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I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to _wait_ for the spirit.
The most common effect of this mock evangelical spirit, especially with young women, is self-inflation and busy-bodyism.
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!