This is what Helen says to Jane when she has just been humiliated by Mr. Brocklehurst:Hush, Jane! you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement; the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self, or than creatures feeble as you. Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to guard us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognise our innocence, and God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness- to glory?
2 comments:
That's a really beautiful passage. And so fitting coming from Charlotte Bronte, who was so surrounded by distress and death during her lifetime. I used to be petrified at the thought of dying, but the older I get and the more I grow in my walk, I realize that the end goal is to be with Christ. That is where the only real happiness exists. Thanks for the post, Wormie.
I finally bought the miniseries (the Timothy Dalton version) on DVD for Chana. We Netflix'd it a while back, and everyone in the family got into it. BTW-that is a great passage.
Hope your back is better!
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