directory-existence

Updated: May 27, 2025

And so it becomes an entirely practical question, which one may ask himself any morning, "Am I alive to-day, or am I dead? Is it only that I have the name of living, a sort of directory-existence, a page in the college records, a place in the list of my class, while in fact there is dry-rot in my soul?

Francis Greenwood Peabody - Mornings in the College Chapel: Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion