August 24. 1833
Consolation in Distress — -Mock Evangelicals — Autumn Day
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker’s mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.
The most common effect of this mock evangelical spirit, especially with young women, is self-inflation and busy-bodyism.
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!