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To feel its wondrous harmonies searching the subtlest windings of your soul, the delicate fibres of life where no memory can penetrate, and binding together your whole being past and present in one unspeakable vibration, melting you in one moment with all the tenderness, all the love that has been scattered through the toilsome years, concentrating in one emotion of heroic courage or resignation all the hard-learnt lessons of self-renouncing sympathy, blending your present joy with past sorrow and your present sorrow with all your past joy?
It can only be the greatest love that is always silent, and in the greatest, that is, the ideal and self-renouncing love, he did not believe; though in his own life's experience he had been given a proof that such love is possible to women, if not to men.
It was not possible she should hear anything but self-renouncing affection and respect in his assurance that he was contented for her to go away; and yet there remained an uneasy feeling in his mind that he had not said quite the right thing that, somehow, Dinah had not understood him. Dinah must have risen a little before the sun the next morning, for she was downstairs about five o'clock.
"Again and again has the kingdom 'suffered violence' has been brought fragmentarily into the world 'by force' by the only irresistible force that of suffering, of love, of self-renouncing faith. "To that 'force' we, as religious Reformers, appeal. "The parables of the mustard seed and the leaven do not express the whole thought of Christ.
Still holding the case in her hands unopened, she murmured: "I want a sober mind, A self-renouncing will, That tramples down and casts behind The baits of pleasing ill." She repeated the whole hymn several times, as if it were a kind of spell or incantation, and while she was yet saying it she opened the miniature.
Sometimes he looked beyond the tragedy which he thought inevitable to a recovered and normal life for Diana; sometimes he felt a dismal certainty that when Oliver had left her, that recovered life could only shape itself to ascetic and self-renouncing ends. Had she belonged to his own church, she would no doubt have become a "religious"; and he would have felt it the natural solution.
For the rest, whether he comes back for me at once, or some years hence, must depend on papa and mamma." She spoke with grave content beaming in her eyes, just like herself. The restoration was still swallowing up everything else. And when the self-abhorring thrill Is past as pass it must, When tasks of life thy spirit fill, Then be the self-renouncing will The seal of thy calm trust.
Our moral vocation, then, consists in renunciation of the world and retirement into ourselves, and in patient faithfulness at the post assigned to us. Virtue is amor dei ac rationis, self-renouncing, active, obedient love to God and to the reason as the image and law of God in us. Man is unhappy because he seeks happiness.
We stood far removed from each other, and a gulf lay between us, but heavenly music formed a golden starry bridge over this abyss, and the holy and melodious tones whispered to our young hearts, the complaints and longings of a speechless, self-renouncing love. Only thus, only thus, a sweet dream, and nothing more!
Here they lived, and here they died, giving up every earthly comfort and attraction that they might set gospel truth before those whose infected and repulsive bodies made them objects of terror and avoidance to all but those self-renouncing followers of their Saviour. Here, indeed, moral courage has reached its height."
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