother hide from her child?
39223	Why is this, O Orient?
39223	Why these and not those?
39223	Why this_ dryness_ in prayer?
39223	Why was this?
39223	Why?
39223	Why?
39223	Why?
39223	Yes, it is natural for the saints to reason like this, but what about me?
39223	_ A determination of purpose._"What went you out into the desert to see?
39223	_ Dare_ I say this prayer?
39223	_ Fidelity to duty._"But what went you out to see?
39223	_ How will He come?_ He"shall so come as you have seen Him going into Heaven"( Acts I.
39223	_ In omnibus requiem quaesivi._--Is it so very hard?
39223	_ Is_ He being made manifest to others through me?
39223	_ Self- sacrifice._"But what went you out to see?
39223	_ Spiritual Bouquet._"What went you out to see?"
39223	_ Spiritual Bouquet._"Why hidest Thou Thy Face?"
39223	_ When will He come?_ God"hath_ appointed_ a day wherein He will judge the world in equity by the Man whom He hath appointed."
39223	_ Whose_ prayers who shall say?
39223	_ Why does He hide Himself?_ Why does He deliberately set up obstacles which prevent the soul from seeing Him?
39223	_ Why does He hide Himself?_ Why does He deliberately set up obstacles which prevent the soul from seeing Him?
39223	what would they have to say?
60377	3. Who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man?
60377	8. Who will remember thee when thou art dead; and who will pray for thee?
60377	All men naturally desire to know; but what doth knowledge avail without the fear of God?
60377	And how often have I found it where I did not expect it?
60377	And if thou ask why?
60377	And if thou drive him from thee, and lose him, to whom wilt thou fly, and whom then wilt thou seek for thy friend?
60377	And now in the midst of these things, what shall I say?
60377	And now, dear father, what shall I say?
60377	And to him that relishes thee not, what can ever yield any true delight?
60377	And unless thou didst command it, who would dare attempt to approach?
60377	And what can be more free, than he that desires nothing upon earth?
60377	And what need we concern ourselves about questions of philosophy?
60377	And what wonder, if he feels no weight, who is carried by the Almighty, and led on by the sovereign guide?
60377	And when thou hast run over all things, what profit will it be to thee, if thou hast neglected thyself?
60377	And why do such small things go to thy heart; but because thou art yet carnal, and regardest man more than thou oughtest?
60377	Are not all painful labours to be endured for everlasting life?
60377	Behold_ my_ God,_ and my All_, What would I have more, and what can I desire more happy?
60377	But if thou dost not overcome things that are small and light: when wilt thou overcome greater difficulties?
60377	But in what manner?
60377	But what art thou to those that love thee?
60377	But what return shall I make to the Lord for this grace, and for so extraordinary a charity?
60377	But whence is this to me, that thou shouldst come to me?
60377	But where is this devotion?
60377	But who am I, O Lord, that I should presume to come to thee?
60377	But why are we so willing to talk and discourse with one another: since we seldom return to silence without prejudice to our conscience?
60377	But why did I not provide better for myself, miserable wretch as I am?
60377	Can it be much to serve thee, whom the whole creation is bound to serve?
60377	Christ had adversaries and backbiters, and wouldst thou have all to be thy friends and benefactors?
60377	Christ would suffer and be despised, and dost thou dare to complain of any one?
60377	Could it even so much as pluck one hair away from thee?
60377	Dost thou think to escape that which no mortal could ever avoid?
60377	Dost thou think to have always spiritual consolations when thou pleasest?
60377	For when the disciples asked,_ Who was the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_( Matthew xviii.)
60377	For who is he that approaching humbly to the Fountain of Sweetness, does not carry away with him some little sweetness?
60377	For who is there amongst worldly people, that would not willingly receive comfort and spiritual joy, if he could always have it?
60377	For who shall be able to find the man that is truly poor in spirit, and naked of all things created?
60377	How canst thou look to continue ever in the same state of virtue, when this was not found in the angels in heaven, nor in the first man in Paradise?
60377	How dare such a sinner appear before thee?
60377	How do so many other religious do, who live under strict monastic discipline?
60377	How often have I not found faith there, where I thought I might depend upon it?
60377	How profitable indeed hath grace been kept with silence in this frail life, which is all but a temptation and a warfare?
60377	How shall I break through them?
60377	How shall I dare to approach, who am conscious to myself of no good, on which I can presume?
60377	How shall I pass without hurt?
60377	How short a time do I spend when I prepare myself to communicate?
60377	How sweetly and graciously dost thou order all things in favour of thy elect, to whom thou offerest thyself to be received in the sacrament?
60377	If a little suffering now makes thee so impatient, what will hell fire do hereafter?
60377	If all were perfect: what then should we have to suffer from others for God''s sake?
60377	If in the angels thou hast found sin, and hast not spared them, what will become of me?
60377	If thou art not now careful for thyself, who will be careful for thee hereafter?
60377	If thou art not prepared to- day, how wilt thou be to- morrow?
60377	If thou canst not make thyself such a one as thou wouldst: how canst thou expect to have another according to thy liking?
60377	If thou couldst see any thing at once before thee, what would it be but a vain sight?
60377	If thou dost not understand nor comprehend those things that are under thee, how shouldst thou comprehend those things that are above thee?
60377	If thou hadst not gone before and instructed us, who would have cared to have followed?
60377	If thou seekest rest in this life, how then wilt thou come to rest everlasting?
60377	If thou shalt say, thou art not able to suffer so much, how then wilt thou endure the fire of purgatory?
60377	If thou wilt suffer no opposition, how wilt thou be a friend of Christ?
60377	If to this day thou hadst always lived in honours and pleasures: what would it avail thee, if thou wert now in a moment to die?
60377	In what then, O Lord?
60377	Is any thing difficult to me?
60377	Is it not in me?
60377	Is it not thou, my Lord God, whose mercies are without number?
60377	Is not this a greater damage than if thou wert to lose the whole world?
60377	Lord what cause have I to complain if thou forsake me?
60377	Lord, how often shall I resign myself; and in what things shall I leave myself?
60377	Lord, what is my confidence which I have in this life?
60377	Lord?
60377	Now if he that makes a strong resolution often fails: what will he do who seldom or but weakly resolves?
60377	O God, the invisible Maker of the world, how wonderfully dost thou deal with us?
60377	O Lord, to what are we come?
60377	O fountain of everlasting_ love_, what shall I say of thee?
60377	O how exceedingly necessary is thy_ grace_ for me, O Lord, to begin that which is good, to go forward with it, and to accomplish it?
60377	O most wretched and foolish sinner, what answer wilt thou make to God, who knows all thy evils?
60377	O when shall I be with thee in thy kingdom, which thou hast prepared for thy Beloved from all eternity?
60377	O, my God, how much did they endeavour to do to please thee?
60377	Or shall I be like one that promises and does not perform?
60377	Or what can I justly alledge, if thou refuse to grant my petition?
60377	Or who, standing by a great fire, does not receive from it some little heat?
60377	Son, stand firm, and trust in me; for what are words but words?
60377	Stars have fallen from heaven, and I that am but dust, how can I presume?
60377	Suppose it to be so, that they have all they desire: how long dost thou think this will last?
60377	Tell me now where are all those great doctors, with whom thou wast well acquainted, whilst they were living, and flourished in learning?
60377	The whole life of Christ was a cross, and a martyrdom: and dost thou seek rest and joy?
60377	Thou art not to answer for others, but must give an account for thyself; why therefore dost thou meddle with them?
60377	To how many hath it been hurtful to have their virtue known, and over- hastily praised?
60377	To whom shall I give credit, O Lord?
60377	To- morrow is an uncertain day; and how dost thou know that thou shalt be alive to- morrow?
60377	Unless thou, O Lord, didst say it, who could believe it to be true?
60377	What answer canst thou make, O filthy sinner, to those that reproach thee, thou that hast so often offended God, and many times deserved hell?
