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mineral, and animal industrialism, and know my ground. 

 There are fearful gaps to fill up, and a thousand things to 

 learn, but I have had some of the same men all the three 

 years, and have interested even soap-makers in soap-making. 

 But all this is shockingly egotistical. The meaning is, that 

 we have a vocation, and will do our best in it. ... Have 

 we not all of us a thousand reasons for thanking God that 

 He has been so merciful to us, and that He has given us so 

 much occasion for gratefulness 1 . . . We are in the hands 

 of God, and know that our Redeemer liveth, and that our 

 life is hid with Christ in God. I have been thinking a great 

 deal about these things lately, and with many reproaches, 

 striving to live nearer the Unseen." 



