Excerpt from Wings of the Morning: Essays and a Sermon for Lent and Other Seasons

Lent is for the depression of wrong tendencies, not right feelings.

It is a journey into the wilderness, because by that way alone can we reach the mountain top. It is a research into the deeper principles of religion, and into the purity of our own purposes, for the sake of discovering the Christ more clearly, and manifesting Him more worthily.

If our religion takes deeper root these forty days, the plant and flower and fruit of life will attest the value of the season.

If we find ourselves able to serve Him more cheerfully and joyfully, the journey to the mountain top has not been in vain.

Let us suspect the duty that is done without a single throb of joy, and the hour of worship that is spent without a single gladdening of the spirit, or the comniunion that has omitted the Sursum Corda.

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