60377	What are all temporal things, but deceit?
60377	What are these things, O Lord?
60377	What benefit is it to live long, when we advance so little?
60377	What can I do for my sins, but humbly confess them, and lament them, and incessantly implore thy mercy for them?
60377	What can any one do against thee, by his words or injuries?
60377	What can be more at rest than a simple eye[ that aims at nothing but God]?
60377	What can the world profit thee without Jesus?
60377	What canst thou see any where which can continue long under the sun?
60377	What canst thou see elsewhere which thou seest not here?
60377	What do I require more of thee, than that thou endeavour to resign thyself entirely to me?
60377	What does the solicitude about future accidents bring thee but only sorrow upon sorrow?
60377	What doth it avail thee, to discourse profoundly of the Trinity: if thou be void of humility, and consequently displeasing to the Trinity?
60377	What doth it avail to delay thy confession for a long time, or to put off the holy communion?
60377	What great thing is it, if thou be cheerful and devout when grace comes?
60377	What hast thou, vain man, to complain of?
60377	What hath man deserved, that thou shouldst give him thy grace?
60377	What hath thy servant but what he hath received from thee, and this without any merit on his side?
60377	What have I deserved for my sins but hell and everlasting fire?
60377	What have I done, O Lord, that thou shouldst impart any heavenly comfort to me?
60377	What have I then to glory in?
60377	What is all flesh in thy sight?
60377	What is it thou sayest, my Son?
60377	What is this or that to thee?
60377	What means this most loving condescension, and so friendly an invitation?
60377	What other things shall that fire feed on but thy sins?
60377	What return shall I make to thee for this grace?
60377	What saint was there ever in the world without his cross and affliction?
60377	What shall I do in my so great tribulations and anguishes, didst thou not encourage me with thy holy words?
60377	What shall I give thee for all these thousands of favours?
60377	What shall I say, who am guilty, and full of all confusion?
60377	What shall I therefore, an unworthy sinner, who am but dust and ashes, be able to search into, or conceive of so high and sacred a mystery?
60377	What then shall I do, O my God, my helper, my counsellor in necessities?
60377	What to those that serve thee with their whole heart?
60377	What was the reason why some of the saints were so perfect and contemplative?
60377	What will become of us yet in the end: who grow lukewarm so very soon?
60377	When shall I be set at liberty from the wretched slavery of sin?
60377	When shall I be without any impediment in true liberty, without any trouble of mind or body?
60377	When shall I contemplate the glory of thy kingdom?
60377	When shall I enjoy a solid peace, a peace never to be disturbed and always secure, a peace both within and without, a peace every where firm?
60377	When shall I to the full rejoice in thee?
60377	When wilt thou be_ all in all_ to me?
60377	When, O Lord, shall I be so happy as to think of thee alone?
60377	Where art thou, when thou art not present to thyself?
60377	Where is this so plentiful shedding of holy tears?
60377	Where is thy faith?
60377	Where is true peace, and true glory?
60377	Where shall we find a man that is willing to serve God_ gratis?_ 4.
60377	Where then can there be any lurking hole for glorying in myself?
60377	Where was it ever well with me without thee?
60377	Who am I, that thou shouldst give me thyself?
60377	Who can foresee all things, or who is able to provide against all future evils?
60377	Who is a greater hinderance and trouble to thee, than thine own unmortified affection of heart?
60377	Who is so wise as to be able fully to know all things?
60377	Who is there that has all things according to his will?
60377	Who is there that is most at ease?
60377	Who is there that serves and obeys me in all things, with that great care, with which the world and its lords are served?
60377	Why also have I so easily given credit to others?
60377	Why art thou troubled because things do not succeed with thee according to thy will and desire?
60377	Why dost thou pine away with vain grief?
60377	Why dost thou stand looking about thee here, since this is not thy resting place?
60377	Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labour?
60377	Why then am I not more inflamed, considering thy venerable presence?
60377	Why then art thou afraid to take up thy cross, which leads to a kingdom?
60377	Why wilt thou put off thy resolution from day to day?
60377	Why wilt thou see what thou must not have?
60377	Why wouldst thou prefer thyself to any one, since there are many more learned and skilful in the law than thyself?
60377	Why, O Lord?
60377	Wouldst thou have that immediately, which others after many tears and great labours have hardly obtained?
60377	_ Lord, what is man that thou art mindful of him; or the Son of Man that thou vouchsafest to visit him?_ Psalms vi.
60377	_ The Lord is my light, and my salvation: whom shall I fear?__ If whole armies should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear.
60377	and how dost thou vouchsafe to come to a sinner?
60377	and what will all things created avail thee, if thou be forsaken by the Creator?
60377	how great confidence shall he have at the hour of his death, who is not detained by an affection to any thing in the world?
60377	how little is their love of God, how weak is their devotion who so easily put by the sacred communion?
60377	how little ought I to esteem whatever good I may seem to have?
60377	how many would have staid afar off, and a great way behind, if they had not before their eyes thy excellent example?
60377	or what is my greatest comfort amongst all things that appear under heaven?
60377	or when could it be ill with me when thou wast present?
60377	or why do I desire to be esteemed?
60377	shall the clay glory against him that formed it?
60377	to whom but thee?
60377	what can I do, and whither shall I go without thee?
60377	what do I suffer interiorly, whilst in my mind I consider heavenly things, and presently a crowd of carnal thoughts offers to interrupt my prayer?
60377	what is our life if compared to theirs?
60377	when will there be an end of these evils?
60377	where any confidence in any conceit of my own virtue?
60377	why dost thou think to live long, when thou art not sure of one day?
60377	why tirest thou thyself with useless cares?
60377	{ 117} Are they not convinced to be rather lovers of themselves than of Christ, who are always thinking of their own profit and gain?
60377	{ 118} And what is that?
60377	{ 11} Who has a stronger conflict than he who strives to overcome himself?
60377	{ 160} How can I ever forget thee, who hast vouchsafed to remember me, even after that I was laid waste, and perished?
60377	{ 166} Dost thou think the men of the world suffer little or nothing?
60377	{ 189} And how can it be called life, since it begets so many deaths and plagues?
60377	{ 203} For what is it to thee whether this man be such, or such; or that man do or say this, or the other?
60377	{ 237} Otherwise how canst thou be mine, and I thine; unless thou be both within and without freed from all self- will?
60377	{ 244} Is it not for nothing?
60377	{ 254} If things foreseen do yet often hurt us, how can things unlooked for fail of wounding us grievously?
60377	{ 265} O good Jesu, when shall I stand to behold thee?
60377	{ 304} Why art thou disturbed at a little thing said against thee?
60377	{ 321} How shall I introduce thee into my house, who have oftentimes offended thy most gracious countenance?
60377	{ 373} Or what creature under heaven so beloved as a devout soul, into whom God cometh, that he may feed her with his glorious flesh?
60377	{ 74} If thou canst now endure so little how wilt thou be able to bear everlasting torments?
60377	{ 87} Whence shall thy patience be crowned, if thou meet with no adversity?
29971	Have I,he says,"any thing that others have not had, or can I hope to find any thing that has not been before?"
29971	Predicting words he multiplies, yet man can never knowThe thing that shall be; yea, what cometh after who shall tell?
29971	Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? 29971 That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?"
29971	What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?
29971	10?
