stomed to look up.
In the order of nature, always the leaders will lead. What the strong
and saintly receive with vivid impression and profound assurance, the
mass who feel their influence will accept a good deal on their
authority. The child will catch the faith of its father and mother.
But, further, in its very nature, that method of approach to the
highest reality which requires only goodness and open-heartedness and
love is available to the little child and to the simplest mind. When
Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek, the merciful, the peace-makers, the
pure in heart, they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness,"
every one understood him.

But it may be asked, Does this attitude bring man face to face with a
personal God? Personal he will be to some: to many the only solid and
adequate expression of a real being is a personal being. Nay, to many
only a human personality means anything. A great preacher and poet of
our day once said that he never thought of God except under the figure
of Christ,--a human figure in some human occupation and attitude. Let
Divinity body itself as Christ to minds so constituted. Let others
invoke "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." But impose no
constraint and lay no ban on those to whom, as Carlyle says, "the
Highest cannot be spoken of in words. Personal! Impersonal! One!
Three! What meaning can any mortal, after all, attach to them in
reference to such an object?" It is not these forms of thought that
are essential. What is essential is a way of living access to the
Highest.

The adequate conception--the keynote--must be one that is sufficient
alike for the every-day mood, for the exalted hours, and for the
emergencies. That keynote is given in this truth: that there is no
moment so dull or so hard but one can ask himself, What is the best the
situation allows? and conform to that; can open his eyes to some beauty
close at hand; can enter sympathetically into some neighboring life.

We prescribe to ourselves certain attitudes, and strive toward certain
ideals. But the supreme hours are those in which there flow in upon
our consciousness the inshinings and the upholdings of some unfathomed
Power. We are led, we are carried. We feel, we know not whence nor
how, a peace that passeth understanding and a love that casteth out
fear.

This is the substance of that religious experience in which throughout
the ages the heart of man has found its