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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13677 ***
+
+"Beautiful Thoughts" From Henry Drummond
+
+Arranged by Elizabeth Cureton
+
+{Project Gutenberg Editorial note: Many quotes from "The Greatest Thing
+in the World" did not provide a page number.}
+
+
+1892
+
+
+The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly
+seen, being understood by the things that are made.--Rom. i. 20.
+
+
+To My Dear Friend
+
+Helen M. Archibald
+
+This Book
+
+Is Affectionately Inscribed.
+
+
+
+Preface.
+
+My first thought of writing out this little book of brief selections
+sprang from the desire to assist a dear friend to enjoy the Author's
+helpful books.
+
+The epigrammatic style lends itself to quotation. Taste of the spring
+brings the traveller back to the same fountain on a day of greater
+leisure. Many times these "Beautiful Thoughts" have enlightened my
+darkness, and I send them forth with a hope and prayer that they may find
+echo in other hearts. E. C.
+
+January 1st. Christianity wants nothing so much in the world as sunny
+people, and the old are hungrier for love than for bread, and the Oil of
+Joy is very cheap, and if you can help the poor on with a Garment of
+Praise it will be better for them than blankets. The Programme of
+Christianity, p. 33.
+
+January 2d. No one who knows the content of Christianity, or feels the
+universal need of a Religion, can stand idly by while the intellect of
+his age is slowly divorcing itself from it. Natural Law, Preface, p. 22
+
+January 3d. A Science without mystery is unknown; a Religion without
+mystery is absurd. However far the scientific method may penetrate the
+Spiritual World, there will always remain a region to be explored by a
+scientific faith. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 28.
+
+January 4th. Among the mysteries which compass the world beyond, none is
+greater than how there can be in store for man a work more wonderful, a
+life more God-like than this. The Programme of Christianity, p. 62.
+
+January 5th. The Spiritual Life is the gift of the Living Spirit. The
+spiritual man is no mere development of the Natural man. He is a New
+Creation born from Above. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 65.
+
+January 6th. Love is success, Love is happiness, Love is life. God is
+Love. Therefore LOVE. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 7th. Give me the Charity which delights not in exposing the
+weakness of others, but "covereth all things." The Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+January 8th. There is a sense of solidity about a Law of Nature which
+belongs to nothing else in the world. Here, at last, amid all that is
+shifting, is one thing sure; one thing outside ourselves, unbiassed,
+unprejudiced, uninfluenced by like or dislike, by doubt or fear. . . .
+This more than anything else makes one eager to see the Reign of Law
+traced in the Spiritual Sphere. Natural Law, Preface, p. 23.
+
+January 9th. With Nature as the symbol of all of harmony and beauty that
+is known to man, must we still talk of the supernatural, not as a
+convenient word, but as a different order of world, . . . where the Reign
+of Mystery supersedes the Reign of Law? Natural Law, Introduction, p. 6.
+
+January 10th. The Reign of Law has gradually crept into every department
+of Nature, transforming knowledge everywhere into Science. The process
+goes on, and Nature slowly appears to us as one great unity, until the
+borders of the Spiritual World are reached. Natural Law, Introduction, p.
+13.
+
+January 11th. No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in
+Religion. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 30.
+
+January 12th. I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to
+"raise" faith to knowledge. To me, the way of truth is to come through
+the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then,
+making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge into faith. Natural
+Law, Introduction, p. 28. Quotation from Beck:  Bib. Psychol.
+
+January 13th. If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the
+purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion.
+Natural Law, Introduction, p. 31.
+
+January 14th. With the demonstration of the naturalness of the
+supernatural, scepticism even may come to be regarded as unscientific.
+And those who have wrestled long for a few bare truths to ennoble life
+and rest their souls in thinking of the future will not be left in doubt.
+Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
+
+January 15th. The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more
+from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.
+Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 67.
+
+January 16th. It is impossible to believe that the amazing successions of
+revelations in the domain of Nature, during the last few centuries, at
+which the world has all but grown tired wondering, are to yield nothing
+for the higher life. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
+
+January 17th. Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every
+man and woman every day has a thousand of them. Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+January 18th. What is Science but what the Natural World has said to
+natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to
+Spiritual men? Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 73.
+
+January 19th. Life depends upon contact with Life. It cannot spring up
+out of itself. It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life. There
+is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature. Christ
+is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son
+hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath
+not Life. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 74.
+
+January 20th. It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard,
+uncharitable world, there should still be left a few rare souls who think
+no evil. Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 21st. The physical Laws may explain the inorganic world; the
+biological Laws may account for the development of the organic. But of
+the point where they meet, of that strange borderland between the dead
+and the living, Science is silent. It is as if God had placed everything
+in earth and heaven in the hands of Nature, but reserved a point at the
+genesis of Life for His direct appearing. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p.
+69.
+
+January 22d. Except a mineral be born "from above"--from the Kingdom just
+ABOVE it--it cannot enter the Kingdom just above it. And except a man be
+born "from above," by the same law, he cannot enter the Kingdom just
+above him. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 72.
+
+January 23d. If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see
+that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them.
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 24th. The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life
+is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all
+is how better we can love. Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 25th What a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls
+and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds.
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 26th. The test of Religion, the final test of Religion, is not
+Religiousness, but Love. Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 27th. There are not two laws of Bio-genesis, one for the natural,
+the other for the Spiritual; one law is for both. Where-ever there is
+Life, Life of any kind, this same law holds. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p.
+75.
+
+January 28th. The first step in peopling these worlds with the
+appropriate living forms is virtually miracle. Nor in one case is there
+less of mystery in the act than in the other. The second birth is
+scarcely less perplexing to the theologian than the first to the
+embryologist. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 76.
+
+January 29th. There may be cases--they are probably in the majority--
+where the moment of contact with the Living Spirit, though sudden, has
+been obscure. But the real moment and the conscious moment are two
+different things. Science pronounces nothing as to the conscious moment.
+If it did, it would probably say that that was seldom the real moment--
+The moment of birth in the natural world is not a conscious moment--we
+do not know we are born till long afterward. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p.
+93.
+
+January 30th. The stumbling-block to most minds is perhaps less the mere
+existence of the unseen than the want of definition, the apparently
+hopeless vagueness, and not least, the delight in this vagueness as mere
+vagueness by some who look upon this as the mark of quality in Spiritual
+things. It will be at least something to tell earnest seekers that the
+Spiritual World is not a castle in the air, of an architecture unknown
+to earth or heaven, but a fair ordered realm furnished with many familiar
+things and ruled by well-remembered Laws. Natural Law, Introduction, p.
+26.
+
+January 31st. Character grows in the stream of the world's life. That
+chiefly is where men are to learn love. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+February 1st. If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps
+muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in
+his soul, no strength of character, no vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty
+of Spiritual growth. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+February 2d. A Religion without mystery is an absurdity. Even Science has
+its mysteries, none more inscrutable than around this Science of Life. It
+taught us sooner or later to expect mystery, and now we enter its domain.
+Let it be carefully marked, however, that the cloud does not fall and
+cover us till we have ascertained the most momentous truth of Religion--
+that Christ is in the Christian. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 88.
+
+February 3d. Religion in having mystery is in analogy with all around it.
+Where there is exceptional mystery in the Spiritual World it will
+generally be found that there is a corresponding mystery in the natural
+world. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 91.
+
+February 4th. Even to earnest minds the difficulty of grasping the truth
+at all has always proved extreme. Philosophically, one scarcely sees
+either the necessity or the possibility of being born again. Why a
+virtuous man should not simply grow better and better until in his own
+right he enter the Kingdom of God is what thousands honestly and
+seriously fail to understand. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 80.
+
+February 5th. Lavish Love upon our equals, where it is very difficult,
+and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. The Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+February 6th. Spiritual Life is not something outside ourselves. The idea
+is not that Christ is in heaven and that we can stretch out some
+mysterious faculty and deal with Him there. This is the vague form in
+which many conceive the truth, but it is contrary to Christ's teaching
+and to the analogy of nature. Life is definite and resident; and
+Spiritual Life is not a visit from a force, but a resident tenant in the
+soul. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 87.