29971	A cynic-- selfish, depressed?
29971	A disappointed sensualist?
29971	A gloomy stoic?
29971	Afar off on earth, with God in heaven?
29971	Again I ask, have we improved on this?
29971	Ah, is there not, too, a peculiar beauty in those words"more than conquerors"?
29971	Ah, who can sound?
29971	Am I to roam afar from home, By Babel''s streams, in gloom despondent?
29971	And are not those conditions and premises clearly laid down for us in the context here?
29971	And how could that affectionate heart force itself calmly to anoint the object of its love for burial?
29971	And in whom?
29971	And many thousand professing Christians are like Amasa of old, their ear is well pleased with the fair sound of"Art thou in health, my brother?"
29971	And shall we not, too, dear brother or sister now reading these lines, let our feeble voice be heard in this sweet harmony of praise?
29971	And think you, my reader, that nature does not cry out for comfort, and feel about for light at such a time?
29971	And thou mayest well say,"What can the man do that cometh after the king?"
29971	And was that travail and toil, even in service for Himself?
29971	And what must be the character of mind that would even seek to invent such a thought?
29971	And when was it written?
29971	And where is that second Man to be found?
29971	And why?
29971	And yet what did Job know of God?
29971	Are men really subject to blind law--"time and doom"?
29971	Are not both revealed there as never before?
29971	Are there no contingencies that more than counterbalance his swiftness?
29971	But as it is difficult to be occupied with"Love"in the abstract, can we find anywhere an embodiment of love?
29971	But does our Preacher find the rest he desires in the path of his own wisdom?
29971	But further, is this"falling asleep"of the saint to separate him, for a time, from the conscious enjoyment of his Saviour''s love?
29971	But high indeed as, in one point of view, this is, yet how low in another, for is one heart- throb stilled?
29971	But how are we to buy?
29971	But how much further can reason discern as to the comparative worth of wisdom or folly?
29971	But if infinite wisdom and love have rent the vail and made a new and living way into the Holiest, does He now say"few words"?
29971	But in what condition?
29971	But is not the counsel good and reasonable enough under certain conditions?
29971	But is that triumph, that joy, so far off that it can only be seen through the dim aisles and long vistas of many future ages and generations?
29971	But is there really no eye to pity?--no heart to love?--no arm to save?
29971	But is this possible?
29971	But the natural affections of the soul of man have they absolutely come to nothing?
29971	But then is all at one dead level?
29971	But then, Ecclesiastes continues, is there complete security in the humbler ranks of life?
29971	But then, is it thus that man came from his Maker''s hands?
29971	But"he that ascended, what is it but that he also descended?"
29971	But, then, are not"words to be few"?
29971	But, then, how may we become rich in that true, real sense?
29971	But, then, is it on account of his parents''sinning?
29971	Can Reason-- can any human Wisdom-- find any satisfactory answer to these weighty questions?
29971	Can he get what is really''good''from it?"
29971	Can we, my readers, fail to set our seal to the truth of all this?
29971	Did they lose anything by so cherishing it?
29971	Do I thus blame him?
29971	Do not all go to one place?--that vague"Sheol,"speaking of the grave, and yet the grave, not as the_ end_, but an indefinite shadowy existence beyond?
29971	Do not all things happen alike to all?
29971	Do the pleasures obtained during life fully compensate for what is spent in obtaining them?
29971	Do they satisfy?
29971	Do we envy him?
29971	Do we not recognize that he, too, was traveling through exactly the same scene as we find ourselves to be in?
29971	Does He not care?
29971	Does Revelation make itself heard here at last?
29971	Does he not give expression to one sad"touch of nature that makes the whole world kin"?
29971	Does he not say, if this life be all, this life of vanity under the sun, then let us eat and drink, for to- morrow we die?
29971	Does human ingenuity still work?
29971	Does human reason admit such a possible incongruity?
29971	Does it give a satisfying comfort?
29971	Does it not attract your nature, is it not a rest to see One e''en there at glory''s summit, yet with human form like thee?
29971	Does it not make Him who Himself has replaced the groan by the song precious?
29971	Does not our own apostle Paul confirm it?
29971	Does this really meet fully the present sorrow?
29971	Faith_ alone_ triumphs here; but faith_ triumphs_; and apart from such tests and trials, what opportunity would there be for faith_ to_ triumph?
29971	First, then, is it not in perfect accord with the peculiar character and calling of the Church?
29971	For as to those who are falling asleep, is_ He_ insensible to that which moves us so deeply?
29971	For is there oppression, and consequent weeping, in heaven?
29971	For the Preacher continues:"Does man''s labor satisfy him?
29971	For what is there in the labor itself?
29971	For, worse still, do men recognize, and live at all reasonably in view of, that common mortality?
29971	Had he not the power to warn the sleeping household of the impending danger?
29971	Has God no purpose in it?
29971	Has He forgotten to be gracious?
29971	Has He, who stamped His own perfection on all His works, permitted an awful hideous exception in the moral nature of man?
29971	Has death saved them from judgment?
29971	Has it made us more separate from the world, more heavenly in character, given us less in common with the worldling?
29971	Has it, then, no value?
29971	Has not this contrast between the new song and the old groan, again we may ask, great value?
29971	Has the writer, after all, been listening to another Voice that has taught him what is on the other side of the grave?
29971	Have not the lines fallen to us in pleasant places?
29971	Have we gained by our giving it up?
29971	Have we mistaken the standpoint whence our book was written?
29971	Have we no sympathy with the Preacher here?
29971	Have we not a goodly heritage?
29971	Have you not wondered why this wondrous word of revelation occurs thus in detail once and only once?
29971	How answer for the myriad sins of life?
29971	How can it endure the searching Light-- the infinite holiness and purity-- of the God to whom it goes?
29971	How can it, if every heart is fully satisfied, and nothing can be improved?
29971	How can this awful matter of my guilt in the sight of that God, the confessed and only source of thy"good,"be settled?
29971	How could He so speak who says"_ Pray without ceasing_"?
29971	How does it compare with Solomon''s?
29971	How is it?
29971	How is this to be answered, Ecclesiastes?--or what help to its answer dost thou give?...
29971	How reap what has been sown?
29971	How shall it give account for the wasted years?
29971	Human knowledge is but a candle, and what worth is candlelight when the noonday sun shines?
29971	I said of laughter,''it is mad;''and of mirth,''what doeth it?''"
29971	If His was the power, was His love lacking?
29971	Is He calmly indifferent to the anguish in that far- off cottage?
29971	Is He so bound by some law of His own making as to forbid his interfering with its working?
29971	Is death no longer the dark unknown?
29971	Is his song"Not all things else are half so dear As is His blissful presence here"to be silenced by death?
29971	Is it all His retributive justice against sin?
29971	Is it conscious still, or does it lose consciousness as in a deep sleep?
29971	Is it not a magnificent ascription of abounding wisdom?
29971	Is it not because of the perfect light that there shines?
29971	Is it not one of the weapons of those who contend against this our hope that we base too much on this isolated Scripture text?
29971	Is it not, then, in accord with this that her meeting with her Lord should be literally heavenly, too?
29971	Is it to deal with another troubled anxious soul, where human wisdom avails nothing?
29971	Is not God the source of order and harmony?
29971	Is not the word that believers shall,"meet the Lord in the air"in absolute accord with these different aspects of the Lord as Star and Sun?
29971	Is not this revelation self- evidently of God-- worthy of Him-- possible only to Him?
29971	Is not, then, this earth a unique place?--this life a wonderful time?
29971	Is that exactly true?
29971	Is that just as Scripture puts it?
29971	Is the opposite extreme of perfect idleness any better?
29971	Is the trysting of the saved one with his Saviour to be interrupted for awhile by death?
29971	Is there any law of constant unsatisfying circuit in Him?
29971	Is there any reverence in approach to such?
29971	Is there invention there?
29971	Is there not a glorious moral elevation in this conclusion?
29971	Is there one that can be found gold, silver, precious stones?
29971	Is this not mere imaginative ecstasy, whilst practically such a state is not possible?
29971	Is this the deliverance for which we hoped?
29971	Is this the promised grace of which even now we spoke?
29971	Is_ this_ what life is?
29971	Its bright morning ever to be clouded,--its day to be darkened with the thoughts of its_ end_?
29971	Look once more upon that Head: finds memory no attraction there In the time when, homeless- wandering, night- dews filled that very hair?
