alth; and modern medicine can never restore and assure health
to the body if it limit its problem to physical relief alone. Nor is
even this the end of the 'way' of Christ. Here alone is positive social
redemption.... Finally, the way is sure to lead every life which follows
it, and is willing to pay the price for the possession of truth, into
the region of spiritual peace."

Thus, in the end, "out of the midst of evil, issues at last the mastery
of the good." Thus moral progress itself is the witness of God.

Living by this faith, life becomes strong, serene, and radiant. "The
Magi have but to follow their Star in peace.... The Divine action
marvellously adjusts all things. The order of God sends each moment the
appropriate instrument for its work; and the soul, enlightened by faith,
finds all things good, desiring neither more nor less than she
possesses."

One of the great discourses of Phillips Brooks had for its theme the
lesson of not laying too much stress on the recognition of one's motives
or on any return of sympathetic consideration. "Let me not think," said
Doctor Brooks, "that I get nothing from the man who misunderstands all
my attempts to serve him, and who scorns me when I know that I deserve
his sympathy. Ah! it would be sad enough if only the men who understood
us and were grateful to us when we gave ourselves to them had help to
give us in return. The good reformer whom you try to help in his reform,
and who turns off from you contemptuously because he distrusts you,
seeing that your ways are different from his, he does not make you
happy,--he makes you unhappy; but he makes you good, he leads you to a
truer insight, a more profound unselfishness. And so (it is the old
lesson), not until goodness becomes the one thing that you desire, not
until you gauge all growth and gain by that, not until then can you
really know that the law has worked, the promise has been fulfilled.
With what measure you gave yourself to him, he has given himself--the
heart of himself,--which is not his favor, not his love, but his
goodness, the real heart of himself to you. For the rest you can easily
wait until you both come to the better world, where misconceptions shall
have passed away, and the outward forms and envelopes of things shall
correspond perfectly with their inner substances forever."

In the last analysis one comes to realize that happiness is a condition
depending solely on the relation of his soul to God;