rder of Happiness.
The difference is that of being safely on board a great steamer when
wind and wave are tempest-tossed, or of being helpless in the raging
waters. The storm may be precisely the same; the tempest may rage as it
will, but safe and secure in the cabin or stateroom, the voyager does
not mind its fury. And truly may this analogy be held in life. It is
possible to emerge from the winds and waves; to enter so entirely into
the sense of security in the Divine; to hold so absolutely the faith in
the Divine leading, that even in the midst of trial and loss and
deprivation and sorrow, one shall come to _know_, through his own
experience, that "the soul is ceaselessly joyful." For it is one thing
to accept a truth theoretically, or believe it intuitively, and another
to prove it through experience that shall test the quality of faith and
conviction. Learning this supreme truth of life through outward
experiences as well as through inner revelation is a victory of the will
that may even make itself an epoch, a landmark, in spiritual progress.

It is the complete recognition of that invincible aid given to the soul
through the "ever-present" aid of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.

"Jesus, the Christ, this one perfect character, has come into the world
and lived in it; filling all the moulds of action, all the terms of
duty, and love, with His own divine manners, works, and charities,"
wrote Doctor Horace Bushnell. "All the conditions of our life are raised
thus by the meaning He has shown to be in them and the grace He has put
upon them. The world itself is changed and is no more the same that it
was; it has never been the same since Jesus left it. The air is charged
with heavenly odors, and a kind of celestial consciousness, a sense of
other worlds, is wafted on us in its breath. It were easier to untwist
all the beams of light in the sky, separating and expunging one of the
colors, than to get the character of Jesus, which is the real gospel,
out of the world."

The one deepest need of the world to-day; the one deepest need of each
individual, is the more actual realization of the personality of Christ.
The perspective of nineteen hundred years only brings more vividly
before the mind, more close to the spiritual apprehension, the personal
holiness of Jesus, and enforces the truth that shall redeem
humanity,--the practical possibility of the increasing achievement of
this personal holiness for every man and woma