+
+February 7th. If we neglect almost any of the domestic animals, they will
+rapidly revert to wild and worthless forms. Now, the same thing exactly
+would happen in the case of you or me. Why should man be an exception to
+any of the laws of nature? Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 99.
+
+February 8th. The law of Reversion to Type runs through all creation. If
+a man neglect himself for a few years he will change into a worse and a
+lower man. If it is his body that he neglects, he will deteriorate into a
+wild and bestial savage. . . . If it is his mind, it will degenerate into
+imbecility and madness. . . . If he neglect his conscience, it will run
+off into lawlessness and vice. Or, lastly, if it is his soul, it must
+inevitably atrophy, drop off in ruin and decay. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 99.
+
+February 9th. Three possibilities of life, according to Science, are open
+to all living organisms--Balance, Evolution, and Degeneration. Natural
+Law, Degeneration, p. 100.
+
+February 10th. The life of Balance is difficult. It lies on the verge of
+continual temptation, its perpetual adjustments become fatiguing, its
+measured virtue is monotonous and uninspiring. Natural Law, Degeneration,
+p. 101.
+
+February 11th. More difficult still, apparently, is the life of ever
+upward growth. Most men attempt it for a time, but growth is slow; and
+despair overtakes them while the goal is far away. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 101.
+
+February 12th. Degeneration is easy. Why is it easy? Why but that already
+in each man's very nature this principle is supreme? He feels within his
+soul a silent drifting motion impelling him downward with irresistible
+force. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 101.
+
+February 13th. This is Degeneration--that principle by which the
+organism, failing to develop itself, failing even to keep what it has
+got, deteriorates, and becomes more and more adapted to a degraded form
+of life. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 101.
+
+February 14th. It is a distinct fact by itself, which we can hold and
+examine separately, that on purely natural principles the soul that is
+left to itself unwatched, uncultivated, unredeemed, must fall away into
+death by its own nature. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 104.
+
+February 15th. If a man find the power of sin furiously at work within
+him, dragging his whole life downward to destruction, there is only one
+way to escape his fate--to take resolute hold of the upward power, and be
+borne by it to the opposite goal. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 108.
+
+February 16th. Neglect does more for the soul than make it miss
+salvation. It despoils it of its capacity for salvation. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 110.
+
+February 17th. Give pleasure. Lose no chance in giving pleasure. For that
+is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. Greatest
+Thing in the World.
+
+February 18th. If there were uneasiness there might be hope. If there
+were, somewhere about our soul, a something which was not gone to sleep
+like all the rest; if there were a contending force anywhere; if we would
+let even that work instead of neglecting it, it would gain strength from
+hour to hour, and waken up, one at a time, each torpid and dishonoured
+faculty, till our whole nature became alive with strivings against self,
+and every avenue was open wide for God. Natural Law, Degeneration, p.
+112.
+
+February 19th. Where is the capacity for heaven to come from if it be not
+developed on earth? Where, indeed, is even the smallest appreciation of
+God and heaven to come from when so little of spirituality has ever been
+known or manifested here? Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 116.
+
+February 20th. Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an
+atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there
+is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only
+an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect. Natural Law, Degeneration, p.
+115.
+
+February 21st. Escape means nothing more than the gradual emergence of
+the higher being from the lower, and nothing less. It means the gradual
+putting off of all that cannot enter the higher state, or heaven, and
+simultaneously the putting on of Christ. It involves the slow completing
+of the soul and the development of the capacity for God. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 117.
+
+February 22d. If, then, escape is to be open to us, it is not to come to
+us somehow, vaguely. We are not to hope for anything startling or
+mysterious. It is a definite opening along certain lines which are
+definitely marked by God, which begin at the Cross of Christ, and lead
+direct to Him. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 117.
+
+February 23d. Each man, in the silence of his own soul, must work out
+this salvation for himself with fear and trembling--with fear, realizing
+the momentous issues of his task; with trembling, lest, before the tardy
+work be done, the voice of Death should summon him to stop. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 118.
+
+February 24th. So cultivate the soul that all its powers will open out to
+God, and in beholding God be drawn away from sin. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 118.
+
+February 25th. There is a Sense of Sight in the religious nature. Neglect
+this, leave it undeveloped, and you never miss it. You simply see
+nothing. But develop it and you see God. Natural Law, Degeneration, p.
+118.
+
+February 26th. Become pure in heart. The pure in heart shall see God.
+Here, then, is one opening for soul-culture--the avenue through purity of
+heart to the spiritual seeing of God. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 119.
+
+February 27th. There is a Sense of Sound. Neglect this, leave it
+undeveloped, and you never miss it. Develop it, and you hear God. And the
+line along which to develop it is known to us. Obey Christ. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 119.
+
+February 28th He who loves will rejoice in the Truth, rejoice not in what
+he has been taught to believe; not in this Church's doctrine or in that;
+not in this issue, or in that issue; but "in the Truth." He will accept
+only what is real; he will strive to get at facts; he will search for
+Truth with a humble and unbiassed mind, and cherish whatever he finds at
+any sacrifice. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 1st. "Consider the lilies of the field how they grow." Christ made
+the lilies and He made me--both on the same broad principle. Both
+together, man and flower . . .; but as men are dull at studying
+themselves. He points to this companion-phenomenon to teach us how to
+live a free and natural life, a life which God will unfold for us,
+without our anxiety, as He unfolds the flower. Natural Law, Growth, p.
+123.
+
+March 2d. Our efforts after Christian growth seem only a succession of
+failures, and, instead of rising into the beauty of holiness, our life is
+a daily heart-break and humiliation. Natural Law, Growth, p. 125.
+
+March 3d. The lilies grow, Christ says, of themselves; they toil not,
+neither do they spin. They grow, that is, automatically, spontaneously,
+without trying, without fretting, without thinking. Natural Law, Growth,
+p. 126.
+
+March 4th. Violent efforts to grow are right in earnestness, but wholly
+wrong in principle. There is but one principle of growth both for the
+natural and spiritual, for animal and plant, for body and soul. For all
+growth is an organic thing. And the principle of growing in grace is once
+more this, "Consider the lilies how they grow." Natural Law, Growth, p.
+125.
+
+March 5th. Earnest souls who are attempting sanctification by struggle,
+instead of sanctification by faith, might be spared much humiliation by
+learning the botany of the Sermon on the Mount. Natural Law, Growth, p.
+127.
+
+March 6th. There is only one thing greater than happiness in the world,
+and that is holiness; and it is not in our keeping; but what God HAS put
+in our power is the happiness of those about us, and that is largely to
+be secured by our being kind to them. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 7th. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the
+hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness of eloquence behind which
+lies no love. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 8th. Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy;
+unselfishness; good-temper; guilelessness; sincerity--these make up the
+supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man. The Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+March 9th. We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man.
+We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ spoke much of peace on
+earth. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 10th. If God is spending work upon a Christian, let him be still
+and know that it is God. And if he wants work, he will find it there--in
+the being still. Natural Law, Growth, p. 137.
+
+March 11th. If the amount of energy lost in trying to grow were spent in
+fulfilling rather the conditions of growth, we should have many more
+cubits to show for our stature. Natural Law, Growth, p. 137.
+
+March 12th. The conditions of growth, then, and the inward principle of
+growth being both supplied by Nature, the thing man has to do, the little
+junction left for him to complete, is to apply the one to the other. He
+manufactures nothing; he earns nothing; he need be anxious for nothing;
+his one duty is to be IN these conditions, to abide in them, to allow
+grace to play over him, to be still and know that this is God. Natural
+Law, Growth, p. 138.
