Octavius Winslow, The Sympathy Of Christ – ‘In a world like this, where there is so much evil to correct, so much temptation to resist, so much sorrow to soothe, so much want to supply, so much misery to counteract, so much ignorance to instruct, so much good to be done, none need be… idle, dreaming away existence, vegetating in selfishness, not living for man or laboring for God… Life is too real, too solemn, too responsible, (too short), for sluggishness, inactivity, and selfishness. We are gliding down the stream onward to eternity. Shall we spend our fleeting moments in grasping at the floating straw… Souls are perishing, ignorance of the gospel is prevailing – iniquity is abounding – Satan is unslumbering… Shall we not, then, be active and earnest in a world like this?’ – pp.200-201 (published in June 1862)