29971	My reader, do you enjoy this fair good?
29971	Nor need we ask, with our modern poet, who sings sweetly, but too much in the spirit of Ecclesiastes, Where wert thou, brother, those four days?
29971	Nor that the enemy of our souls is not quick in his malignant activity to suggest all kinds of awful doubt?
29971	Now is this not equally and exactly true of that other part of the divine nature-- Love?
29971	Now listen, as the heathen cry,"Where is now their God?"
29971	Now who has been leading us all through these exercises?
29971	O grave, where is thy victory?"
29971	Oh, grave, where is thy victory?
29971	On sorrow''s tree must my harp be To grief''s sad gusts alone respondent?
29971	One deep question answered?
29971	One fear quieted?
29971	One sin- shackle loosened?
29971	One tormenting doubt removed?
29971	Shall his lot not be shaped by infinite love and wisdom?
29971	Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
29971	Shall we ask Ecclesiastes one single question that surely needs clear answer in order to attain it?
29971	Shall we learn lessons there that shall rob it of all its terrors, and replace the groan with song?
29971	Shall we, who enjoy the very meridian of revelation light;--shall we, who have seen_ Him slain for us_, say_ less_?
29971	Strange counsel this, for sober and wise Ecclesiastes to give, is it not?
29971	Suppose this were where you and I were, my reader, what should we learn of the way of attaining to this"good that is fair"?
29971	Take the feeblest of the saints of God of today, and had Solomon in all his glory a lot like one of these?
29971	Tears there are, in plenty, in hell; for did not He who is Love say,"there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth"?
29971	That tears were raining on this crust of earth in that far- off time, exactly as they are to- day?
29971	The strong-- is he necessarily conqueror in the fight?
29971	The swift-- does he always win the race?
29971	Then said I in my heart, as it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me: and why was I then more wise?
29971	Then turn and listen to this sweet voice:"If any man thirst"( and what man does not?)
29971	Then why is it written we must all appear( or rather"be_ manifested_,"be clearly shown out in true light) before the judgment seat of Christ?
29971	To God who gave it?
29971	We will now ask our learned friends, since Solomon has been so conclusively proved not to have written it, Who did?
29971	What can be more than a conqueror?
29971	What can man''s mind conceive, he may ask, as well as man''s hand do, that cometh after the King?
29971	What can we give for that gold, when He says we are already poor?
29971	What comfort or hope could he extract from it?
29971	What discrimination is there here?
29971	What does that mean?
29971	What field has it not capacity to explore?
29971	What is the reasonable, necessary conclusion?
29971	What is the secret of it?
29971	What remains, then, for Solomon, and the myriads like him?
29971	What shall efface the memory of those wasted years, or what shall give a quiet peace, in view of the fast- coming harvest of that wild sowing?
29971	What then is the basis for all this verbiage about the temple worship?
29971	What use, then, in many words( not things) since they afford no relief as against that end?
29971	What would Solomon have given to have known this?
29971	Whence, then, the discord?
29971	Where and when does this judgment of our works, then, take place?
29971	Where are we, in time, my readers?
29971	Where can rest be found in such a scene?
29971	Where does it now abide?
29971	Where else in the old creation, and how long did that last?
29971	Where has our writer learned, with such emphatic certainty, of a judgment to come?
29971	Where, then, are the sins?
29971	Where, then, the sin?
29971	Wherein does this differ from Solomon''s"conclusion of the whole matter"?
29971	Whilst the spirit-- yes, what of the spirit?
29971	Who amongst men, let thought sweep as wide as it will amongst the children of Adam, can go or has gone, beyond him?
29971	Who can express the glories of that contrast?
29971	Who can picture the joy of that upward flight?
29971	Who can picture the terrors of this darkness in which such a conclusion leaves us?
29971	Who did_ the sin_ that brought this evident punishment?
29971	Who has seen and told what is on the other side of that dread portal?
29971	Who that has known the agony of broken heart- strings does not see the infinitely gracious tender comfort in those three words,"together with them"?
29971	Who will deny that this is indeed admirable?
29971	Why is it?
29971	Why was he born blind?
29971	Why was not His shield thrown about them?
29971	Why, then, do the guilty go comparatively free, and the guiltless suffer?
29971	Why, then, shall not these affections there have full unhindered play?
29971	Why, then, the thoroughly unequal allotment?
29971	Will it carry him on to the highest rest and freedom at last?
29971	Worse still, was He indifferent to the awful catastrophe that was about to crush the joy out of that family circle?
29971	Would not_ that_ silence the song of Heaven, embitter even its joy, and still leave tears to be wiped away?
29971	Wouldst thou be rich, then, my soul?
29971	Yea; would it not change its character completely, extracting bitterness from it?
29971	Yes, but does this really answer the root cause of the groan in our chapter?
29971	Yes, further, does not Time, unchecked by any higher power, sweep all relentlessly to one common end?
29971	Yes, further, this constant change-- is there no reason for it?
29971	_ Can_ we improve upon it?
29971	and do they remain to him as"profit"over and above that expenditure?
29971	for thou hadst the whole world and the glory of it at thy command in thy day, and did it enable thee to fill those"free and boundless desires"?
29971	or, most agonizing question of all, Has some inmate of that home sinned, and chilled thus His love?
12624	And when they saw Him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto Him, Son, why has thou thus dealt with us? 12624 Are there no limits to the demands of God upon us,"we sometimes despairingly ask?
12624	Lulley,she said and sung also,"My own dear Son, why are Thou wo?
12624	My sweete Son, Thou art me dear, Oh why have men hanged thee here? 12624 What,"it is asked,"is to be done?
12624	Who is this Jesus of Nazareth Whom ye preach? 12624 Why not,"ask certain people who have not thought out the meaning of Catholic dogma,"why not go at once to our Lord; why go in this roundabout way?"
12624	Alas, my dear Son, what means all this?"
12624	And Mary, the Mother?
12624	And as we go through our self- examination one of the most profitable questions we can ask is,"What do I love?"
12624	And can not we get the same attitude toward life?
12624	And can we for a moment think that the years of intercourse with our Lady meant nothing in the spiritual development of S. John?
12624	And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?
12624	And how else than as Queen of the heavenly host should we expect her to be represented?
12624	And how have we guarded this Presence?
12624	And if it does not, what am I going to do about it?
12624	And is not that just what we are constantly doing, and what constitutes the most pressing danger of the spiritual life?
12624	And shall we find there on the Way of Sorrow the virtues that are the opposite of the Seven Sins?
12624	And then came the demand for a review; that we look our practice squarely in the face and ask,"What is the ground of this?
12624	And then the question arises: What is the bearing of all that on my personal practice?
12624	And to his insolent question,"Why should I suffer in an intolerable situation?"
12624	And we have seen there, or we may see, may we not?
12624	And what about the last of the deadly sins, the sin of sloth?
12624	And what are we to understand Him to mean?
12624	And what can be the meaning of calling such a life useless to the world?
12624	And what have we to counteract the depression which is the natural reaction from the spectacle of the world- rejection of Christ?
12624	And what was S. Mary''s own attitude toward the announcement of the Angel?
12624	And what was the result?
12624	And when we ask,"What is the purpose of this?"
12624	And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
12624	Any sane person recognises that; but does the same person recognise the sane principle as applying in his own life?
12624	Apart from the waste of time due to attempting the impossible, what would be gained?
12624	Are there no limits to the methods by which business is to be pushed, except legal limits?
12624	Are they in fact spiritual?
12624	Are they those who deny the legitimacy of invocation, or those in whose religious practise it holds an important and vital place?
