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Earnestness

Charles Benjamin Tayler

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Description:This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from CHAPTER III. "To be spiritually-minded is life and peace." Rom. viii, 8. i OTHER," said Gertrude, after a long silence, " I have been thinking of a remark of my father's, 'It is a sign,' he said, ' of the state to which man has been brought by the fall, that we should be discontented with our actual condition, and praise the past, at the expense of the present.' How true it is, and how foolish ! for we often throw away opportunities of enjoyment, by pining lamentations for what, in fact, we scarcely valued when we had it." " And yet," said Mrs. Temple, " when that past was the present, we doubtless made the same complaint : and thus life itself may glide away, and many a golden hour be lost, and happiness be marred, not by the interference of others, but by our own perverseness." "I felt, mother," said Gertrude, "that the remark applied to myself. I might have been happy with the present, at Delford, without lamenting the past, at Springhurst; and I know that I may be happy here, if I am not so thoughtless and so thankless as to let the present slip, while looking back and longing for the past. What a pleasant room this is, mother; and what happy mornings we have already passed in it together!" " It is, Gertrude ; and there is much of the charm of country about it. The broad and shining river, seen through the lofty trees ; and the beautiful landscape beyond, backed by the blue and distant hills these form as fine a prospect as we could wish for anywhere. I admire, however, the quiet and almost sober character of the room itself, and of its old-fashioned furniture. There are more modern rooms in this large house, which were preferred by its former tenants; but I chose this for our morning sitting-room, because here we can always breathe pure country air, and there...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Earnestness. To get started finding Earnestness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from CHAPTER III. "To be spiritually-minded is life and peace." Rom. viii, 8. i OTHER," said Gertrude, after a long silence, " I have been thinking of a remark of my father's, 'It is a sign,' he said, ' of the state to which man has been brought by the fall, that we should be discontented with our actual condition, and praise the past, at the expense of the present.' How true it is, and how foolish ! for we often throw away opportunities of enjoyment, by pining lamentations for what, in fact, we scarcely valued when we had it." " And yet," said Mrs. Temple, " when that past was the present, we doubtless made the same complaint : and thus life itself may glide away, and many a golden hour be lost, and happiness be marred, not by the interference of others, but by our own perverseness." "I felt, mother," said Gertrude, "that the remark applied to myself. I might have been happy with the present, at Delford, without lamenting the past, at Springhurst; and I know that I may be happy here, if I am not so thoughtless and so thankless as to let the present slip, while looking back and longing for the past. What a pleasant room this is, mother; and what happy mornings we have already passed in it together!" " It is, Gertrude ; and there is much of the charm of country about it. The broad and shining river, seen through the lofty trees ; and the beautiful landscape beyond, backed by the blue and distant hills these form as fine a prospect as we could wish for anywhere. I admire, however, the quiet and almost sober character of the room itself, and of its old-fashioned furniture. There are more modern rooms in this large house, which were preferred by its former tenants; but I chose this for our morning sitting-room, because here we can always breathe pure country air, and there...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Earnestness. To get started finding Earnestness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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