The main thing is to have the realization of God in one's own soul; it would be enough to have that, I should think.

But to some of us God is only another name for the power of good,--or, one might as well say force, and that is blind and impersonal; there is nothing comforting or tender in the thought of force.

How do you suppose the conviction of the personality of God is reached ?" "All nonsense," said the rector, as he went home, striking out with his cane at the stalks of golden-rod standing stiff with frost at the roadside.

"I shall tell Gifford he ought to know better than to have these discussions with her.

Women don't understand such things; they go off at half cock, and think themselves skeptics.