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nearly all my friends especially
the Clerical one.

Toronto August 26^th. Sunday,

A month has passed since
writing in this book. A great
deal has happened since then.

I have been thinking of that
verse "We love Him because
He first loved us"
& that in it we find classified
two distinct kinds of love: thus & that
the love which is given freely
spontaneously tho' the object of
affection may seem, may be
unworthy, the love so great that
in its heavenly light the beloved
one stands revealed (not in the
present deformity of the lower
nature), but as the noble being,
the purified soul which thro-