Nature is my religion. And my desire. . . my ambition. . . the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it. . . . . . if I can only get the two acquainted.
But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?