I have found what
are to be my two books of Bible study, my two Sabbath books for the term. They
are Neander's "History of the Church," and Conybeare and Howson's
"Life of St. Paul." I have commenced them both, and find that
satisfaction in them that is only met with by coming in contact with a
character,—gifted, scholarly and Christian.
How I should like to
live a free life with nature one year through! out in the bracing winds, the
keen frosty air, and over the crackling snowcrust, wherever I would; and then
in summer, seek the mountains or the sea, as I chose; no study, no thoughts,
but what came as a thing of course; no system, except nature's wild ways, which
have always their own harmony, evident enough when one enters into them, though
understood by no mere observer.
SOURCE: Daniel Dulany Addison, Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary, p. 116
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