12624	Are we devoted to the aim of manifesting the glory of God and finishing the work that He has given us to do?
12624	Are we not bound to stand by the Lord''s day?
12624	Are we not quite safe in the case of S. Mary in the deduction from the nature of her vocation of the spiritual perfection to attribute to her?
12624	Are we to be made lax by silly talk about puritanism?
12624	Are we to be taken in by talk of hard work during the week and consequent need of rest?
12624	Are we to remain quiescent, or are we to make the attempt to generate moral force?
12624	Are we to think of these stories as containing any grain of truth?
12624	Are you not, in fact, neglecting your duty in not changing it?
12624	But are we to think of the death of a child as a disaster?
12624	But can we say that they have very wide or real acknowledgment?
12624	But death?
12624	But go back to the men and women whose sole interest is amusement-- how do they live?
12624	But have we all learned to use these hours so that we may be ready to meet the hours of testing which shall surely come?
12624	But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother?
12624	But how can Christendom generate any more moral force?
12624	But in our own Communion do we get any strong protest in favour of the sanctity of the day?
12624	But is anything actually saved by this sort of compromise?
12624	But is that the really horrifying thing about the Passion of our Lord?
12624	But is this true, to keep to a specific example, of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
12624	But just wherein does the dying of Christ become an example for us?
12624	But we feel, do we not?
12624	But what constitutes good will in a man?
12624	But what does this exemption from the common lot of men actually mean?
12624	But who, precisely, is to make the offering?
12624	But why not think of it as consummation?
12624	Can we imagine any more wonderful expression of the life of holiness to which we are called than that?
12624	Can we think that when in answer to our invocation she presents our prayers in union with her own, that love will fail?
12624	Did she remain there, or did she follow S. John, and at length come to live with him in Ephesus?
12624	Did they think that He had mistaken the caravan and been carried off in some other direction and was lost to them forever?
12624	Did they think that Jesus would be caught by the life of the Passover crowds that filled the streets of Jerusalem?
12624	Did they think that it would be a child''s curiosity which would hold him fascinated with the glittering toys of the bazaars?
12624	Do I see that it is quite possible that I may be wholly wrong, and that I am hindered by pride from reversing my attitude?"
12624	Do they believe in immortality?
12624	Do we give only when we are asked?
12624	Do we not feel that in S. John the mother has been committed to our love and care?
12624	Do we not feel that in S. John we have been recommended to the love and care of Mary who is our mother?
12624	Do we not often feel that something must be true far in advance of our ability to prove it so?
12624	Do we prefer to be anonymous?
12624	Do we put the spiritual interests of humanity first?
12624	Do we spend them in guarding the Presence?
12624	Do we yield to spectacular appeals or only to those that we have examined and found good?
12624	Do you not know that being busy is one of the most effective screens that you can put between your conscience and your obligation?
12624	Do you think that it is wrong to do this or that?
12624	Does it correspond with the teaching of Scripture and of the Catholic Church?
12624	Does not God''s use of a person imply qualities in the person used?
12624	Does she not represent us in one way and S. John represent us in another, in this supreme exchange of love?
12624	For how should there be peace in any world on any other terms?
12624	Had they so utterly misunderstood and misinterpreted Christ that this is the natural outcome of His movement?
12624	Has any actual victory redounded to the Prince of Power of the Air?
12624	Has humanity been permanently affected by the resumption of it by God in the resurrection?
12624	Has the Anglican"sanity and reserve"in regard to the Blessed Virgin Mary saved the Anglican Church from the inroads of unitarianism and rationalism?
12624	Has there anything been found in the way of evidence, we ask, which reflects upon the truth of the story in S. Luke?
12624	Has there at any time been any official action of the Anglican Church to limit my acceptance of the historic Faith?
12624	Has there never been any true spiritual discipline, but only a certain superficial conformity to a spiritual rule?
12624	Have I not done as I should do?
12624	Have I only a collection of prejudices there where I supposed that I had a collection of settled truths?
12624	Have I settled a practice for myself to which I am subjecting the teaching of the Bible and the Church?
12624	Have mothers no longer any sense of the value of purity?
12624	Have they heard the message of the first Easter morning, the angelic announcement of the resurrection of Christ?
12624	Have we been cold to her, and inappreciative of her love?
12624	Have we felt that we have no need of her in the conduct of our lives?
12624	Have we mastered the technique of the Christian life sufficiently to be single- eyed and pure- hearted in our pursuit of life''s ends?
12624	Have we taken up the Cross to go after Him, or are we assuming that we can just as well drift along with the crowd of those who only look on?
12624	How are_ we_ affected?
12624	How can one love and serve a Jesus whom one has lost?
12624	How can there be peace for those who are in rebellion against God?
12624	How could he do this?
12624	How escape?
12624	How long did she live?
12624	How many of you, for example, make your confessions and communions with the frequency and regularity that your theory about the sacraments implies?
12624	How shall we attain it?
12624	How should your flesh be reduced to dust and ashes who, by the Son born of you, have delivered the human race from the corruption of death?"
12624	How?
12624	I have so often heard people say, when the practice of invocation of saints was urged: Why ask the saints?
12624	I wonder if we force our meaning on the Bible or if we are trying to find therein new stimulus to action?
12624	I wonder if we have got a religious practice which is settled or one that is continually expanding?
12624	I wonder if we have wholly got beyond that point of view?
12624	III Why should I any love, O Queen, but thee, If favor past a thankful love should breed?
12624	If he be God and wills goodness, why does He not execute goodness, use power to accomplish it?"
12624	If one asks:"What is likely to happen if one does not imitate this life, but prefers some more modern type of usefulness?"
12624	If two people find that they have blundered, are they to go on indefinitely suffering from the result of their blunder?
12624	If we ask:"Why hope?"
12624	In our self examination, in our approach to the sacrament of penance, we are compelled to ask ourselves, Am I in fact sorry for my sins?
12624	Is it a fact any more conceivable that the virgin Mother of God should be born in original sin than that she should be the victim of actual sin?
12624	Is it in Churches where devotion to our Lady is suppressed?
12624	Is it not possible for us to have our share in that pure insight of blessed Mary?
12624	Is it not precisely in those circles where the very virginity of our Lady is denied that the divinity of our Lord is denied also?
12624	Is it that He appears and disappears so strangely, not coming any longer to be with them in the old way, with the old familiar intercourse?
12624	Is not that an illuminating phrase when we think of our relation to our Lord?
12624	Is not the life that shuts out from itself the society of heaven pitifully impoverished?
12624	Is sanctity then, or the possibility of it, shut within the narrow limits of a poor life?
12624	Is there a right method?
12624	Is there any appreciable amount of quiet spontaneous giving which is known to no one?
12624	Is there any sense in which we can be said to be following our Lord on the Sorrowful Way?
12624	Is there no falling away, no compromise, there?
12624	Is there, in fact, some peculiar and limited form of Christianity to which I owe allegiance?"
12624	It came to those primitive congregations, you remember, to which S. Peter was writing;"Where is the promise of his coming?
12624	It is not at all surprising that in the end they drop religion altogether, as why should one keep on travelling a road that leads nowhere?
12624	It is often so, is it not?
12624	It is quite pointless in times of great social distress to ask passionately,"why does not God make a better world?"
12624	It is true, is it not?
12624	It is true, is it not?
12624	Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
12624	Know ye not that I must be in my Father''s house?
12624	Know ye not that I must be in my Father''s house?"
12624	Love is a passion consuming her being-- what can the attendant circumstances matter?
12624	MARY: Ever I cried full piteously:"Lordings, what have ye i- brought?
12624	MARY:"I ask thee, Maudeleyn, where is that place,-- In plain or valley or in hill?
12624	Men look out on a world seething with unrest and filled with injustice, and they turn upon the Church and ask,"Why have you not changed all this?
