as not to affect that delicate
omnipresent consciousness, nothing so vast as to transcend it."

In the most literal sense we live and move and have our being in the
realm of spiritual forces. "Our life is hid with Christ in God." That
assertion is no mere mystic phase, but a plain and direct assertion of
an absolute spiritual truth. Our real life, all our significant action,
is in the invisible realm, and the manifestation in the physical sphere
is simply the results and effects of which the processes and causes are
all in the ethereal world. Prayer, in all its many and varied phases, is
simply activity on the spiritual side, and because of this it is the
motor of life. It is the key to that intense form of energy which is the
divine life, and its highest development is reached when the soul asks
only for one thing,--the one that includes all others,--that of union
with God.

"Anxiety and misgiving," wrote Fenelon, "proceed solely from love of
self. The love of God accomplishes all things quietly and completely; it
is not anxious or uncertain. The spirit of God rests continually in
quietness. Perfect love casteth out fear. It is in forgetfulness of self
that we find peace. Happy is he who yields himself completely,
unconsciously, and finally to God. Listen to the inward whisper of His
Spirit and follow it--that is enough; but to listen one must be silent,
and to follow one must yield."

The quiet and perfect obedience to the divine will, taught by Fenelon,
has nothing in common with a mere passive and blind acceptance of events
as they occur. Obedience to the Heavenly Vision is not in standing
still, but in following. It finds its best expression in energy and not
in inactivity. The more absolutely one abandons himself to the divine
will, the more unceasingly will he fill every hour with effort toward
the working out of the higher and the more ideal conditions. An ideal
once revealed is meant to be realized. That is the sole reason for its
being revealed at all, and the way of life is to unfalteringly work
toward its realization. It is a curious fact that there can be no
achievement of life so improbable or so impossible that it cannot be
realized by the power--the absolutely invincible power--of mental
fidelity. Let one hold his purpose in thought, and the unseen forces
thus generated are working for it day and night. Like one of the new
inventions in electricity, so thought--a force infinitely more potent
tha