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Title: Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley
by his wife
Author: Charles Kingsley
Editor: Fanny Kingsley
Release Date: February 28, 2007 [eBook #20711]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1885 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price,
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DAILY THOUGHTS
Selected from the Writings OF CHARLES KINGSLEY
BY HIS WIFE
SECOND EDITION
London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1885
Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh.
This little Volume, selected from the MS. Note-books, Sermons and
Private Letters, as well as from the published Works of my Husband, is
dedicated to our children, and to all who feel the blessing of his
influence on their daily life and thought.
F. E. K.
July 10, 1884.

January.
Welcome, wild North-easter! Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr:
Ne'er a verse to thee. . . . . . Tired we are of summer, Tired of gaudy
glare, Showers soft and steaming, Hot and breathless air. Tired of
listless dreaming Through the lazy day: Jovial wind of winter Turn us
out to play! Sweep the golden reed-beds; Crisp the lazy dyke; Hunger
into madness Every plunging pike. Fill the lake with wild-fowl; Fill the
marsh with snipe; While on dreary moorlands Lonely curlew pipe.
Through the black fir forest Thunder harsh and dry, Shattering down
the snow-flakes Off the curdled sky. . . . . . Come; and strong within us
Stir the Viking's blood; Bracing brain and sinew: Blow, thou wind of
God!
Ode to North-east Wind.

New Year's Day. January 1. {3}
Gather you, gather you, angels of God-- Freedom and Mercy and Truth;
Come! for the earth is grown coward and old; Come down and renew
us her youth. Wisdom, Self-sacrifice, Daring, and Love, Haste to the
battlefield, stoop from above, To the day of the Lord at hand!
The Day of the Lord. 1847.

The Nineteenth Century. January 2.
Now, and at no other time: in this same nineteenth century lies our
work. Let us thank God that we are here now, and joyfully try to
understand where we are, and what our work is here. As for all
superstitions about "the good old times," and fancies that they belonged
to God, while this age belongs only to man, blind chance, and the evil
one, let us cast them from us as the suggestions of an evil lying spirit,
as the natural parents of laziness, pedantry, fanaticism, and unbelief.
And therefore let us not fear to ask the meaning of this present day, and
of all its different voices--the pressing, noisy, complex present, where
our workfield lies, the most intricate of all states of society, and of all
schools of literature yet known.
Introductory Lecture, Queen's College. 1848.

Forward. January 3.
Let us forward. God leads us. Though blind, shall we be afraid to
follow? I do not see my way: I do not care to: but I know that He sees
His way, and that I see Him.
Letters and Memories. 1848.

The Noble Life. January 4.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not
dream them all day long; And so make life, and death, and that For
Ever One grand sweet song.
A Farewell. 1856.
Live in the present that you may be ready for the future.
MS.

Duty and Sentiment. January 5.
God demands not sentiment but justice. The Bible knows nothing of
"the religious sentiments and emotions" whereof we hear so much talk
nowadays. It speaks of Duty. "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to
love one another."
National Sermons. 1851.

The Everlasting Harmony. January 6.
If thou art living a righteous and useful life, doing thy duty orderly and
cheerfully where God has put thee, then thou in thy humble place art
humbly copying the everlasting harmony and melody which is in
heaven; the everlasting harmony and melody by which God made the
world and all that therein is--and behold it was very good--in the day
when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted
for joy over the new- created earth, which God had made to be a pattern
of His own perfection.
Good News of God Sermons. 1859.

The Keys of Death and Hell. January 7.
Fear not. Christ has the keys of death and hell. He