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more because I have them in turn with other pleasures . I wish , Liese , you could be as busy as I have been lately . You do not know the pleasure of waking at dawn , and thinking , " I must be up and conning my task , or I shall not get it done to-day ; for there is nurse ' s new boddice to be made in the morning , and a letter to be written to my uncle at Frankfort , —and it takes a long time still to write a letter , —and poor little Wilhelm , who is so ill ,
to be looked to before dark , and my plants to be watered at sunset . " 0 ! it is such a pleasure to feel that the day is too short for what is to be done , and to lie down at night hoping to do more tomorrow ! When I was in our convent , I learned every thing more slowly , and took less pleasure in all I did every day . You know 1 told you then that I could not govern my mind like you , and be equally good in different places . Now I am in the way to be as good as you were there ; for the more I have to do , the better I do itf and the more pleasures I have , the more I enjoy them every one . ' Liese looked grave while she warned her young companion of the enticing snares of the world , and asked whether she did not find her time too short to perform her devotions properly . ' If you will believe me , ' replied Helena , * -I love God much more than I did when every body thought my whole time was spent in loving him . I have so much to thank him for now !' * Do you mean that you use the same prayers as often and as devoutly as in our convent ?'
' I do , indeed : and do you know , —I think I will tell you , whatever you may think of me , —I have found out another way of praying , which makes me all the more devout when I pray in the old way . I make prayers of my own . ' Instead of blaming Helena , Liese coloured crimson , and hid her face / murmuring ,, * O , Helena , so do I . I should have died if I had not . If we both wanted it so much , if we each found out the way , surely it cannot be a snare , as I have sometimes feared it was . ' € cannot be a snare , Liese , or it would not make us love God more , as I am sure it does me . ' * But Father Gottfried would not have allowed it . ' Helena lowered her voice as she replied , c was allowed by some who must have known as well as Father Gottfried . Give me Martin ' s bible , and I will show you where I learned this . You have not thrown it away , have you ?' Not Liese ! She went , making no objection to Helena ' s offer , and took her bible out of its corner of the press , where it lay wrapt in its silken covering . When Helena took it , she looked full at her friend , who coloured again and shrunk from observation , as if she had been guilty . * This book has been read , Liese , much read . It has been
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240 Liese ; or , the Progress of Worship .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/24/
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