+
+March 13th. A man will often have to wrestle with his God--but not for
+growth. The Christian life is a composed life. The Gospel is Peace. Yet
+the most anxious people in the world are Christians--Christians who
+misunderstand the nature of growth. Life is a perpetual self-condemning
+because they are not growing. Natural Law, Growth, p. 139.
+
+March 14th. All the work of the world is merely a taking advantage of
+energies already there. Natural Law, Growth, p. 140.
+
+March 15th. Religion is not a strange or added thing; but the inspiration
+of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this
+temporal world. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 16th. The stature of the Lord Jesus was not itself reached by work,
+and he who thinks to approach its mystical height by anxious effort is
+really receding from it. Natural Law, Growth, p. 127.
+
+March 17th. For the Life must develop out according to its type; and
+being a germ of the Christ-life, it must unfold into a Christ. Natural
+Law, Growth, p. 129.
+
+March 18th. The sneer at the godly man for his imperfections is
+ill-judged. A blade is a small thing. At first it grows very near the
+earth. It is often soiled and crushed and downtrodden. But it is a living
+thing,. . . and "it doth not yet appear what it shall be." Natural Law,
+Growth, p. 129.
+
+March 19th. Christ's protest is not against work, but against anxious
+thought. Natural Law, Growth, p. 136.
+
+March 20th. If God is adding to our spiritual stature, unfolding the new
+nature within us, it is a mistake to keep twitching at the petals with
+our coarse fingers. We must seek to let the Creative Hand alone. "It is
+God which giveth the increase." Natural Law, Growth, p. 137.
+
+March 21st. Love is PATIENCE. This is the normal attitude of Love; Love
+passive, Love waiting to begin; not in a hurry; calm; ready to do its
+work when the summons comes, but meantime wearing the ornament of a meek
+and quiet spirit. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 22d. Have you ever noticed how much of Christ's life was spent in
+doing kind things? The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 23d. I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much
+the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts.
+How infallibly it is remembered. How superabundantly it pays itself back
+--for there is no debtor in the world so honourable, so superbly
+honourable as Love. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 24th. To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever
+is to live forever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up with
+love. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 25th. Man is a mass of correspondences, and because of these,
+because he is alive to countless objects and influences to which lower
+organisms are dead, he is the most living of all creatures. Natural Law,
+Death, p. 155.
+
+March 26th. All organisms are living and dead--living to all within the
+circumference of their correspondences, dead to all beyond. . . . Until
+man appears there is no organism to correspond with the whole
+environment. Natural Law, Death, p. 155.
+
+March 27th. Is man in correspondence with the whole environment or is he
+not? . . . He is not. Of men generally it cannot be said that they are in
+living contact with that part of the environment which is called the
+spiritual world. Natural Law, Death, p. 156.
+
+March 28th. The animal world and the plant world are the same world. They
+are different parts of one environment. And the natural and spiritual are
+likewise one. Natural Law, Death, p. 157.
+
+March 29th. What we have correspondence with, that we call natural; what
+we have little or no correspondence with, that we call Spiritual. Natural
+Law, Death, p. 157.
+
+March 30th. Those who are in communion with God live, those who are not
+are dead. Natural Law, Death, p. 158.
+
+March 31st. This earthly mind may be of noble calibre, enriched by
+culture, high-toned, virtuous, and pure. But if it know not God? What
+though its correspondences reach to the stars of heaven or grasp the
+magnitudes of Time and Space? The stars of heaven are not heaven. Space
+is not God. Natural Law, Death, p. 158.
+
+April 1st. We do not picture the possessor of this carnal mind as in any
+sense a monster. We have said he may be high-toned, virtuous, and pure.
+The plant is not a monster because it is dead to the voice of the bird;
+nor is he a monster who is dead to the voice of God. The contention at
+present simply is that he is DEAD. Natural Law, Death, p. 159.
+
+April 2d. What is the creed of the Agnostic, but the confession of the
+spiritual numbness of humanity? Natural Law, Death, p. 160.
+
+April 3d. The nescience of the Agnostic philosophy is the proof from
+experience that to be carnally minded is Death. Natural Law, p. 161.
+
+April 4th. The Christian apologist never further misses the mark than
+when he refuses the testimony of the Agnostic to himself. When the
+Agnostic tells me he is blind and deaf, dumb, torpid, and dead to the
+spiritual world, I must believe him. Jesus tells me that. Paul tells me
+that. Science tells me that. He knows nothing of this outermost circle;
+and we are compelled to trust his sincerity as readily when he deplores
+it as if, being a man without an ear, he professed to know nothing of a
+musical world, or being without taste, of a world of art. Natural Law,
+Death, p. 160.
+
+April 5th. It brings no solace to the unspiritual man to be told he is
+mistaken. To say he is self-deceived is neither to compliment him nor
+Christianity. He builds in all sincerity who raises his altar to the
+UNKNOWN God. He does not know God. With all his marvellous and complex
+correspondences, he is still one correspondence short. Natural Law,
+Death, p. 161.
+
+April 6th. Only one thing truly need the Christian envy, the large, rich,
+generous soul which "envieth not." The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 7th. Whenever you attempt a good work you will find other men doing
+the same kind of work, and probably doing it better. Envy them not. The
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 8th. I say that man believes in a God, who feels himself in the
+presence of a Power which is not himself, and is immeasurably above
+himself, a Power in the contemplation of which he is absorbed, in the
+knowledge of which he finds safety and happiness. Natural Law, Death, p.
+162.
+
+April 9th. What men deny is not a God. It is the correspondence. The very
+confession of the Unknowable is itself the dull recognition of an
+Environment beyond themselves, and for which they feel they lack the
+correspondence. It is this want that makes their God the Unknown God. And
+it is this that makes them DEAD. Natural Law, Death, p. 163.
+
+April 10th. God is not confined to the outermost circle of environment,
+He lives and moves and has His being in the whole. Those who only seek
+Him in the further zone can only find a part. The Christian who knows not
+God in Nature, who does not, that is to say, correspond with the whole
+environment, most certainly is partially dead. Natural Law, Death, p.
+163.
+
+April 11th. After you have been kind, after Love has stolen forth into
+the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and
+say nothing about it. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 12th. The absence of the true Light means moral Death. The darkness
+of the natural world to the intellect is not all. What history testifies
+to is, first the partial, and then the total eclipse of virtue that
+always follows the abandonment of belief in a personal God. Natural Law,
+Death, p. 167.
+
+April 13th. The only greatness is unselfish love. . . . There is a great
+difference between TRYING TO PLEASE and GIVING PLEASURE. The Greatest
+Thing in the World.
+
+April 14th. The conception of a God gives an altogether new colour to
+worldliness and vice. Worldliness it changes into heathenism, vice into
+blasphemy. The carnal mind, the mind which is turned away from God, which
+will not correspond with God--this is not moral only but spiritual Death.
+And Sin, that which separates from God, which disobeys God, which CAN not
+in that state correspond with God--this is hell. Natural Law, Death, p.
+169.
+
+April 15th. If sin is estrangement from God, this very estrangement is
+Death. It is a want of correspondence. If sin is selfishness, it is
+conducted at the expense of life. Its wages are Death--"he that loveth
+his life," said Christ, "shall lose it." Natural Law, Death, p. 170.
+
+April 16th. Obviously if the mind turns away from one part of the
+environment it will only do so under some temptation to correspond with
+another. This temptation, at bottom, can only come from one source--the
+love of self. The irreligious man's correspondences are concentrated upon
+himself. He worships himself. Self-gratification rather than self-denial;
+independence rather than submission--these are the rules of life. And
+this is at once the poorest and the commonest form of idolatry. Natural
+Law, p. 170.
+
+April 17th. You will find . . . that the people who influence you are
+people who believe in you. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 18th. The development of any organism in any direction is dependent
+on its environment. A living cell cut off from air will die. A seed-germ
+apart from moisture and an appropriate temperature will make the ground
+its grave for centuries. Human nature, likewise, is subject to similar
+conditions. It can only develop in presence of its environment. No matter
+what its possibilities may be, no matter what seeds of thought or virtue,
+what germs of genius or of art, lie latent in its breast, until the
+appropriate environment present itself the correspondence is denied, the
+development discouraged, the most splendid possibilities of life remain
+unrealized, and thought and virtue, genius and art, are dead. Natural
+Law, p. 171.
