Anger and
Indignation.

CHARLES. I don't think it is right for the Evangelist to say that he looked round with anger I don't think he ever was angry.

I think it means indignation.

GEORGE K. He looked angry.

LUCIA. He felt indignation.

FRANKLIN. I think they mistook the indignation for

anger.

MR. ALCOTT. Is the look of indignation different from that of anger?

EMMA. The look of indignation is not like that of anger.

CHARLES. No; there is disdain in indignation contempt for meanness. I don't think you can feel indignation without something of contempt.

MR. ALCOTT. Can anger be mistaken by the good? SOME. Yes.

MR. ALCOTT. Are they likely to do so, unless they are easily angry themselves?

CHARLES. Perhaps Mark was angry himself, and so thought Jesus was angry.

RECORDER. The word anger, in the time this translation of the Scriptures was made, did not mean any thing wrong. It merely meant trouble, agitation. Thus St. Paul says, "Be angry and sin not; " and in another part of the Bible it says, "God is angry with the wicked every day."

MR. ALCOTT. Anger generally refers to persons, and indignation to principles. I do not think any degree of anger is right on any occasion.

Paralysis.

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FRANKLIN. Is not a withered hand merely a palsied hand?

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MR. ALCOTT. It arises from a paralysis of the nerves of motion. The machinery by which the soul acts on the hand is out of order.

GEORGE K. I like the tenth and eleventh verses; "And behold there was a man, &c." I was interested in their asking whether it was lawful to heal on the Sabbath days? It was a catch.

MR. ALCOTT. Why did they wish to do this?

GEORGE K. They wanted to hear what he could say. LEMUEL. They wanted to accuse him before Pilate.

Awe of
Holiness.

FRANKLIN. When Jesus asked his questions, they held their peace, because they felt awe, they felt that they were in the wrong. CHARLES. That shows some good in them. FRANKLIN. I used to think they were struck dumb, but now I see that they felt awe.

MR. ALCOTT. Who has felt this awe sometimes among you?

(Several.)

Illustration.

Two little girls were standing in the parlor with their mother; and their father, looking

over his papers, found a beautiful picture, and gave it to the oldest little girl; and her sister, who was younger, in a moment of jealousy, said, "I don't like father." And her father said, "I will give you a picture ; " and he found another and gave it to her. And she said that it was not so pretty that she did not like her sister. And their father said to the oldest, "Will you give your beautiful picture to your little sister?" and she gave it to her immediately; but the younger sister did not look pleased. She held her head down, and looked unhappy. Bye and bye her father said to her, "Which is the best girl, the one who gives away her picture, or the one who takes it?" She replied, "the one who gives it away." Soon the father went out of the room; and the little

girl followed him, and said, "Father, I am going to give this picture back again ;" and so she went and gave it back to her sister. Why was this?

FRANKLIN. She was overawed.

CHARLES. I should think that she would not have taken it in the first place.

MR. ALCOTT. She is a very little girl, not four years old. How many of you understand the movements of that little girl's mind?

(Several held up hands.)

Do you think that the generosity of the sentiment expressed by Jesus, about saving the body on Sunday or any day, and the illustrations he used, overawed them? (They held up hands.)

Self-Knowledge.

What do you think of the questions of Jesus, "Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath day "?

GEORGE K. By asking that question they could answer their own.

MR. ALCOTT. Do you observe that he often talked in this interrogative way?

CHARLES. Yes.

MR. ALCOTT. How was he able always to strike at the state of their minds? Why was it that he knew their states of mind?

LUCIA. He knew about Human Nature by having studied himself.

MR. ALCOTT. Do you think that you have some of this knowledge, by which you can discover what is going on in other people's minds?

(George K. held up his hand.)

What is the innermost feeling in me now?

(None answered but George K.)

GEORGE K. That we should attend. Sometimes I answer a question by asking another.

MR. ALCOTT.

And so you understand this method of

Jesus? Who knows something of Human Nature, and can tell what is going on within others' minds? (Not many.)

Self-Insight.

I will see whether I know.

(He went on and made personal remarks, as to the present state of their minds, and asked whether he was right. Most acknowledged that he was right.)

MR. ALCOTT. Now what is my thought?

SEVERAL. You want us to attend.

MR. ALCOTT. How could Jesus know people's thoughts? By the same method of discovery that you would, if you discovered them?

Phases of
Spirit.

GORGE K. Yes; he learnt it as we learn

that people are happy by their smile.

CHARLES. He thought first of their words,

then their manners, then their faces.

MR. ALCOTT. Why is it that faces mean more to some people than to others?

CHARLES. Because they understand

faces.

MR. ALCOTT.

What is it that tells?

CHARLES. The Spirit—the judgment.

they examine

LEMUEL. Other people's spirits were like his; and

he knew his own, and so he knew others'.

MR. ALCOTT. Why don't we know?

FRANKLIN. Because we do not choose to try.

MR. ALCOTT. What gives the face its expression? FRANK. Mind. Spirit.

LEMUEL. Thoughts and feelings,

Self-Indulgence.

FRANKLIN.

MR. ALCOTT. What effect does self-indulgence give to the face?

It makes people's faces pale.

LEMUEL. It makes the face red,

Countenance of Spirit.

MR. ALCOTT. Who think that the shape of the face is made by the predominant feelings and thoughts?

(Almost all.)

Who think the appetites and passions do not affect the face?

(Some.)

Who think that your faces are as expressive as they would have been, had you lived as you ought?

(None held up hands.)

Emblems of the
Passions.

You may give me some emblems of indig

nation, when it shows itself forth in the -face.

(No answer for a long time.)

How did Jesus look?

FRANCIS. He looked sorrowful.

LUCIA. There was some degree of contempt.

MR. ALCOTT. Can you give an emblem of anger?

CHARLES. A tiger.

FRANKLIN. The elephant is indignant.

ANDREW. The hyena is the emblem of anger.

MR. ALCOTT.

Give an emblem of love,

GEORGE B. An angel.

LEMUEL. A dove.

MR. ALCOTT. An emblem of revenge,

GEORGE B. An Indian.

CHARLES. A lion.

FRANKLIN.

MR. ALCOTT.

Apollyon.

That is factitious.

FRANKLIN. No more so than an angel.

CHARLES. Certainly not.

MR. ALCOTT. Your emblems this morning do not seem to come; there is little imagination in them,