In others, it has always seemed to me that there is strife and [Greek: dipsyxia]--one great factor pulling one way and one another; but it has never been so with me--there has never been a serious strain.

I have always known what I meant, and have generally done it; and little by little, as I have lived, comparing this inner presence with what I can see of moral laws, of Divine government, I have come to observe that the two are almost identical, though there are certain variations which I have not yet accounted for.
"Mind, this has been in my case a _negative_ influence; it has never urged a course upon me; it has always withheld me.

Even in a dilemma of any kind, it never has said, 'Do this;' it is always, 'Avoid that.' So that I have had to take my line, as I have done in practical things, though never in opposition to its warnings.
"I had always thought that I was being educated to the point of describing this subjective law to others, and helping them to some such position.

I have always felt that I had a message to deliver, though the manner and method of delivering it I felt I had to discover.
"And so I was led from point to point.

I was educated without any special domestic attachments.