ABSTRACT
Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. It is to keep a man awake, to keep him alive to his own soul and its fixed design of righteousness, that the better part of moral and religious education is directed; not only that of words and doctors, but the sharp ferule of calamity under which we are all God's scholars till we die. The one man might be wily, might be adroit, might be wise, might be respectable, might be gloriously useful; it is the other man who would be good. The soul asks honour and not fame; to be upright not to be successful; to be good not prosperous; to be essentially not outwardly respectable.
