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He had seen her in her house-dress, and his admiration for her intellect and beauty had added to itself a subtle quality, which rose from the potential husbandship and fatherhood within him. Now that he was out of her immediate presence, thoughts came thick and fast. Every word she had spoken seemed to have a magical power of arousing long trains of speculation.
The thought that He is in heaven deepens our reverence, love casting out fear, but making us more lowly. It leads to familiar yet awe-stricken approach. It exalts the preciousness of the Fatherhood, as being free from all weakness and all change. It reveals a better Father than we can know here; one not narrow of view, infirm of purpose, weak in tenderness, bounded in power.
It aims at the development of the whole man, at the preservation of unity and continuity in his conscious life; it aims at transforming man's native egotism to altruism; at developing the social side of his nature to such an extent that he may regard all men as his brothers; sharing with them the common Fatherhood of God.
But he did not indulge in sentimental sorrow. He believed in the Fatherhood of God, and that all things work for good to them that love Him. What a dawn it was!
I jested on the pregnancy with which she threatened me, and of which there was now no trace, pitying Count N for being deprived of the joys of fatherhood. I then gave her what money she required and took my leave. She escorted me to the door, and asked me if she should have the pleasure of seeing me again before long. "It's a pleasure, is it?"
About the extraordinary pictures he will draw of ships or cows the quaint stories he will invent the odd ways in which his gratitude and his affection express themselves? Is it a real fatherhood where such things do not appeal?
His endowment of motherhood is essentially a discharge of fatherhood, and should be so called. There can be no compromise, nothing but a fight to the finish, between the principle of endowing motherhood by making fatherhood less responsible, and the principle here fought for, of endowing motherhood by making fatherhood more responsible.
He could say, in every such crisis, "O God, my heart is fixed, my heart is fixed, trusting in Thee." Somehow or other the Lord would provide, and all he had to do was to serve and trust Him and leave the rest to His Fatherhood. In the autumn of 1841 it pleased God that, beyond any previous period, there should be a severe test of faith.
What a contradiction is here! He knows that the great unknown can not be proved to be our Father. Then he must know of the great unknown the negative aspects so minutely as to be sure that no Fatherhood is in the great unknown. Then he knows the great unknown much better than he is willing to admit, better than an agnostic ought.
This is a principle which may apply to many forms of insurance or provision, whether for old age or against invalidity; just as non-contributory old-age provisions are fundamentally wrong in principle, and have never been defended on any but party-political grounds of expedience, even by their advocates, so the "endowment of motherhood" which meant the complete liberation of fatherhood from its responsibilities would be wrong in principle.
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