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In my childhood I could not imagine a more afflictive punishment , than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night : the very idea was terrible ; more than the idea I never felt , for , happily , I never [ Page 34 ] committed a crime that was deemed worthy of such a penalty ; but once , I remember , for some transgression of my sister 's , our mother thought proper to inflict it upon her ; what she felt , I cannot tell ; but my sympathetic tears and suffering for her sake , I shall not soon forget . For on natural principles it is more feasible for one to have dominion over many , than for many to have dominion over one . Now , there is nothing more troublesome and disconcerting when you have something on your mind which must be spoken , and have determined to speak it , and brought round the conversation to the point at which it might naturally be spoken , than for your companion to decline all communication upon the one to you absorbing subject , and to diverge into the commonplace interests of daily life . And it is more to you to win heaven , being ships of greater burden , and in the main sea , than for little vessels , that are not so much in the mercy and reverence of the storms , because they may come quietly to their port by launching amongst the coast . For the Son of God to suffer for sin was a more glorious establishment of the government of God , than for the whole race to suffer .