+
+April 19th. The true environment of the moral life is God. Here
+conscience wakes. Here kindles love. Duty here becomes heroic; and that
+righteousness begins to live which alone is to live forever. But if this
+Atmosphere is not, the dwarfed soul must perish for mere want of its
+native air. And its Death is a strictly natural Death. It is not an
+exceptional judgment upon Atheism. In the same circumstances, in the same
+averted relation to their environment, the poet, the musician, the
+artist, would alike perish to poetry, to music, and to art. Natural Law,
+p. 171.
+
+April 20th. Every environment is a cause. Its effect upon me is exactly
+proportionate to my correspondence with it. If I correspond with part of
+it, part of myself is influenced. If I correspond with more, more of
+myself is influenced; if with all, all is influenced. If I correspond
+with the world, I become worldly; if with God, I become Divine. Natural
+Law, Death, p. 171.
+
+April 21st. You can dwarf a soul just as you can dwarf a plant, by
+depriving it of a full environment. Such a soul for a time may have a
+"name to live." Its character may betray no sign of atrophy. But its very
+virtue somehow has the pallor of a flower that is grown in darkness, or
+as the herb which has never seen the sun, no fragrance breathes from its
+spirit. Natural Law, p. 173.
+
+April 22d. I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing,
+therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human
+being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall
+not pass this way again. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 23d. There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in
+giving . . . half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of
+happiness. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 24th. No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not
+drunkenness itself, does more to un-Christianize society than evil
+temper. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 25th. How many prodigals are kept out of the Kingdom of God by the
+unlovely character of those who profess to be inside! The Greatest Thing
+in the World.
+
+April 26th. A want of patience, a want of kindness, a want of generosity,
+a want of courtesy, a want of unselfishness, are all instantaneously
+symbolized in one flash of Temper. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 27th. Souls are made sweet not by taking the acid fluids out, but
+by putting something in--a great Love, a new Spirit--the Spirit of
+Christ. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 28th. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours,
+sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This only can eradicate what is
+wrong, work a chemical change, renovate and regenerate, and rehabilitate
+the inner man. Will-power does not change men. Time does not change men.
+Christ does. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 29th Guilelessness is the grace for suspicious people. And the
+possession of it is the great secret of personal influence. You will
+find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are
+people who believe in you. In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up;
+but in that atmosphere they expand, and find encouragement and educative
+fellowship. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 30th. Do not quarrel . . . with your lot in life. Do not complain
+of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have
+to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with. The
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+May 1st. The moment the new life is begun there comes a genuine anxiety
+to break with the old. For the former environment has now become
+embarrassing. It refuses its dismissal from consciousness. It competes
+doggedly with the new Environment for a share of the correspondences. And
+in a hundred ways the former traditions, the memories and passions of the
+past, the fixed associations and habits of the earlier life, now
+complicate the new relation. The complex and bewildered soul, in fact,
+finds itself in correspondence with two environments, each with urgent
+but yet incompatible claims. It is a dual soul living in a double world,
+a world whose inhabitants are deadly enemies, and engaged in perpetual
+civil war. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 179.
+
+May 2d. How can the New Life deliver itself from the still-persistent
+past? A ready solution of the difficulty would be TO DIE. . . . If we
+cannot die altogether, . . . the most we can do is to die as much as we
+can. . . . To die to any environment is to withdraw correspondence with
+it, to cut ourselves off, so far as possible, from all communication with
+it. So that the solution of the problem will simply be this, for the
+spiritual life to reverse continuously the processes of the natural life.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 180.
+
+May 3d. The spiritual man having passed from Death unto Life, the natural
+man must next proceed to pass from Life unto Death. Having opened the new
+set of correspondences, he must deliberately close up the old.
+Regeneration in short must be accompanied by Degeneration. Natural Law,
+Mortification, p. 181.
+
+May 4th. The peculiar feature of Death by Suicide is that it is not only
+self-inflicted but sudden. And there are many sins which must either be
+dealt with suddenly or not at all. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 183.
+
+May 5th. If the Christian is to "live unto God," he must "die unto sin."
+If he does not kill sin, sin will inevitably kill him. Recognizing this,
+he must set himself to reduce the number of his correspondences--
+retaining and developing those which lead to a fuller life,
+unconditionally withdrawing those which in any way tend in an opposite
+direction. This stoppage of correspondences is a voluntary act, a
+crucifixion of the flesh, a suicide. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 182.
+
+May 6th. Do not resent temptation; do not be perplexed because it seems
+to thicken round you more and more, and ceases neither for effort nor for
+agony nor prayer. That is your practice. That is the practice which God
+appoints you; and it is having its work in making you patient, and
+humble, and generous, and unselfish, and kind, and courteous. The
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+May 7th. It is a peculiarity of the sinful state, that as a general rule
+men are linked to evil mainly by a single correspondence. Few men break
+the whole law. Our natures, fortunately, are not large enough to make us
+guilty of all, and the restraints of circumstances are usually such as to
+leave a loophole in the life of each individual for only a single
+habitual sin. But it is very easy to see how this reduction of our
+intercourse with evil to a single correspondence blinds us to our true
+position. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 186.
+
+May 8th. One little weakness, we are apt to fancy, all men must be
+allowed, and we even claim a certain indulgence for that apparent
+necessity of nature which we call our besetting sin. Yet to break with
+the lower environment at all, to many, is to break at this single point.
+Natural Law, p. 186.
+
+May 9th. There may be only one avenue between the new life and the old,
+it may be but a small and SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE, but this is sufficient to
+keep the old life in. So long as that remains the victim is not "dead
+unto sin," and therefore he cannot "live unto God." Natural Law, p. 187.
+
+May 10th. Do not grudge the hand that is moulding the still too shapeless
+image within you. It is growing more beautiful, though you see it not,
+and every touch of temptation may add to its perfection. Therefore keep
+in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men, and among
+things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. The Greatest
+Thing in the World.
+
+May 11th. Contemplate the love of Christ, and you will love. Stand before
+that mirror, reflect Christ's character, and you will be changed into the
+same image from tenderness to tenderness. There is no other way. You
+cannot love to order. You can only look at the lovely object, and fall in
+love with it, and grow into likeness to it. The Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+May 12th. In the natural world it only requires a single vital
+correspondence of the body to be out of order to ensure Death. It is not
+necessary to have consumption, diabetes, and an aneurism to bring the
+body to the grave, if it have heart disease. He who is fatally diseased
+in one organ necessarily pays the penalty with his life, though all the
+others be in perfect health. And such, likewise, are the mysterious unity
+and correlation of functions in the spiritual organism that the disease
+of one member may involve the ruin of the whole. Natural Law,
+Mortification, p. 187.
+
+May 13th. To break altogether, and at every point, with the old
+environment, is a simple impossibility. So long as the regenerate man is
+kept in this world he must find the old environment at many points a
+severe temptation. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 190.
+
+May 14th. Power over very many of the commonest temptations is only to be
+won by degrees, and however anxious one might be to apply the summary
+method to every case, he soon finds it impossible in practice. Natural
+Law, Mortification, p. 190.
+
+May 15th. The ill-tempered person . . . can make very little of his
+environment. However he may attempt to circumscribe it in certain
+directions, there will always remain a wide and ever-changing area to
+stimulate his irascibility. His environment, in short, is an inconstant
+quantity, and his most elaborate calculations and precautions must often
+and suddenly fail him. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 191.
