God Hath Not Given Us the Spirit of Fear
August 15.
God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind.
2 TIMOTHY 1, verse 7.
We cast behind fear, sin, and death;
With Thee we seek the things above;
Our inmost souls Thy spirit breathe,
Of power, of calmness, and of love.
HYMNS OF THE SPIRIT.
I must conclude with a more delightful subject,
my most dear and blessed sister. I never saw a more
perfect instance of the spirit of power and of
love, and of a sound mind; intense love, almost
to the annihilation of selfishness--a daily martyrdom
for twenty years, during which she adhered
to her early-formed resolution of never talking
about herself; thoughtful about the very pins and
ribands of my wife's dress, about the making of a
doll's cap for a child, but of herself, save only as
regarded her ripening in all goodness, wholly thoughtless;
enjoying everything lovely, graceful, beautiful,
high-minded, whether in God's works or man's, with
the keenest relish; inheriting the earth to the very
fulness of the promise, though never leaving
her crib, nor changing her posture; and preserved
through the very valley of the shadow of death,
from all fear or impatience, or from every cloud of
impaired reason, which might mar the beauty
of Christ's spirit's glorious work.
THOMAS ARNOLD.
God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind.
2 TIMOTHY 1, verse 7.
We cast behind fear, sin, and death;
With Thee we seek the things above;
Our inmost souls Thy spirit breathe,
Of power, of calmness, and of love.
HYMNS OF THE SPIRIT.
I must conclude with a more delightful subject,
my most dear and blessed sister. I never saw a more
perfect instance of the spirit of power and of
love, and of a sound mind; intense love, almost
to the annihilation of selfishness--a daily martyrdom
for twenty years, during which she adhered
to her early-formed resolution of never talking
about herself; thoughtful about the very pins and
ribands of my wife's dress, about the making of a
doll's cap for a child, but of herself, save only as
regarded her ripening in all goodness, wholly thoughtless;
enjoying everything lovely, graceful, beautiful,
high-minded, whether in God's works or man's, with
the keenest relish; inheriting the earth to the very
fulness of the promise, though never leaving
her crib, nor changing her posture; and preserved
through the very valley of the shadow of death,
from all fear or impatience, or from every cloud of
impaired reason, which might mar the beauty
of Christ's spirit's glorious work.
THOMAS ARNOLD.