May 23

What a man comes to be when he becomes a Christian is a deeper, truer, more entire, more essential man. When the great ocean beats and gurgles over the reef that stands across the bay, and pours itself in upon the inlet which is a real part of its own life, the inlet shakes and trembles with the incoming of the sea; but by and by it

knows that thus, and thus only, has it come to be what it was made to be.