+
+May 16th. What the ill-tempered person has to deal with, . . . mainly, is
+the correspondence, the temper itself. And that, he well knows, involves
+a long and humiliating discipline. The case is not at all a surgical but
+a medical one, and the knife is here of no more use than in a fever. A
+specific irritant has poisoned his veins. And the acrid humours that are
+breaking out all over the surface of his life are only to be subdued by a
+gradual sweetening of the inward spirit. Natural Law, Mortification, p.
+191.
+
+May 17th. The man whose blood is pure has nothing to fear. So he whose
+spirit is purified and sweetened becomes proof against these germs of
+sin. "Anger, wrath, malice and railing" in such a soil can find no root.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 192.
+
+May 18th. The Mortification of a member . . .is based on the Law of
+Degeneration. The useless member here is not cut off, but simply relieved
+as much as possible of all exercise. This encourages the gradual decay of
+the parts, and as it is more and more neglected it ceases to be a channel
+for life at all. So an organism "mortifies" its members. Natural Law,
+Mortification, p. 193.
+
+May 19th. Man's spiritual life consists in the number and fulness of his
+correspondences with God. In order to develop these he may be constrained
+to insulate them, to enclose them from the other correspondences, to shut
+himself in with them. In many ways the limitation of the natural life is
+the necessary condition of the full enjoyment of the spiritual life.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 195.
+
+May 20th. No man is called to a life of self-denial for its own sake. It
+is in order to a compensation which, though sometimes difficult to see,
+is always real and always proportionate. No truth, perhaps, in practical
+religion is more lost sight of. We cherish somehow a lingering rebellion
+against the doctrine of self-denial--as if our nature, or our
+circumstances, or our conscience, dealt with us severely in loading us
+with the daily cross. But is it not plain after all that the life of
+self-denial is the more abundant life--more abundant just in proportion
+to the ampler crucifixion of the narrower life? Is it not a clear case of
+exchange--an exchange, however, where the advantage is entirely on our
+side? We give up a correspondence in which there is a little life to
+enjoy a correspondence in which there is an abundant life. What though we
+sacrifice a hundred such correspondences? We make but the more room for
+the great one that is left. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 195.
+
+May 21st. Do not spoil your life at the outset with unworthy and
+impoverishing correspondences; and if it is growing truly rich and
+abundant, be very jealous of ever diluting its high eternal quality with
+anything of earth. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 196.
+
+May 22d. To concentrate upon a few great correspondences, to oppose to
+the death the perpetual petty larceny of our life by trifles--these are
+the conditions for the highest and happiest life. . . . The penalty of
+evading self-denial also is just that we get the lesser instead of the
+larger good. The punishment of sin is inseparably bound up with itself.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 196.
+
+May 23d. Each man has only a certain amount of life, of time, of
+attention--a definite measurable quantity. If he gives any of it to this
+life solely it is wasted. Therefore Christ says, Hate life, limit life,
+lest you steal your love for it from something that deserves it more.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 197.
+
+May 24th. To refuse to deny one's self is just to be left with the self
+undented. When the balance of life is struck, the self will be found
+still there. The discipline of life was meant to destroy this self, but
+that discipline having been evaded--and we all to some extent have
+opportunities, and too often exercise them, of taking the narrow path by
+the shortest cuts--its purpose is baulked. But the soul is the loser. In
+seeking to gain its life it has really lost it. Natural Law,
+Mortification, p. 196.
+
+May 25th. Suppose we deliberately made up our minds as to what things we
+were henceforth to allow to become our life? Suppose we selected a given
+area of our environment and determined once for all that our
+correspondences should go to that alone, fencing in this area all round
+with a morally impassable wall? True, to others, we should seem to live a
+poorer life; they would see that our environment was circumscribed, and
+call us narrow because it was narrow. But, well-chosen, this limited life
+would be really the fullest life; it would be rich in the highest and
+worthiest, and poor in the smallest and basest, correspondences. Natural
+Law, Mortification, p. 199.
+
+May 26th. The well-defined spiritual life is not only the highest life,
+but it is also the most easily lived. The whole cross is more easily
+carried than the half. It is the man who tries to make the best of both
+worlds who makes nothing of either. And he who seeks to serve two masters
+misses the benediction of both. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 199.
+
+May 27th. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the
+moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the
+moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As memory scans
+the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life, there
+leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do
+unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to
+speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life. The
+Greatest Thing in the World, p. 60.
+
+May 28th. No man can become a saint in his sleep; and to fulfil the
+condition required demands a certain amount of prayer and meditation and
+time, just as improvement in any direction, bodily or mental, requires
+preparation and care. Address yourselves to that one thing; at any cost
+have this transcendent character exchanged for yours. The Greatest Thing
+in the World, p. 60.
+
+May 29th. He who has taken his stand, who has drawn a boundary line,
+sharp and deep, about his religious life, who has marked off all beyond
+as for ever forbidden ground to him, finds the yoke easy and the burden
+light. For this forbidden environment comes to be as if it were not. His
+faculties falling out of correspondence, slowly lose their sensibilities.
+And the balm of Death numbing his lower nature releases him for the
+scarce disturbed communion of a higher life. So even here to die is gain.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 199.
+
+May 30th. Remain side by side with Him who loved us, and gave Himself for
+us, and you too will become a permanent magnet, a permanently attractive
+force; and like Him you will draw all men unto you, like Him you will be
+drawn unto all men. That is the inevitable effect of Love. Any man who
+fulfils that cause must have that effect produced in him. The Greatest
+Thing in the World, p. 45.
+
+May 31st. Try to give up the idea that religion comes to us by chance, or
+by mystery, or by caprice. It comes to us by natural law, or by
+supernatural law, for all law is Divine. The Greatest Thing in the World,
+p. 46.
+
+June 1st. We love others, we love everybody, we love our enemies, because
+He first loved us. . . . And that is how the love of God melts down the
+unlovely heart in man, and begets in him the new creature, who is patient
+and humble and gentle and unselfish. The Greatest Thing in the World, p.
+46.
+
+June 2d. The belief in Science as an aid to faith is not yet ripe enough
+to warrant men in searching there for witnesses to the highest Christian
+truths. The inspiration of Nature, it is thought, extends to the humbler
+doctrines alone. And yet the reverent inquirer who guides his steps in
+the right direction may find even now, in the still dim twilight of the
+scientific world, much that will illuminate and intensify his sublimest
+faith. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 204.
+
+June 3d. Life becomes fuller and fuller, richer and richer, more and more
+sensitive and responsive to an ever-widening Environment as we rise in
+the chain of being. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 207.
+
+June 4th. Before we reach an Eternal Life we must pass beyond that point
+at which all ordinary correspondences inevitably cease. We must find an
+organism so high and complex, that at some point in its development it
+shall have added a correspondence which organic death is powerless to
+arrest. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 213.
+
+June 5th. Uninterrupted correspondence with a perfect Environment is
+Eternal Life, according to Science. "This is Life Eternal," said Christ,
+"that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou
+hast sent." Life Eternal is to know God. To know God is to "correspond"
+with God. To correspond with God is to correspond with a Perfect
+Environment. And the organism which attains to this, in the nature of
+things, must live forever. Here is "eternal existence and eternal
+knowledge." Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 215.
+
+June 6th. To find a new Environment again and cultivate relation with it
+is to find a new Life. To live is to correspond, and to correspond is to
+live. So much is true in Science. But it is also true in Religion. And it
+is of great importance to observe that to Religion also the conception of
+Life is a correspondence. No truth of Christianity has been more
+ignorantly or wilfully travestied than the doctrine of Immortality. The
+popular idea, in spite of a hundred protests, is that Eternal Life is to
+live forever. . . . We are told that Life Eternal is not to live. This is
+Life Eternal--TO KNOW. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 216.
+
+June 7th. From time to time the taunt is thrown at Religion, not unseldom
+from lips which Science ought to have taught more caution, that the
+Future Life of Christianity is simply a prolonged existence, an eternal
+monotony, a blind and indefinite continuance of being. The Bible never
+could commit itself to any such empty platitude; nor could Christianity
+ever offer to the world a hope so colourless. Not that Eternal Life has
+nothing to do with everlastingness. That is part of the conception. And
+it is this aspect of the question that first arrests us in the field of
+Science. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 216.
