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SHORT STUDIES. 
We should :all, perhaps, have acknowledged this in 
words, It is happy for us that we do not all realize 
what the words mean. The minds of most of us 
would break under the strain. 
Other conventional beliefs, too, were quickened 
into startling realities. We had been hearing much 
in those days about the benevolence of the Supreme 
Being, and our corresponding obligation to charity 
and philanthropy. If£ the received creed was true, 
benevolence was by no means the only characteristic 
of that Being. What God loved we might love; 
but there were things which God did not love; 
accordingly we found Newman saying to us— 
Christian, would’st thou learn to love? 
First lcarn thece how to hate. 
Hatred of sin and zeal and fear 
Lead up the Holy Hill; 
Track them, till charity uppear 
A self-denial still. 
It was not austerity that made hım speak so. No 
one was more essentially tender-hearted. But he took 
the usually accepted Christian account of man and 
his destiny to be literally true, and the termble 
character of it weighed upon him. 
Sunt lacryme rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. 
Te could be gentle enough in otlıer moods. .‘ Lead,