Our Infinite Obligations To God Do Not

Affliction Is The School In Which Great Virtues Are Acquired, In Which Great Characters Are Formed.

Yes, Thou Art Ever Present, Power Divine; Not Circumscribed By Time, Nor Fixed By Space, Confined To Altars, Nor To Temples Bound. In Wealth, In Want, In Freedom, Or In Chains, In Dungeons Or On Thrones, The Faithful Find Thee.

How Short Is Human Life! The Very Breath Which Frames My Words Accelerates My Death.

It May Be In Morals As It Is In Optics, The Eye And The Object May Come Too Close To Each Other, To Answer The End Of Vision. There Are Certain Faults Which Press Too Near Our Self-love To Be Even Perceptible To Us.

The Soul On Earth Is An Immortal Guest.