12624	Naturally, one can not carry on an unsuccessful business, but need it be success by all means and to all extents?
12624	O my divine Son, is not this your opportunity, your"hour"?
12624	Of what energy?
12624	On the basis of our present effort can we, ought we, to have more than we have?
12624	Once more: is it not true that after a period of honest labour I do find results?
12624	One great trouble, is it not?
12624	One is often tempted to ask as one hears people talking of death:"Are these Christians?
12624	Or am I alert to see a contrast or a contradiction between my practice and the teaching of the Bible and the Church, if such exist?
12624	Or have they simply abandoned all responsibility that normally goes with being a mother?
12624	Our pressing question is, what difference has that made to us?
12624	PART TWO CHAPTER XII THE TEMPLE And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?
12624	PART TWO CHAPTER XV WHO IS MY MOTHER?
12624	Perhaps not all that I would like but all that I am justified in expecting from the energy I have spent?
12624	She would be with S. John as long as she lived, but can we think of her as living long?
12624	Should I let Him hangen there Let my Son alone then be?
12624	Should I see men mine own Son slay?
12624	Suppose when some pious soul comes to me and asks me if I will not pray for a sick child, or a friend at sea, I were to reply:"Why come to me?
12624	That gold and incense should be offered a King is clearly His royal right; but what has he to do with the bitterness of myrrh?
12624	That which S. Elizabeth spoke under divine impulse,--"Whence is this that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"
12624	The answer to our question is itself a perfectly simple one, as simple as would be the answer to the question:"Do you speak French?"
12624	The only question which is at all to the point is,"why has God not made_ me_ better?"
12624	The question which is becoming more urgent everywhere is, What are the women of the future to be,--the daughters of Eve, or the daughters of Mary?
12624	The question,"Must I do this?"
12624	Then why not give way now, to- night?
12624	This final surrender to the Father of a will that had never been separate from the Father,--what can we derive from all that?
12624	This is no doubt a unique vocation, but is it quite so far separated from ordinary Christian experience as we assume?
12624	This is the common case of the young whether boy or girl to- day, and the practical question is, Can they endure the isolation?
12624	Those few moments after the reception of our Incarnate Lord at the altar-- how do we habitually spend them?
12624	Thy head is closed with a brier, O why have men so done to Thee?"
12624	To the protest of parents that they are incompetent to conduct such training, the only possible reply is a blunt,"Whose fault is that?"
12624	To whom would Mary look?
12624	True, but is the adherence of the Church to its statements perfectly plain?
12624	WHO IS MY MOTHER?
12624	Was a new faith at any time introduced?
12624	Was it at all likely that the Jewish authorities having disposed of the leader in a dangerous movement would be content to let the followers go free?
12624	Was it then possible that she should be holden by death?
12624	Was that a light thing: Was it indeed so much less than the vocation of S. Joseph?
12624	We are back therefore where we started: What are our supreme ends?
12624	We feel, do we not?
12624	We know, do we not?
12624	We place ourselves in the group that surrounds our Lord when the soldiers, led by Judas, come, and ask ourselves shall I too run away?
12624	We tend, do we not?
12624	What did it mean, this resurrection of Jesus?
12624	What do you mean by this ceremony?
12624	What does He mean?"
12624	What does the Church teaching as to sanctity imply?
12624	What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?
12624	What in fact is it that you mean by worship?"
12624	What is the status of the priest?
12624	What is the trouble?
12624	What is there about her life that suggests weakness?
12624	What is there to appeal on the other side?
12624	What sort of a front is the church presenting to the world, what sort of moral influence is it exercising?
12624	What sort of character- development has so far been going on?
12624	What then do we mean by original sin?
12624	What to do?
12624	What voice can sing This mystery, or Cherub''s wing Lend from his golden stock a pen To write, how Heaven came down to men?
12624	What was S. Joseph''s attitude?
12624	What was to be done?
12624	When in response to their preaching men asked the question:"Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
12624	When one asks:"Why should I imitate this life which, however good in an abstract way, is not very harmonious with the ideals of society at present?"
12624	When such things are pointed out from the pulpit the"practical man"says:"What would become of the Church were it not for the rich and the successful?"
12624	When we ask what this congregation is, what is the answer?
12624	When we ask, why is there such a feeling?
12624	Where did she live?
12624	Where to- day is the Deity of our Lord defended most ardently and devotion to Him most wide spread?
12624	Who is shee that adorned with light, Makes the sunne her robe, At whose feete the queene of night Layes her changing globe?
12624	Whoe is shee that assends so high Next the heavenlye Kinge, Round about whome angells flie And her prayses singe?
12624	Why after Bethlehem, Egypt?
12624	Why after Gabriel, Herod?
12624	Why could they not talk about the Mission that has just been held, or the Quiet Day that is in prospect?
12624	Why do you keep this day?
12624	Why in this roundabout way ask me to pray?
12624	Why is this?
12624	Why not get a bigger notion of God than that of a mechanician running a machine, and think of Him as a Person dealing with persons?
12624	Why not go directly to God?
12624	Why not go directly to God?"
12624	Why not in an humble spirit observe how God does act?
12624	Why not pursue the same method in religion?
12624	Why not think of it as setting the seal of God''s approval upon our accomplishment of His will and purpose for us?
12624	Why not?
12624	Why reject as incredible the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection?
12624	Why start by saying,"Miracles do not happen?"
12624	Why then should it not ensure spiritual bankruptcy?
12624	Why was this?
12624	With this conception of power in mind men are continually asking:"Why does not God do this or that?
12624	Would not a great love draw her to another world and the presence of her triumphant Son?
12624	Would they not rather seek to wipe out the last traces of the movement in blood?
12624	and who are my brethren?
12624	or why throw about the ceremony the suggestions of a sacrament?
12624	that the coming of the child brought enrichment into the life of its parents?
23772	In fine horum sex annorum manet[ 1627- 8- 9]--Quid habeo quod non accepi a Domino?
23772	Wilt Thou forgive that sin, which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? 23772 3),Do these bones live?
23772	A Jupiter, and need an Æsculapius?
23772	A god, and need a physician?
23772	About midnight he was taken and bound with a kiss, art thou not too conformable to him in that?
23772	And being so, the breath of God, I may breathe back these pious expostulations to my God: My God, my God, why is not my soul as sensible as my body?
23772	And can the other world name so many venomous, so many consuming, so many monstrous creatures, as we can diseases of all these kinds?
23772	And fear famine, though we fear not enemies?
23772	And how much less a piece of himself is that man?
23772	And how quickly?
23772	And in that vehement imprecation, the prophet expresses the highest of God''s anger,_ Give them, O Lord, what wilt thou give them?
23772	And is it a question of comfort to be asked now, did your physic make you sick?
23772	And shall we, O my God, make less use of those days who have more of them?
23772	And then, where is my assurance?
23772	And what organ is not well played on if thy hand be upon it?
23772	And what other touchstone have we of our gold but comparison, whether we be as happy as others, or as ourselves at other times?
23772	And when shall we date this obligation, this_ oportuit_, this necessity?
23772	And when thou hast told me that a relapse is more odious to thee, need I ask why it is more dangerous, more pernicious to me?
23772	And why, O God, dost thou not speak to me, in that effectual loudness?
23772	And why, since I have lost my delight in all objects, can not I discontinue the faculty of seeing them by closing mine eyes in sleep?
23772	And would he not spare himself?
23772	And would not the angels that fell have fixed themselves upon thee, if thou hadst once readmitted them to thy sight?
