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is also a nebulous feeling that while the will of God may be entirely
appropriate to the conditions and circumstances of the aged, the poor,
the unfortunate, and the defective classes, it is the last thing in the
world to be invoked for the young, the gifted, the strong, and the
brilliant orders of society. It is tacitly relegated to a place in some
last hopeless emergency, and not to a place in the creative energy of
the most brilliant achievement.

Now, as a matter of profoundest truth, this attitude is as remote from
the clear realization of what is involved in the will of God as would be
the conviction that the flying express train or the swift electric motor
cars might be suitable enough for the aged, and the weary, and the
invalid, and the people whose time was of little consequence, but that
the young, the radiant, the eager, the gifted, the people to whom time
was valuable, must go by their own conveyances of horse or foot under
their immediate personal control. This fallacy is no more remote from
truth than is the fallacy that the will of God is something to be
accepted with what decorum of resignation one may, only when he cannot
help it! On the contrary, the will of God is the infinitely great motor
of human life. Its power is as incalculably greater over the soul than
that of radium over other elements, as it is higher in the scale of
being; as spirit rather than substance; and the Life Radiant is really
entered upon when one has come absolutely to merge all his longing and
desire into the divine purposes. It is like availing one's self of the
great laws of attraction and gravitation in nature. With the human will
identified with the divine will, every day's experience becomes invested
with the keenest zest and interest. The events that may arise at any
moment enlist the energy and fascinate the imagination. The
consciousness of union with God produces an exquisite confidence in the
wise and sweet enchantment of life; the constant receptivity of the soul
to the influence and the guiding of the Holy Spirit make an atmosphere
ecstatic, even under the most commonplace or outwardly depressing
circumstances. Celestial harmonies thrill the air. In this divine
atmosphere--the soul's native air--every energy is quickened. The divine
realm is as truly the habitat of the spiritual man--who, temporarily
inhabiting a physical body that he may thus come into relations with a
physical world, is essentially a spiritual r