ove and with uplifting power here are still laboring in the same way,
and in all probability with more earnest zeal, and with still greater
power.

"And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he
may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw:
and, behold, the mountain _was full of horses and chariots of fire_
round about Elisha."

While riding with a friend a few days ago, we were speaking of the
great interest people are everywhere taking in the more vital things of
life, the eagerness with which they are reaching out for a knowledge of
the interior forces, their ever increasing desire to know themselves
and to know their true relations with the Infinite. And in speaking of
the great spiritual awakening that is so rapidly coming all over the
world, the beginnings of which we are so clearly seeing during the
closing years of this, and whose ever increasing proportions we are to
witness during the early years of the coming century, I said, "How
beautiful if Emerson, the illumined one so far in advance of his time,
who labored so faithfully and so fearlessly to bring about these very
conditions, how beautiful if he were with us today to witness it all!
how he would rejoice!" "How do we know," was the reply, "that he is
not witnessing it all? and more, that he is not having a hand in it
all,--a hand even greater, perhaps, than when we _saw_ him here?"
Thank you, my friend, for this reminder. And, truly, "are they not all
ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs
of salvation?"

As science is so abundantly demonstrating today,--the things that we
see are but a very small fraction of the things that are. The real,
vital forces at work in our own lives and in the world about us are not
seen by the ordinary physical eye. Yet they are the causes of which
all things we see are merely the effects. Thoughts are forces; like
builds like, and like attracts like. For one to govern his thinking,
then, is to determine his life.

Says one of deep insight into the nature of things: "The law of
correspondences between spiritual and material things is wonderfully
exact in its workings. People ruled by the mood of gloom attract to
them gloomy things. People always discouraged and despondent do not
succeed in anything, and live only by burdening some one else. The
hopeful, confident, and cheerful attract the elements of success. A
man's front or back y