October 6th.  Men may not know how fruits grow, but they do know that they cannot grow in five minutes.  Some lives have not even a stalk on which fruits could hang, even if they did grow in five minutes.  Some have never planted one sound seed of Joy in all their lives; and others who may have planted a germ or two have lived so little in sunshine that they never could come to maturity.  Pax Vobiscum, p. 51.

October 7th.  There is no mystery about Happiness whatever.  Put in the right ingredients and it must come out.  He that abideth in Him will bring forth much fruit; and bringing forth much fruit is Happiness.  The infallible receipt for Happiness, then, is to do good; and the infallible receipt for doing good is to abide in Christ.  Pax Vobiscum, p. 56.

October 8th.  Spend the time you have spent in sighing for fruits in fulfilling the conditions of their growth.  The fruits will come, must come. . . .  About every other method of living the Christian life there is an uncertainty.  About every other method of acquiring the Christian experiences there is a “perhaps.”  But in so far as this method is the way of nature, it cannot fail.  Pax Vobiscum, p. 58.

October 9th.  The distinctions drawn between men are commonly based on the outward appearance of goodness or badness, on the ground of moral beauty or moral deformity—­is this classification scientific?  Or is there a deeper distinction between the Christian and the not-a-Christian as fundamental as that between the organic and the inorganic?  Natural Law, p. 374.

October 10th What is the essential difference between the Christian and the not-a-Christian, between the spiritual beauty and the moral beauty?  It is the distinction between the Organic and the Inorganic.  Moral beauty is the product of the natural man, spiritual beauty of the spiritual man.  Natural Law, p. 380.

October 11th.  The first Law of biology is:  That which is Mineral is Mineral; that which is Flesh is Flesh; that which is Spirit is Spirit.  The mineral remains in the inorganic world until it is seized upon by a something called Life outside the inorganic world; the natural man remains the natural man, until a Spiritual Life from without the natural life seizes upon him, regenerates him, changes him into a spiritual man.  Natural Law, p. 381.

October 12th Suppose now it be granted for a moment that the character of the not-a-Christian is as beautiful as that of the Christian.  This is simply to say that the crystal is as beautiful as the organism.  One is quite entitled to hold this; but what he is not entitled to hold is that both in the same sense are living.  “He that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life.”  Natural Law, p. 382.

October 13th.  Man is a moral animal, and can, and ought to, arrive at great natural beauty of character.  But this is simply to obey the law of his nature—­the law of his flesh; and no progress along that line can project him into the spiritual sphere.  Natural Law, p. 382.