Discourse on the Aspects of the War: Delivered in the Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston on Fast Day, April 2, 1863 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Discourse on the Aspects of the War: Delivered in the Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston on Fast Day, April 2, 1863

There was another day of crisis, when you knew What it was to love. You found yourself caring more for another than for yourself, - going out Of your own life into that of another, finding a divine joy in adoring the beauty of another, following her with your thought, and feeding your life daily out of hers. This also was history. Those days may have long passed 'by. Perhaps you are a gray-headed man, known on change as a hard and keen man of business; no mortal suspects you of such a thing as sentiment. And yet, I will venture to say, there is somewhere among your papers, in some locked drawer of your bureau, a little faded packet of notes, with a withered flower which you cannot bear to throw away, - for it marks that critical period when you were all alive with an idea - when you were rapt away out of yourself into a seventh heaven. You were foolish as you could be, no doubt, - but - well, It was life; and you can never forget it.

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