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 "solitude, silence, and the strait keeping of the heart, those great springs of the spiritual life ," we shall return to the cares and turmoil of the world, and encounter the wilfulness and selfishness of men, with something of heaven within us; as the face of Moses still shone with the brightness of that glory whence he came, when he returned from the mount of God to the stiff-necked generation, among whom his lot was cast. For to these heights there is but one path—the path of humiliation and self-denial; the way of prayer and fasting and meditation in private; of labour and service in public; and he who would attain to them must resolve—"Lord, I will dwell in Thy temple and in Thy service; religion shall be my employment, and alms shall be my recreation, and patience shall be my rest, and to do Thy will shall be my meat and drink, and to live shall be Christ, and then to die shall be gain ."

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