+
+June 8th. Science speaks to us indeed of much more than numbers of years.
+It defines degrees of Life. It explains a widening Environment. It
+unfolds the relation between a widening Environment and increasing
+complexity in organisms. And if it has no absolute contribution to the
+content of Religion, its analogies are not limited to a point. It yields
+to Immortality, and this is the most that Science can do in any case, the
+broad framework for a doctrine. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 217.
+
+June 9th. To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal Unknowable,
+would be everlasting existence; to correspond with "the true God and
+Jesus Christ," is Eternal Life. The quality of the Eternal Life alone
+makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon. Even the brief
+span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years in
+sorrow. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 220.
+
+June 10th. To Christianity, "he that hath the Son of God hath Life, and
+he that hath not the Son hath not Life." This, as we take it, defines the
+correspondence which is to bridge the grave. This is the clue to the
+nature of the Life that lies at the back of the spiritual organism. And
+this is the true solution of the mystery of Eternal Life. Natural Law,
+Eternal Life, p. 227.
+
+June 11th. The relation between the spiritual man and his Environment is,
+in theological language, a filial relation. With the new Spirit, the
+filial correspondence, he knows the Father--and this is Life Eternal.
+Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 229.
+
+June 12th. It takes the Divine to know the Divine--but in no more
+mysterious sense than it takes the human to understand the human. The
+analogy, indeed, for the whole field here has been finely expressed
+already by Paul: "What man," he asks, "knoweth the things of a man, save
+the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no
+man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the
+world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that
+are freely given to us of God."--I. Cor. ii. 11, 12. Natural Law, Eternal
+Life, p. 229.
+
+June 13th. To go outside what we call Nature is not to go outside
+Environment. Nature, the natural Environment, is only a part of
+Environment. There is another large part, which, though some profess to
+have no correspondence with it, is not on that account unreal, or even
+unnatural. The mental and moral world is unknown to the plant. But it is
+real. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 232.
+
+June 14th. Things are natural or supernatural simply according to where
+one stands. Man is supernatural to the mineral; God is supernatural to
+the man. When a mineral is seized upon by the living plant and elevated
+to the organic kingdom, no trespass against Nature is committed. It
+merely enters a larger Environment, which before was supernatural to it,
+but which now is entirely natural. When the heart of a man, again, is
+seized upon by the quickening Spirit of God, no further violence is done
+to natural law. It is another case of the inorganic, so to speak, passing
+into the organic. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 232.
+
+June 15th. Correspondence in any case is the gift of Environment. The
+natural Environment gives men their natural faculties; the spiritual
+affords them their spiritual faculties. It is natural for the spiritual
+Environment to supply the spiritual faculties; it would be quite
+unnatural for the natural Environment to do it. The natural law of
+Bio-genesis forbids it; the moral fact that the finite cannot comprehend
+the Infinite is against it; the spiritual principle that flesh and blood,
+cannot inherit the Kingdom of God renders it absurd. Natural Law, Eternal
+Life, p. 233.
+
+June 16th. Organisms are not added to by accretion, as in the case of
+minerals, but by growth. And the spiritual faculties are organized in the
+spiritual protoplasm of the soul, just as other faculties are organized
+in the protoplasm of the body. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 233.
+
+June 17th. It ought to be placed in the forefront of all Christian
+teaching that Christ's mission on earth was to give men Life. "I am
+come," He said, "that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more
+abundantly." And that He meant literal Life, literal spiritual and
+Eternal Life, is clear from the whole course of His teaching and acting.
+Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 235.
+
+June 18th. The effort to detect the living Spirit must be at least as
+idle as the attempt to subject protoplasm to microscopic examination in
+the hope of discovering Life. We are warned, also, not to expect too
+much. "Thou canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth." Natural
+Law, Eternal Life, p. 237.
+
+June 19th. Many men would be religious if they knew where to begin; many
+would be more religious if they were sure where it would end. It is not
+indifference that keeps some men from God, but ignorance. "Good Master,
+what must I do to inherit Eternal Life?" is still the deepest question of
+the age. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 237.
+
+June 20th. The voice of God and the voice of Nature. I cannot be wrong if
+I listen to them. Sometimes, when uncertain of a voice from its very
+loudness, we catch the missing syllable in the echo. In God and Nature we
+have Voice and Echo. When I hear both, I am assured. My sense of hearing
+does not betray me twice. I recognize the Voice in the Echo, the Echo
+makes me certain of the Voice; I listen and I know. Natural Law, Eternal
+Life, p. 238.
+
+June 21st. The soul is a living organism. And for any question as
+to the soul's Life we must appeal to Life-science. And what does the
+Life-science teach? That if I am to inherit Eternal Life, I must
+cultivate a correspondence with the Eternal. Natural Law, Eternal Life,
+p. 239.
+
+June 22d. All knowledge lies in Environment. When I want to know about
+minerals I go to minerals. When I want to know about flowers I go to
+flowers. And they tell me. In their own way they speak to me, each in its
+own way, and each for itself--not the mineral for the flower, which is
+impossible, nor the flower for the mineral, which is also impossible. So
+if I want to know about Man, I go to his part of the Environment. And he
+tells me about himself, not as the plant or the mineral, for he is
+neither, but in his own way. And if I want to know about God, I go to His
+part of the Environment. And He tells me about Himself, not as a Man, for
+He is not Man, but in His own way. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 239.
+
+June 23d. Just as naturally as the flower and the mineral and the Man,
+each in their own way, tell me about themselves, He tells me about
+Himself. He very strangely condescends indeed in making things plain to
+me, actually assuming for a time the Form of a Man that I at my poor
+level may better see Him. This is my opportunity to know Him. This
+incarnation is God making Himself accessible to human thought--God
+opening to Man the possibility of correspondence through Jesus Christ.
+Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 240.
+
+June 24th. Having opened correspondence with the Eternal Environment, the
+subsequent stages are in the line of all other normal development. We
+have but to continue, to deepen, to extend, and to enrich the
+correspondence that has been begun. And we shall soon find to our
+surprise that this is accompanied by another and parallel process. The
+action is not all upon our side. The Environment also will be found to
+correspond. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 241.
+
+June 25th. Let us look for the influence of Environment on the spiritual
+nature of him who has opened correspondence with God. Reaching out his
+eager and quickened faculties to the spiritual world around him, shall he
+not become spiritual? In vital contact with Holiness, shall he not become
+holy? Breathing now an atmosphere of ineffable Purity, shall he miss
+becoming pure? Walking with God from day to day, shall he fail to be
+taught of God? Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 242.
+
+June 26th. Growth in grace is sometimes described as a strange, mystical,
+and unintelligible process. It is mystical, but neither strange nor
+unintelligible. It proceeds according to Natural Law, and the leading
+factor in sanctification is Influence of Environment. Natural Law,
+Eternal Life, p. 242.
+
+June 27th. Will the evolutionist who admits the regeneration of the frog
+under the modifying influence of a continued correspondence with a new
+environment, care to question the possibility of the soul acquiring such
+a faculty as that of Prayer, the marvellous breathing-function of the new
+creature, when in contact with the atmosphere of a besetting God? Is the
+change from the earthly to the heavenly more mysterious than the change
+from the aquatic to the terrestrial mode of life? Is Evolution to stop
+with the organic? If it be objected that it has taken ages to perfect the
+function in the batrachian, the reply is, that it will take ages to
+perfect the function in the Christian. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 244.
+
+June 28th. We have indeed spoken of the spiritual correspondence as
+already perfect--but it is perfect only as the bud is perfect. "It doth
+not yet appear what it shall be," any more than it appeared a million
+years ago what the evolving batrachian would be. Natural Law, Eternal
+Life, p. 244.
