Father and son : a study of two temperaments / by Edmund Gosse.

  • Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Father and son : a study of two temperaments / by Edmund Gosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    do we know of Eternity ? Of our relations to God ? Especially of the relations of a sinner to God ? What of reconciliation ? What of the capital question—How can a God of perfect spot- less rectitude deal with me, a corrupt sinner, who have trampled on those of His laws which were even written on my conscience ? . . . “ This dreadful conduct of yours I had in- tended, after much prayer, to pass by in entire silence ; but your apparently sincere inquiries after the cause of my sorrow have led me to go to the root of the matter, and I could not stop short of the development contained in this letter. It is with pain, not in anger, that I send it ; hoping that you may be induced to review the whole course, of which this is only a stage, before God. If this grace were granted to you, oh ! how joyfully should I bury all the past, and again have sweet and tender fellowship with my beloved Son, as of old.” ] ' ! The reader who has done me the favour to follow this record of the clash of two tempera- ments will not fail to perceive the crowning importance of the letter from which I have just made a long quotation. It sums up, with the closest logic, the whole history of the situation, and I may leave it to form the epigraph of this little book. All that I need further say is to point out