For He never in Gethsemane or on Calvary either cried as Paul once cried, and as you and I cry every day--To will is present with me! But the good that I would I do not! And, oh! the body of this death! 6.

Now, if any total stranger to all that shall ask me: What good there is in all that?
and, Why I so labour in such a world of unaccustomed and unpleasant things as that?
I have many answers to his censure.

For example, and first, I labour and will continue to labour more and more in this world of things, and less and less in any other world, because here we begin to see things as they are--the deepest things of God and of man, that is.

Also, because I have the precept, and the example, and the experience of God's greatest and best saints before me here.

Because, also, our full and true salvation begins here, goes on here, and ends here.