bottom and the side against the hill was
also ledge. On this side, close to the bottom, I caught that peculiar
movement of little particles of silvery sand, and looking more closely I
could see a cleft in the rock where the water came gushing and bubbling
in. Soon the entire spring became clear as crystal, and the water
finding evidently its old outlet, made its way down the little hillside.
I was soon able to trace and to uncover its course as it made its way to
the level place below.

As the summer went on I found myself going to the spot again and again.
Flowers that I found in no other part of the wood, before the autumn
came were blooming along the little watercourse. Birds in abundance came
to drink and to bathe. Several times I have found the half-tame deer
there. Twice we were but thirty to forty paces apart. They have watched
my approach, and as I stopped, have gone on with their drinking,
evidently unafraid--as if it were likewise their possession. And so it
is.

After spending a most valuable hour or two in the quiet there one
afternoon, I could not help but wonder as I walked home whether
perchance the spring may not be actually happy in being able to resume
its life, to fulfil, so to speak, its destiny; happy also in the service
it renders flowers and the living wild things--happy in the service it
renders even me. I am doubly happy and a hundred times repaid in the
little help I gave it. It needed help, to enable it effectively to keep
connection with its source. As it became gradually shut off from this,
it weakened, became then stagnant, and finally it ceased its active
life.

Containing a fundamental truth deeper perhaps than we realise, are these
words of that gifted seer, Emanuel Swedenborg: "There is only one
Fountain of Life, and the life of man is a stream therefrom, which if it
were not continually replenished from its source would instantly cease
to flow." And likewise these: "Those who think in the light of interior
reason can see that all things are connected by intermediate links with
the First Cause, and that whatever is not maintained in that connection
must cease to exist."

There is a mystic force that transcends any powers of the intellect or
of the body, that becomes manifest and operative in the life of man when
this God-consciousness becomes awakened and permeates his entire being.
Failure to realise and to keep in constant communion with our Source is
what causes fears, forebodi