Tempo:
What
a world is this we live in!
What storms and tempests,
tornadoes and bitter, wintry blasts sweep across the souls of us poor sons and daughters of the Infinite !
Only threescore years
and ten our allotted span of life, and yet how many ages of cruel suffering and heart-racking agony are crowded within the leaves of its brief volume ! What does it all mean ?
Are we foredoomed
to drink the bitter cup in consequence of some fearful lege majeste in foregone ages ? Or, are all these bitternesses we endure but the chastening rod of Him who wields the destinies of the all that is ? Ah, how often the heart-reft children of sorrow the sad-hearted pilgrims of love ask themselves and the unlistening winds these questions !
Is there no answer ?
Are all of us to cry in vain for
a response to these vital askings ? I think not; for it seems to me that much of what we suffer in and from the heart, I mean is the result of blindness, almost wilful blindness to many things, laws, principles, easily understood, and which, if obeyed, bring happiness in their train.
In this book and its sequel I have en deavored to so clear up the path, that there need be no more mistakes in matters of the heart and affections. In the Sequel * to this volume I have said many things of vital * Before this volume was fairly off the press, many of the ladies of Boston who had heard that I was publishing it, called on me and suggested an enlargement of the volume, that I would write concerning “ Love and its Hidden Mystery," as well as its “
Hidden History; ” that I should state the great magnetic law; teach woman how to
a world is this we live in!
What storms and tempests,
tornadoes and bitter, wintry blasts sweep across the souls of us poor sons and daughters of the Infinite !
Only threescore years
and ten our allotted span of life, and yet how many ages of cruel suffering and heart-racking agony are crowded within the leaves of its brief volume ! What does it all mean ?
Are we foredoomed
to drink the bitter cup in consequence of some fearful lege majeste in foregone ages ? Or, are all these bitternesses we endure but the chastening rod of Him who wields the destinies of the all that is ? Ah, how often the heart-reft children of sorrow the sad-hearted pilgrims of love ask themselves and the unlistening winds these questions !
Is there no answer ?
Are all of us to cry in vain for
a response to these vital askings ? I think not; for it seems to me that much of what we suffer in and from the heart, I mean is the result of blindness, almost wilful blindness to many things, laws, principles, easily understood, and which, if obeyed, bring happiness in their train.
In this book and its sequel I have en deavored to so clear up the path, that there need be no more mistakes in matters of the heart and affections. In the Sequel * to this volume I have said many things of vital * Before this volume was fairly off the press, many of the ladies of Boston who had heard that I was publishing it, called on me and suggested an enlargement of the volume, that I would write concerning “ Love and its Hidden Mystery," as well as its “
Hidden History; ” that I should state the great magnetic law; teach woman how to
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