Beautiful usages are
remaining still,--kindly affections, radiant hopes, and ardent
aspirations!
"'It is a comfortable thing to reflect, as they do, and as we may do
unblamably, that we are uplifting to our Guide and Maker the same
incense of the heart, and are uttering the very words, which our
dearest friends in all quarters of the earth, nay in heaven itself,
are offering to the throne of grace at the same moment.
"'Thus are we together through the immensity of space. What are
these bodies? Do they unite us? No; they keep us apart and asunder
even while we touch. Realms and oceans, worlds and ages, open
before two spirits bent on heaven. What a choir surrounds us when
we resolve to live unitedly and harmoniously in Christian faith!'"
SIR THOMAS.
"Now, Silas, what sayest thou?"
SIR SILAS.
"Ignorant fool!"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Ignorant fools are bearable, Master Silas! your wise ones are the
worst."
SIR THOMAS.
"Prithee no bandying of loggerheads."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Or else what mortal man shall say
Whose shins may suffer in the fray?"
SIR THOMAS.
"Thou reasonest aptly and timest well. And surely, being now in so
rational and religious a frame of mind, thou couldst recall to
memory a section or head or two of the sermon holden at St.
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