Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Diary of Julia Ward Howe: October 6, 1865

Much excited about plans and prospects. Chev has bought the house in Boylston Place.1 God grant it may be for the best. Determine to have classes in philosophy, and to ask a reasonable price for my tickets. . . .

The Sunday's devotion without the week's thought and use is a spire without a meeting-house. It leaps upward, but crowns and covers nothing.

I have too often set down the moral weight I have to carry, and frisked around it. But the voice now tells me that I must bear it to the end, or lose it forever.
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1 No. 19.

SOURCE: Laura E. Richards & Maud Howe Elliott, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, Large-Paper Edition, Volume 1, p. 231

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