e on which all the higher powers find their expression. It is a
fatal mistake to enter into the dark and unreasoning moods of every
unfortunately constituted person. To do this habitually is to so deplete
the forces of the spirit that one has nothing left. Let one keep his
heart and mind in the currents of the Divine Power; let him actively
follow the vision that is revealed to him, and he shall achieve and
realize his ideals. It is the law and the prophets. A force as
resistless as that of the attraction that holds the stars in their
courses will lead him on. "The love of God accomplishes all things
quietly and completely."

The mystic truth that lies enfolded in the words, "Cast thyself into the
will of God and thou shalt become as God," is one of marvellous potency.
To achieve the state of absolute peace and reconcilement with the Divine
will is to achieve poise and power. For to be thus "cast into the will
of God" means no mere languid acquiescence or hopeless, despairing
acceptance; it means no merely negative and passive state that accepts
the will of God for lack of sufficient stamina to assert its own will.
But, instead, it means an intelligent recognition of the divine order;
it means the will to gain the higher plane of life; it means the glad
entering into a new and finer atmosphere charged with the utmost
potency, and to become so receptive to it, so much a part of this energy
as to command its expression in various forms of activity. The "will of
God" is, indeed, the atmosphere of heavenly magnetism; it is liberation,
not captivity; it is achievement, not renunciation. People talk about
being "resigned" to the will of God; as well might they phrase being
"resigned" to Paradise! That has been an inconceivably false tradition
that repeated the prayer, "Thy will be done," as if it were the most
sorrowful, instead of the most joyful, petition.

There is another phase of experience into which those of a certain
sensitiveness of temperament are apt to fall when encountering the loss
or pain that, in one form or another, seems a part of the discipline of
the present life; a phase that can only be described as spiritual
loneliness and desolation, in which no effort seems possible. It is an
experience portrayed in the following stanzas:--

"I see a Spirit by thy side,
Purple-winged and eagle-eyed,
Looking like a heavenly guide.

Though he seems so bright and fair,
Ere thou trust his proffered care,