June 20

Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

I SUPPOSE you must be chiefly in a sick-room, which is a good place for one, and not altogether sad and unpleasant if one can find a way of soothing and ministering to others. In their weakness they need strength and calmness and cheerfulness, and that the world should be made as much like the world which they knew when in health as possible. They should look sometimes out of a window at fair scenes, and be read to out of their favourite books; and be taught to trust in God, in whose hands they are, and to whom they return. The most comforting passages of Scripture should be read to them, such as Psalm xxiii., or the later chapters of St. John. And the thought may be felt by us and imparted to them, that we and they are alike close to the Unseen, but they a little nearer, and we a few years farther off.

Letter from BENJAMIN JOWETT

THE CHOSEN