ly think to glorify ourselves and name each other saints! Did
Jesus call us saints? These glorifications mankind would appear to
bestow upon itself. He spoke of His flock, and of those who through
Him should have life eternal, and of those who, because of the road
they take, have their joys in this world only.

* * *

When I was being taught to pray for national things and for other
persons, and found these prayers answered, I was inclined to be
afraid; thinking, What am I that I should dare to petition the Most
High? But He showed it me so, which, as in everything, is for all of
us: "It is but a cloud which reflects the glories of the promise of My
rainbow; so can the dust, such as thyself, reflect yet other fashions
of My will and glory. There is no presumption in the cloud that it
should glow with My power; neither is there presumption in thy dust
that it should be My vehicle. Both the cloud and thy dust are Mine."

* * *

As we progress in this new way of living we find an increasing
difficulty in maintaining petition; for on commencing to petition we
will almost invariably be instantly lifted up to such a state of
adoration that the whole soul is nothing but a burning song, a thing
of living worship. At first I was inclined to blame myself, but now I
know that it is acceptable for us to pass from petitioning (no matter
who or what for) to high adoration, even though it is a great personal
indulgence (and the petitioning is a _hard task)--_an indulgence so
extreme that I cannot call to my mind anything in any experience or
time of my life, excepting actual raptures, which could, or can, in
any way compare or be named in the same breath with this most
marvellous joy; for out of this joy of adoration flows the Song of the
Soul.

And all these previous years of my life I have lived with the greater
part of me dead, and most persons the same! The more I think of it,
the more amazed I am at our folly--working and fretting, and
striving and looking for every kind of thing except the one thing,
beautiful, needful, and living, which is the finding of the personal
connection between ourselves and God and the Waters of Life.

Looking to my own experiences, I see clearly how I never could
have found without the most powerful and incessant assistance. We
are, then, never alone. But first we must have _the will to seek these
waters._ This is the secret of the whole matter. He can turn the vilest
into a pure lover--if the