23772	Any vein so empty as that that blood can not fill it?
23772	Are they gods?
23772	As my bed is my afflictions, when shall I bear them so as not to murmur at them?
23772	At night he went into the garden to pray, and he prayed prolixious, he spent much time in prayer, how much?
23772	At the end of these six years remains-- What have I, which I have not received from the Lord?
23772	But a cloud?
23772	But comes not this expostulation too near a murmuring?
23772	But could I though I would?
23772	But for all this metaphorical bread, victory over enemies that thought to devour us, may we not fear, that we may lack bread literally?
23772	But for the body, how poor a wretched thing is that?
23772	But hast thou afforded us no means to evaporate these smokes, to withdraw these vapours?
23772	But he, for whose funeral these bells ring now, was at home, at his journey''s end yesterday; why ring they now?
23772	But in that case there were bones to be seen, something visible, of which it might be said, Can this thing live?
23772	But is every raising a preferment?
23772	But is prayer for health in season, as soon as I am sick?
23772	But since I do that, shall I not,_ Lord, lift up my face without spot, and be steadfast, and not fear_?
23772	But then is that the end of all?
23772	But what have I done, either to breed or to breathe these vapours?
23772	But what is my assurance now?
23772	But what is the present necessary action?
23772	But wherefore, O my God, hast thou presented to us the afflictions and calamities of this life in the name of waters?
23772	But why did he die?
23772	But why do I exercise my meditation so long upon this, of having plentiful help in time of need?
23772	But why then, my God, wilt thou not begin them here?
23772	But will God pretend to make a watch, and leave out the spring?
23772	But, Lord, thou art Lord of hosts, and lovest action; why callest thou me from my calling?
23772	But, O my God, can I do this, and fear thee; come to thee and speak to thee, in all places, at all hours, and fear thee?
23772	But, O my God, my God, do I that have this fever need other remembrances of my mortality?
23772	But, O my God, my God, since I have my ship and they theirs, I have them and they have thee, why are we yet no nearer land?
23772	But, O my God, my God, since heaven is glory and joy, why do not glorious and joyful things lead us, induce us to heaven?
23772	But, O my God, why is it so?
23772	By what measure did Jacob measure his life to Pharaoh?
23772	Certainly this decree by which Christ was to suffer all this was an eternal decree, and was there any thing before that that was eternal?
23772	Could I fit myself to stand or sit in any man''s place, and not to lie in any man''s grave?
23772	Dare I ask this question?
23772	Did his exemption and freedom from original sin preserve him from this corruption and incineration?
23772	Did the hypostatical union of both natures, God and man, preserve him from this corruption and incineration?
23772	Dost thou command me to speak to thee, and command me to fear thee; and do these destroy one another?
23772	Dost thou look, that I should so look to the fuel or embers of sin, that I never take fire?
23772	Dost thou not mean this when thou sayest,_ we shall understand the fear of the Lord_?
23772	Dost thou think to find it, as thou madest it, in Adam?
23772	Doth thy Son dwell bodily in this flesh that thou shouldst look for an unspottedness here?
23772	First, this is the day of thy visitation, thy coming to me; and would I look to be welcome to thee, and not entertain thee in thy coming to me?
23772	Hast thou gone about to redeem thy sin, by fasting, by alms, by disciplines and mortifications, in way of satisfaction to the justice of God?
23772	His soul is gone, whither?
23772	Honours, pleasures, possessions, presented to us out of time?
23772	How far did thy servant David press upon thy pardon in that petition,_ Cleanse thou me from secret sins_?
23772	How many men are raised, and then do not fill the place they are raised to?
23772	How many men that stand at an execution, if they would ask, For what dies that man?
23772	How much more might I, who was in the bed of death, die?
23772	How much oftener doth he exhibit a metaphorical Christ, than a real, a literal?
23772	How often, how much more often, doth thy Son call himself a way, and a light, and a gate, and a vine, and bread, than the Son of God, or of man?
23772	How shall I bring to thy knowledge, by that way, those sins which I myself know not?
23772	How shall I do that which thou requirest, and not falsify that which thou hast said, that sin is gone over all?
23772	I am the dust and the ashes of the temple of the Holy Ghost, and what marble is so precious?
23772	I do nothing, I know nothing of myself; how little and how impotent a piece of the world is any man alone?
23772	I know( for thou hast said it) that there are men whose damnation sleepeth not;[215] but shall not they to whom thou art salvation sleep?
23772	I must then speak to thee at all times, but when must I fear thee?
23772	I was whipped by thy rod, before I came to consultation, to consider my state; and shall I go no farther?
23772	If I accuse myself of original sin, wilt thou ask me if I know what original sin is?
23772	If I confess to thee the sins of my youth, wilt thou ask me if I know what those sins were?
23772	If I sleep not, shall I not be well in their sense?
23772	If a choleric man be ready to strike, must I go about to purge his choler, or to break the blow?
23772	If he who, as this bell tells me, is gone now, were some excellent artificer, who comes to him for a cloak or for a garment now?
23772	If man had been left alone in this world at first, shall I think that he would not have fallen?
23772	If that be thy language in this voice, how infinitely am I bound to thy heavenly Majesty for speaking so plainly unto me?
23772	If there had been no woman, would not man have served to have been his own tempter?
23772	If these bells that warn to a funeral now, were appropriated to none, may not I, by the hour of the funeral, supply?
23772	If this imaginary, half- nothing time, be of the essence of our happinesses, how can they be thought durable?
23772	If we say, Can this dust live?
23772	In this sin, and in all your sins, doth not the resisting of thy particular helps at last draw upon us the guiltiness of all our former sins?
23772	Is it because some abuses may have crept in amongst Christians?
23772	Is it enough to refuse it, because it was in use among the Gentiles?
23772	Is it not evidently so in our affections, in our passions?
23772	Is it not so in states too?
23772	Is it not so in the accidents of the diseases of our mind too?
23772	Is not mine own hollow voice, voice enough to pronounce that to me?
23772	Is not my meditation rather to be inclined another way, to condole and commiserate their distress who have none?
23772	Is not that too literally, too exactly thy case, at midnight to have been taken and bound with a kiss?
23772	Is not this to hang a man at his own door, to lay him sick in his own bed of wantonness?
23772	Is not this, O my God, a holy kind of raising up seed to my dead brother, if I, by the meditation of his death produce a better life in myself?
23772	Is that enough, that their ringing hath been said to drive away evil spirits?
23772	Is that joy and that glory but a comparative glory and a comparative joy?
23772	Is the glory of heaven no perfecter in itself, but that it needs a foil of depression and ingloriousness in this world, to set it off?
23772	Is the joy of heaven no perfecter in itself, but that it needs the sourness of this life to give it a taste?
23772	Is there any more?
23772	Is there any other measure of the greatness of my danger, than the greatness of thy displeasure?
23772	Is there any thing incurable, upon which that balm drops?
23772	It is my study; doth not my calling call for that?
23772	It is my thoughtfulness; was I not made to think?
23772	It is the union of the body and soul, and, O my God, could I prevent that, or can I dissolve that?
23772	Jonah slept in one dangerous storm,[218] and thy blessed Son in another;[219] shall I have no use, no benefit, no application of those great examples?
23772	Must we look to be drowned?
23772	My God, my God, what am I put to when I am put to consider and put off the root, the fuel, the occasion of my sickness?
23772	My God, my God, wouldst thou call thyself the ancient of days,[194] if we were not to call ourselves to an account for our days?
23772	Nay, is it not so( at least much towards it) even in the exercise of virtues?
23772	Need I look upon a death''s head in a ring, that have one in my face?
23772	No?
23772	Not lie down upon it, as it is my pleasure, not sink under it, as it is my correction?
23772	Now, whom doth it concern to learn both the danger and benefit of death?
23772	O what a giant is man when he fights against himself, and what a dwarf when he needs or exercises his own assistance for himself?
