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Excerpt from Fellowship in Joy and Sorrow: A Sermon Preached in Her Majesty's Royal Chapel in Windsor Castle, on the Sunday Preceding the Marriage of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, March 8, 1863
Nor is this all. Even beyond it, there seems to be in us ourselves, as we are here on earth, a hidden sacramental union between joy and sorrow, even at the same time in the same heart. This may not indeed be perceived in the frivolous, who weep childish tears which dry as soon as they are shed, and laugh with an idle surface merriment in which the soul scarcely seems to join. But it is plainly marked in the working of deeper spirits. In them these highest fountain-heads of emotion lie close beside each other. In them great joy is a very solemn strain, and often finds its truest utterance in a sigh; it is a trembling mystery, which de clares itself outwardly rather by the welling over of the tear of delight than by the shallower acts of a noisy laughter. In them, if God has given to them the grace to yield themselves to His Will and to lie passive in His hands, a deep abiding grief is, not unfrequently, the best possession which life as it advances has left to them; for like the aroma which is shed around from the crushed leaf of the spice plant, with the bruising of their heart is min gled evermore in the stillness of their resignation the fragrance of undying recollections and the sweet breath of expectant hopes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
