Spiritual Letters of Edward Bouverie Pusey; Doctor of Divinity, Canon of Christ Church Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... LETTER I. To A Mother. Fifth Monday in Easter, 1847. May 3. You have indeed an anxious, yet blessed charge to rear so many young plants for Heaven. Yours seems Martha's office, tending Christ in those He has made His. Yet it need not distract one, so one endeavour to keep Him always before one. The mode of service, not the service, changes. There is often less time to be alone with God, but so you may learn to be with God in all you do, and do all to Him. Such is the way in which most must be perfected. Few have leisure. It is through and in toil that most must win God. Mary's lot is for most hereafter. Yet Mary's spirit may be amid Martha's toil. You will find, in whatever degree you can practise it, that the habit of committing single actions, again and again, through the day, to God, in their beginning, middle, end, does still the soul very much, and make life a continual living in the Presence of God. Not that I mean that you are not learning this (as all must be learning it), but that where there is much occupation, these two habits, (1) committing single actions or courses of action to God, (2) using short intervals of leisure for short prayers darted up to Him, do replace longer prayers. All life is business or brief leisure, and this provides for both.... With regard to external acts of reverence, I think with you, that any such acts as would excite general attention, B % as the 'kneeling in going out of Church, out of reverence to the Altar' or our Lord's gift of Himself to us there, are better avoided. At Christ Church, Oxford, it is a transmitted custom for the Canons to turn on leaving the choir and bow to the Altar. Elsewhere, I should not do so. But the Elements having been consecrated, I do myself think it a part of reverence not to let them ...