+
+June 29th. In a sense, all that belongs to Time belongs also to Eternity;
+but these lower correspondences are in their nature unfitted for an
+Eternal Life. Even if they were perfect in their relation to their
+Environment, they would still not be Eternal. . . . An Eternal Life
+demands an Eternal Environment. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 245.
+
+June 30th. The final preparation . . . for the inheriting of Eternal Life
+must consist in the abandonment of the non-eternal elements. These must
+be unloosed and dissociated from the higher elements, And this is
+effected by a closing catastrophe--Death. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p.
+248.
+
+July 1st. "Perfect correspondence," according to Mr. Herbert Spencer,
+would be "perfect Life." To abolish Death, therefore, all that would be
+necessary would be to abolish Imperfection. But it is the claim of
+Christianity that it can abolish Death. And it is significant to notice
+that it does so by meeting this very demand of Science--it abolishes
+Imperfection. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 249.
+
+July 2d. The part of the organism which begins to get out of
+correspondence with the Organic Environment is the only part which is in
+vital correspondence with it. Though a fatal disadvantage to the natural
+man to be thrown out of correspondence with this Environment, it is of
+inestimable importance to the spiritual man. For so long as it is
+maintained the way is barred for a further Evolution. And hence the
+condition necessary for the further Evolution is that the spiritual be
+released from the natural. That is to say, the condition of the further
+Evolution is Death. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 249.
+
+July 3d. The sifting of the correspondences is done by Nature. This is
+its last and greatest contribution to mankind. Over the mouth of the
+grave the perfect and the imperfect submit to their final separation.
+Each goes to its own--earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
+Spirit to Spirit. "The dust shall return to the earth as it was; and the
+Spirit shall return unto God who gave it." Natural Law, Eternal Life, p.
+249.
+
+July 4th. Few things are less understood than the conditions of the
+spiritual life. The distressing incompetence of which most of us are
+conscious in trying to work out our spiritual experience is due perhaps
+less to the diseased will which we commonly blame for it than to
+imperfect knowledge of the right conditions. It does not occur to us how
+natural the spiritual is. We still strive for some strange transcendent
+thing; we seek to promote life by methods as unnatural as they prove
+unsuccessful; and only the utter incomprehensibility of the whole region
+prevents us seeing fully--what we already half-suspect--how completely we
+are missing the road. Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.
+
+July 5th. Living in the spiritual world . . . is just as simple as living
+in the natural world; and it is the same kind of simplicity. It is the
+same kind of simplicity for it is the same kind of world--there are not
+two kinds of worlds. The conditions of life in the one are the conditions
+of life in the other. And till these conditions are sensibly grasped, as
+the conditions of all life, it is impossible that the personal effort
+after the highest life should be other than a blind struggle carried on
+in fruitless sorrow and humiliation. Natural Law, Environment, p. 257.
+
+July 6th. Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the
+organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are
+still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly
+understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to
+each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the
+old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at
+another to counteract one another, understands the rationale of personal
+development. Natural Law, Environment, p. 255.
+
+July 7th. To seize continuously the opportunity of more and more perfect
+adjustment to better and higher conditions, to balance some inward evil
+with some purer influence acting from without, in a word to make our
+Environment at the same time that it is making us--these are the secrets
+of a well-ordered and successful life. Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.
+
+July 8th. In the spiritual world . . . the subtle influences which form
+and transform the soul are Heredity and Environment. And here especially,
+where all is invisible, where much that we feel to be real is yet so ill
+defined, it becomes of vital practical moment to clarify the atmosphere
+as far as possible with conceptions borrowed from the natural life.
+Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.
+
+July 9th. What Heredity has to do for us is determined outside ourselves.
+No man can select his own parents. But every man to some extent can
+choose his own Environment. His relation to it, however largely
+determined by Heredity in the first instance, is always open to
+alteration. And so great is his control over Environment and so radical
+its influence over him, that he can so direct it as either to undo,
+modify, perpetuate, or intensify the earlier hereditary influences within
+certain limits. Natural Law, Environment, p. 257.
+
+July 10th. One might show how the moral man is acted upon and changed
+continuously by the influences, secret and open, of his surroundings, by
+the tone of society, by the company he keeps, by his occupation, by the
+books he reads, by Nature, by all, in short, that constitutes the
+habitual atmosphere of his thoughts and the little world of his daily
+choice. Or one might go deeper still and prove how the spiritual life
+also is modified from outside sources--its health or disease, its growth
+or decay, all its changes for better or for worse being determined by the
+varying and successive circumstances in which the religious habits are
+cultivated. Natural Law, Environment, p. 260.
+
+July 11th. In the spiritual world . . . he will be wise who courts
+acquaintance with the most ordinary and transparent facts of Nature; and
+in laying the foundations for a religious life he will make no unworthy
+beginning who carries with him an impressive sense of so obvious a truth
+as that without Environment there can be no life. Natural Law,
+Environment, p. 264.
+
+July 12th. There is in the spiritual organism a principle of life; but
+that is not self-existent. It requires a second factor, a something in
+which to live and move and have its being, an Environment. Without this
+it cannot live or move or have any being. Without Environment the soul is
+as the carbon without the oxygen, as the fish without the water, as the
+animal frame without the extrinsic conditions of vitality. Natural Law,
+Environment, p. 264.
+
+July 13th. What is the Spiritual Environment? It is God. Without this,
+therefore, there is no life, no thought, no energy, nothing---"without Me
+ye can do nothing." Natural Law, Environment, p. 265.
+
+July 14th. The cardinal error in the religious life is to attempt to live
+without an Environment. Spiritual experience occupies itself, not too
+much, but too exclusively, with one factor--the soul. We delight in
+dissecting this much-tortured faculty, from time to time, in search of a
+certain something which we call our faith--forgetting that faith is but
+an attitude, an empty hand for grasping an environing Presence. Natural
+Law, Environment, p 265.
+
+July 15th. When we feel the need of a power by which to overcome the
+world, how often do we not seek to generate it within ourselves by some
+forced process, some fresh girding of the will, some strained activity
+which only leaves the soul in further exhaustion? Natural Law,
+Environment, p. 265.
+
+July 16th. To examine ourselves is good; but useless unless we also
+examine Environment. To bewail our weakness is right, but not remedial.
+The cause must be investigated as well as the result. And yet, because we
+never see the other half of the problem, our failures even fail to
+instruct us. After each new collapse we begin our life anew, but on the
+old conditions; and the attempt ends as usual in the repetition--in the
+circumstances the inevitable repetition--of the old disaster. Natural
+Law, Environment, p. 265.
+
+July 17th. After seasons of much discouragement, with the sore sense upon
+us of our abject feebleness, we do confer with ourselves, insisting for
+the thousandth time, "My soul, wait thou only upon God." But, the lesson
+is soon forgotten. The strength supplied we speedily credit to our own
+achievement; and even the temporary success is mistaken for a symptom of
+improved inward vitality. Once more we become self-existent. Once more we
+go on living without an Environment. And once more, after days of wasting
+without repairing, of spending without replenishing, we begin to perish
+with hunger, only returning to God again, as a last resort, when we have
+reached starvation point. Natural Law, Environment, p. 266.
+
+July 18th. Why this unscientific attempt to sustain life for weeks at a
+time without an Environment? It is because we have never truly seen the
+necessity for an Environment. We have not been working with a principle.
+We are told to "wait only upon God," but we do not know why. It has never
+been as clear to us that without God the soul will die as that without
+food the body will perish. In short, we have never comprehended the
+doctrine of the Persistence of Force. Instead of being content to
+transform energy we have tried to create it. Natural Law, Environment, p.
+266.
+
+July 19th. Whatever energy the soul expends must first be "taken into it
+from without." We are not Creators, but creatures; God is our refuge AND
+STRENGTH. Communion with God, therefore, is a scientific necessity; and
+nothing will more help the defeated spirit which is struggling in the
+wreck of its religious life than a common-sense hold of this biological
+principle that without Environment he can do nothing. Natural Law,
+Environment, p. 267.
