Then let me fold my heart in peace,

And take the bitter cup;

Then shall I see the angel hand,

And with the angels sup.

As we pursue our life-journey, seeing, enjoying, learning, loving all this world affords, we shall keep pace with the progress of ascending souls, and be prepared at last to rejoin in Heaven those who journeyed with us here.

Now, here, in this initial world, is the time to commence a career of noble development, and not merely by strivings and strugglings, but by means of naturalness and truthfulness, without excess, deficiency or intemperance. Let us learn the preventive, let us feed and clothe this corporeal body, and sleep and toil so that happiness may incessantly flow and higher conditions of excellence be legitimately attained.

The disparity between man's powers and his performance is life's tragedy, its sorrows and its bitter disappointments. Man's life begins in discord, but harmony is his destiny, although long and toilsome is the journey to the summit of excellence. When we have the happiness to obtain a broad view of humanity, we will aid to prevent individual discord, and not by condemnation, not by methods and measures which exasperate and excite and madden and mortify, but by lifting up and drawing out and eliminating that which is inmost. In the lowest condition of man there are some glimmerings of the Divine. Look within thee, O man, and behold the imperishable! The best idea of thy Divine Progenitor is there; the inmost, the harmonial and the everlasting. Thou art master of, and wilt ultimately conquer, that which was inherited from incompatible and mismated progenitors, also everything acquired from false social

relations.

Fortiter! No weeping can restore thee;

The old-time sweetness or the old-time bliss ;
Take up thy cross and tread the path before thee;
Beyond it lies a better land than this.

Smile, though thy heart be aching-falter never;
Thank God that He has given strength to bear;
Life-binding ties, the hardest here to sever,

Are golden links of joy for us up there.

The mind needs to grasp the idea of a universal principle. Wounds of the soul, though healed, will ache; but pain is a living index of pleasure. The true thinker knows that there is nothing to fear in the Father's vineyard, neither is there an awful catastrophe to come to any spirit in the opening eternity.

Let us follow Jesus and assert the Supremacy of individualism. Let us worship at the shrine of GOD, JUSTICE, LIBERTY. Let us obey the Christ-principle, the principle of love. Then shall we die in Jesus and be richly blessed. Life, we've been long together,

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear,

Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear.

Then steal away, give little warning,

Choose thine own time;

Say not good night, but in some brighter clime,
Bid me good morning.

PART NINTH.

WISDOM NOT TESTED IN SCHOOLS.

THE SPIRITUAL MOLDS THE PRACTICAL.

The spiritual, it is still often said, but it is now not sufficiently considered, is the parent and first cause of the practical -molds it makes it; so that the saddest external condition of affairs among men is but evidence of a still sadder internal one; for, as thought is the life-fountain and motive-soul of action, so, in all religions of this human world, whatever outward thing offers itself to the eye, is merely the garment or body of a thing which already existed invisibly within, which, striving to give itself expression, has found, in given circumstances, that it could and would express itself so. This is everywhere true, and in these times, when men's attention is directed outward rather, this deserves far more attention than it receives.

Nature is a stupendous mystery until she declares herself to the human mind. If you would learn of truth—exact, never varying, beautiful, stern and perfect-examine the laws of planetary motion, the principles of cause and effect in all things. Justice, right and love and beauty are the lessons breathed from the constitution and adaptation of every natural object. The recording angel is the Law of Right-the central positive principle in nature-which is Harmony.

Search the sacred volume of nature through. Only with the soul that approaches nature with a worshipful spirit will she

commune.

And there is a grandeur in the visible forms of nature which can only be seen by a mind first duly impressed with their interior qualities. The mind which comprehends no more than that which is visible, understands very little of nature or the principles of being.

The germ of the spirit of goodness, of love and wisdom, of morality and happiness, is in man. Become instructed, therefore, concerning its existence and essential qualities, so that it may be caressed and fostered; so that it may send forth roots that will gather nourishment from the congenial elements around it, and spontaneously unfold a substantial body. The body is an outward expression of the inward mind, and they mutually influence, depend upon and express each other.

A cheerful intelligence sits upon the brow of the mastermind. In meeting certain persons, do we not perceive that there is either an excess or deficiency in their mentalities ? Other natures are large and opulent, from no definable or apparent reason. Their personal presence seems to fill the whole space. They may not utter a word, and yet their very silence—which is the twin of mystery and the chief indication of power-pours itself with eloquence into your consciousness. Other persons, however loquacious, impress you as being empty and void of soul. They may utter and write and do things that are precious and agreeable to your convictions may hold to ideas that are sympathetic with your long-cherished sentiments, may tell many truths to the people that you have long been waiting to hear uttered, and yet the same persons will impress you with hollowness of character, which repels you from them, and all this without any well-defined reason or cause that you can understand or express. They have not arisen to the noble feelings and large spiritual proportions of true human souls.

Oh, how glorious to have a natural conscience! The generous, who are always just, and the just, who are always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. Let there be honest and universal good-will in every bosom, and this responded to from all who are the objects of it by honest gratitude back again; let kindness, in all its various effects and manifestations, pass from one heart and countenance to another; let there be a universal courteousness in our streets, and let fidelity and affection and domestic virtues take up their secure and lasting abode in every family; let truth and honor and inviolate friendship between man and man banish all treachery and injustice from the world. By the purely mental interchange of these affections, there is generated a prodigious amount of happiness; and that altogether independent of the gratifications which are yielded by the material gifts of liberality on the one hand, or by material services of gratitude on the other. Then we should approximate very nearly to a state of perfect enjoyment; in other words, the bliss of Paradise would be fully realized upon earth.

Man is inevitably inter-related. Justice views the world and all its interests as already partitioned among the various members of the human population, each occupying his own little domain. It is a lamentable fact that the oneness of humanity is not felt through the accidents of social differences. He is the most insensible to the rights and interests of others who conceives the universe to be made for himself

alone.

Great souls are filled with love,

Great brows are calm;

Serene within their might, they soar above

The whirlwind and the storm.

In words the godly man is mute

In deeds he lives

Wouldst know the tree? Examine well the fruit!

The flower? the scent it gives!