23772	O who, if before he had a being he could have sense of this misery, would buy a being here upon these conditions?
23772	Oh, have I always done so?
23772	Quid apertius diceretur?_ says he there, what can be more obvious, more manifest than this sense of these words?
23772	Quid apertius diceretur?_ says he there, what can be more obvious, more manifest than this sense of these words?
23772	Shall I find thee in bed?
23772	Shall that slacken my hope?
23772	Shall this come to such a leprosy in my body that I must die alone; alone without them that should assist, that should comfort me?
23772	Since the whole sickness is thy physic, shall any accident in it be my poison by my murmuring?
23772	The root and the fuel of my sickness is my sin, my actual sin; but even that sin hath another root, another fuel, original sin; and can I divest that?
23772	They never relapsed; if I do, must not my case be as desperate?
23772	They tell me it is my melancholy; did I infuse, did I drink in melancholy into myself?
23772	This is man''s prerogative; but what state hath he in this dignity?
23772	This soul this bell tells me is gone out, whither?
23772	Though it be well with them at one time, may they not fear that it may be worse?
23772	Thy first breath breathed a soul into me, and shall thy breath blow it out?
23772	Thy method is,_ In time of thy sickness, be not negligent_: wherein wilt thou have my diligence expressed?
23772	Time is not so; how can they be thought to be?
23772	To this bed?
23772	Was I not sick before?
23772	Was that it that my physic promised, to make me sick?
23772	We rejoice in the comfort of fire, but does any man cleave to it at midsummer?
23772	We say often that a man may live of a little; but, alas, of how much less may a man die?
23772	We, who have not only the day of the prophets, the first days, but the last days, in which thou hast spoken unto us by thy Son?
23772	What Hippocrates, what Galen, could show me that in my body?
23772	What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?
23772	What gave him this privilege?
23772	What preserved him then?
23772	What shall I do?
23772	What will not kill a man if a vapour will?
23772	When art thou so ready, when is it so seasonable to thee, to commiserate, as in misery?
23772	When didst thou rebuke any petitioner with the name of importunate?
23772	When didst thou search mine?
23772	When shall I take up my bed and walk?
23772	When shall men leave their uncharitable disputations, which is to take place, faith or repentance, and which, when we consider faith and works?
23772	When shall we say that began?
23772	When thou bidst me_ to put off the old man_,[329] dost thou mean not only my old habits of actual sin, but the oldest of all, original sin?
23772	When wilt thou bid me_ take up my bed and walk_?
23772	When wilt thou do all?
23772	When wilt thou speak in thy loud voice?
23772	Whither shall I come to thee?
23772	Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings?
23772	Who can that be, says he, but Jesus?
23772	Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises?
23772	Who comes to a day of hearing, in a cause of any importance, with one advocate?
23772	Who saw it come in, or who saw it go out?
23772	Who shall tell me that?
23772	Whom?
23772	Why are there not always waters in mine eyes, to testify my spiritual sickness?
23772	Why do I ask?
23772	Why dost thou melt me, scatter me, pour me like water upon the ground so instantly?
23772	Why is none of the heaviness of my heart dispensed into mine eye- lids, that they might fall as my heart doth?
23772	Why is there not always a pulse in my soul to beat at the approach of a temptation to sin?
23772	Why should not that be always good by which thou hast declared thy plentiful goodness to us?
23772	Why should we fear them?
23772	Why should we look for it in a disease, which is the disorder, the discord, the irregularity, the commotion and rebellion of the body?
23772	Why then, O my God, my blessed God, in the ways of my spiritual strength, come I so slow to action?
23772	Why, O my God, is a relapse so odious to thee?
23772	Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore?
23772	Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two:--but wallow''d in a score?
23772	Wilt thou bid me to separate the leaven that a lump of dough hath received, or the salt, that the water hath contracted, from the sea?
23772	Wilt thou give me an inheritance, a filiation, any thing for my heart?
23772	Wilt thou make thy process and thy decree, thy citation and thy judgment, but one act?
23772	Wouldst thou chide us for_ standing idle here all the day_,[195] if we were sure to have more days to make up our harvest?
23772	[ 12] Is there a verier child than I am now?
23772	[ 139] Can any sin be secret?
23772	[ 147] Am I thy Son as long as I have but my heart?
23772	[ 150] Dost thou remember this, and wouldst thou have my heart?
23772	[ 15] How shall they come to thee whom thou hast nailed to their bed?
23772	[ 185] or hath thy Son himself no spots, who hath all our stains and deformities in him?
23772	[ 188] Lord, if thou look for a spotlessness, whom wilt thou look upon?
23772	[ 225] Since thy blessed Son rebuked his disciples for sleeping, shall I murmur because I do not sleep?
23772	[ 250] Should we do so?
23772	[ 270] Since thou art so, O my God, and affliction is a sea too deep for us, what is our refuge?
23772	[ 280] Why have not they and I this dispatch?
23772	[ 288] Dost thou not( at least) send us first to the hand?
23772	[ 28] My God, my God, how soon wouldst thou have me go to the physician, and how far wouldst thou have me go with the physician?
23772	[ 314] As my bed is my affections, when shall I bear them so as to subdue them?
23772	[ 364] And when God asked him,_ Dost thou well to be angry for this?_ he replies,_ I do well to be angry, even unto death_.
23772	[ 37] Have I, O Lord, done so?
23772	[ 71] Shall a fear of thee take away my devotion to thee?
23772	_ Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well_,[220] say thy Son''s disciples to him of Lazarus; and shall there be no room for that argument in me?
23772	_ Nonne terram dedit filiis hominum?_ How then hath God given this earth to the sons of men?
23772	_ Nonne terram dedit filiis hominum?_ How then hath God given this earth to the sons of men?
23772	_ The Lord is my help and my salvation, whom shall I fear?_[74] Great enemies?
23772	_ The Most High uttered his voice._ What was his voice?
23772	_ Thou givest thy beloved sleep_:[216] shall I lack that seal of thy love?
23772	_ What is man, and whereto serveth he?
23772	_ You shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid_:[217] shall I be outlawed from that protection?
23772	_ Young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing._[76] Never?
23772	and how lame a picture, how faint a representation is that, of the precipitation of man''s body to dissolution?
23772	and that herein, in a show of humility and thankfulness, I magnify myself more than there is cause?
23772	and what a minute is man''s life in respect of the sun''s, or of a tree?
23772	and why die so?
23772	and yet how little of our life is occasion, opportunity to receive good in; and how little of that occasion do we apprehend and lay hold of?
23772	are they bottomless, are they boundless?
23772	but who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?
23772	but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out?
23772	how much do we lack of having remedies for every disease, when as yet we have not names for them?
23772	if a magistrate, for justice?
23772	leave no other answer, but that the hand of death pressed upon him from the first minute?
23772	not heal me wholly?
23772	not heal me?
23772	not if this evil determine in death?
23772	not such in itself, but such in comparison of the joylessness and the ingloriousness of this world?
23772	or for counsel, if he were a lawyer?
23772	or go for death to my neighbour''s house, that have him in my bosom?
23772	or is every present preferment a station?
23772	or is the Holy Ghost the soul of this body, as he is of thy spouse, who is therefore_ all fair, and no spot in her_?
23772	or shall I be open to the contrary?
23772	or will God make a spring, and not wind it up?
23772	or wilt thou take from them that evidence, and that testimony that they are thy Israel, or thou their salvation?
23772	should hear their own faults condemned, and see themselves executed by attorney?
23772	so odious?
23772	so often in the name of waters, and deep waters, and seas of waters?
23772	thus,_ He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart_?
23772	to make so many various wheels in the faculties of the soul, and in the organs of the body, and leave out grace, that should move them?
23772	what is my seal?
23772	when thou madest them?