We need a new, a deeper, a far more practical realization that the
ideals and visions which flash before us are the real mechanism of life;
that they are the working model by which one is to pattern his
experience, in outward selection and in grouping by means of his own
force of will. Somewhere has Emerson said,--

"All is waste and worthless till
Arrives the wise selecting will,"

which is, to the potential circumstances, like a magnet introduced among
filings that suddenly attracts to itself and draws all into related and
orderly groups. Circumstances are thus amenable to the power of will
brought to bear that selects, arranges, combines, after the pattern of
the revealed ideal held in view.

Each individual life may "borrow the might of the elements." Man is
created, not only in the image of God, but with God-like faculties and
potency, which, if he but truly relate them to the divine potency, if he
unite his will with God's will, there is then no limit, no bound to that
which he may achieve.

In one of the most wonderful creations of Vedder, the artist shows us
the figure of a woman whose eyes are closed, and whose hands, lying in
her lap, are inextricably entangled amid crewels and threads that bind
and hold them. But one sees, also, that she has but to open her eyes,
and lift her hands, and all the entanglement would fall off of itself.
The picture offers the most typical lesson of life. All imprisonment of
conditions is dissolved into thin air the instant one impresses his own
will-power on the affairs and circumstances of his life. He _can_ do
that which he _desires_ to do. The desire has only to be intensified
into conscious, intelligent choice, into absolute will,--and all the
minor barriers melt away and are no more. Every life may hitch its wagon
to a star. It may borrow the might of the elements. It has but to
resolve to hold its ideal firmly and clearly in mind, and it will then
be realized as the sculptor's dream in clay is realized in the marble.
"All things are yours," said Saint Paul. One has but to take his own; to
wisely and clearly select the elements and combine them by that
irresistible potency of mental magnetism and energy.

THE POWER OF THE EXALTED MOMENT.

"The salvation of Christ is the complete occupation of the human
life by the divine life."

_It is in our best moments, not in our worst moments, that we are
most truly ourselves. Oh believe in your