+
+July 20th. Who has not come to the conclusion that he is but a part, a
+fraction of some larger whole? Who does not miss, at every turn of his
+life, an absent God? That man is but a part, he knows, for there is room
+in him for more. That God is the other part, he feels, because at times
+He satisfies his need. Who does not tremble often under that sicklier
+symptom of his incompleteness, his want of spiritual energy, his
+helplessness with sin? But now he understands both--the void in his life,
+the powerlessness of his will. He understands that, like all other
+energy, Spiritual power is contained in Environment. He finds here at
+last the true root of all human frailty, emptiness, nothingness, sin.
+This is why "without Me ye can do nothing." Powerlessness is the normal
+state, not only of this, but of every organism--of every organism apart
+from its Environment. Natural Law, p. 268.
+
+July 21st. Friendship is the nearest thing we know to what religion is.
+God is love. And to make religion akin to Friendship is simply to give it
+the highest expression conceivable by man. The Changed Life, p. 49.
+
+July 22d. The entire dependence of the soul upon God is not an
+exceptional mystery, nor is man's helplessness an arbitrary and
+unprecedented phenomenon. It is the law of all Nature. The spiritual man
+is not taxed beyond the natural. He is not purposely handicapped by
+singular limitations or unusual incapacities. God has not designedly made
+the religious life as hard as possible. The arrangements for the
+spiritual life are the same as for the natural life. When, in their hours
+of unbelief, men challenge their Creator for placing the obstacle of
+human frailty in the way of their highest development, their protest is
+against the order of Nature. Natural Law, p. 269.
+
+July 23d. The organism must either depend on his environment, or be
+self-sufficient. But who will not rather approve the arrangement by which
+man in his creatural life may have unbroken access to an Infinite Power?
+What soul will seek to remain self-luminous when it knows that "The Lord
+God is a Sun?" Who will not willingly exchange his shallow vessel for
+Christ's well of living water. Natural Law, p. 270.
+
+July 24th. The New Testament is nowhere more impressive than where it
+insists on the fact of man's dependence. In its view the first step in
+religion is for man to feel his helplessness. Christ's first beatitude is
+to the poor in spirit. The condition of entrance into the spiritual
+kingdom is to possess the child-spirit--that state of mind combining at
+once the profoundest helplessness with the most artless feeling of
+dependence. Natural Law, p. 271.
+
+July 25th. Fruit-bearing without Christ is not an improbability, but an
+impossibility. As well expect the natural fruit to flourish without air
+and heat, without soil and sunshine. How thoroughly also Paul grasped
+this truth is apparent from a hundred pregnant passages in which he
+echoes his Master's teaching. To him life was hid with Christ in God. And
+that he embraced this, not as a theory but as an experimental truth, we
+gather from his constant confession, "When I am weak, then am I strong."
+Natural Law, p. 271.
+
+July 26th. One result of the due apprehension of our personal
+helplessness will be that we shall no longer waste our time over the
+impossible task of manufacturing energy for ourselves. Our science will
+bring to an abrupt end the long series of severe experiments in which we
+have indulged in the hope of finding a perpetual motion. And having
+decided upon this once for all, our first step in seeking a more
+satisfactory state of things must be to find a new source of energy.
+Following Nature, only one course is open to us. We must refer to
+Environment. The natural life owes all to Environment, so must the
+spiritual. Now the Environment of the spiritual life is God. As Nature,
+therefore, forms the complement of the natural life. God is the
+complement of the spiritual. Natural Law, p. 272.
+
+July 27th. Do not think that nothing is happening because you do not see
+yourself grow, or hear the whirr of the machinery. All great things grow
+noiselessly. You can see a mushroom grow, but never a child. Mr. Darwin
+tells us that Evolution proceeds by "numerous, successive, and slight
+modifications." The Changed Life, p. 54.
+
+July 28th. We fail to praise the ceaseless ministry of the great
+inanimate world around us only because its kindness is unobtrusive.
+Nature is always noiseless. All her greatest gifts are given in secret.
+And we forget how truly every good and perfect gift comes from without,
+and from above, because no pause in her changeless beneficence teaches us
+the sad lessons of deprivation. Natural Law, p. 274.
+
+July 29th. It is not a strange thing for the soul to find its life in
+God. This is its native air. God as the Environment of the soul has been
+from the remotest age the doctrine of all the deepest thinkers in
+religion. How profoundly Hebrew poetry is saturated with this high
+thought will appear when we try to conceive of it with this left out.
+Natural Law, p. 374.
+
+July 30th. The alternatives of the intellectual life are Christianity or
+Agnosticism. The Agnostic is right when he trumpets his incompleteness.
+He who is not complete in Him must be for ever incomplete. Natural Law,
+p. 278.
+
+July 31st. The problems of the heart and conscience are infinitely more
+perplexing than those of the intellect. Has love no future? Has right no
+triumph? Is the unfinished self to remain unfinished? The alternatives
+are two, Christianity or Pessimism. But when we ascend the further height
+of the religious nature, the crisis comes. There, without Environment,
+the darkness is unutterable. So maddening now becomes the mystery that
+men are compelled to construct an Environment for themselves. No
+Environment here is unthinkable. An altar of some sort men must have--
+God, or Nature, or Law. But the anguish of Atheism is only a negative
+proof of man's incompleteness. Natural Law, p. 279.
+
+August 1st. A photograph prints from the negative only while exposed to
+the sun. While the artist is looking to see how it is getting on he
+simply stops the getting on. Whatever of wise supervision the soul may
+need, it is certain it can never be over-exposed, or that, being exposed,
+anything else in the world can improve the result or quicken it. The
+Changed Life, pp. 56, 57.
+
+August 2d. What a very strange thing, is it not, for man to pray? It is
+the symbol at once of his littleness and of his greatness. Here the sense
+of imperfection, controlled and silenced in the narrower reaches of his
+being, becomes audible. Now he must utter himself. The sense of need is
+so real, and the sense of Environment, that he calls out to it,
+addressing it articulately, and imploring it to satisfy his need. Surely
+there is nothing more touching in Nature than this? Man could never so
+expose himself, so break through all constraint, except from a dire
+necessity. Natural Law, p. 279.
+
+August 3d. What is Truth? The natural Environment answers, "Increase of
+Knowledge increaseth Sorrow," and "much study is a Weariness." Christ
+replies, "Learn of Me, and ye shall find Rest." Contrast the world's word
+"Weariness" with Christ's word "Rest." No other teacher since the world
+began has ever associated "learn" with "Rest." Learn of me, says the
+philosopher, and you shall find Restlessness. Learn of Me, says Christ,
+and ye shall find Rest. Natural Law, p. 280.
+
+August 4th. Men will have to give up the experiment of attempting to live
+in half an Environment. Half an Environment will give but half a Life.
+. . . He whose correspondences are with this world alone has only a
+thousandth part, a fraction, the mere rim and shade of an Environment,
+and only the fraction of a Life. How long will it take Science to believe
+its own creed, that the material universe we see around us is only a
+fragment of the universe we do not see? Natural Law, p. 282.
+
+August 5th. The Life of the senses, high and low, may perfect itself in
+Nature. Even the Life of thought may find a large complement in
+surrounding things. But the higher thought, and the conscience, and the
+religious Life, can only perfect themselves in God. Natural Law, p. 283.
+
+August 6th. To make the influence of Environment stop with the natural
+world is to doom the spiritual nature to death. For the soul, like the
+body, can never perfect itself in isolation. The law for both is to be
+complete in the appropriate Environment. Natural Law, p. 283.
+
+August 7th. Take into your new sphere of labour, where you also mean to
+lay down your life, that simple charm, Love, and your life-work must
+succeed. You can take nothing greater, you need take nothing less. It is
+not worth while going if you take anything less. The Greatest Thing in
+the World, p. 17.
+
+August 8th. Politeness has been defined as love in trifles. Courtesy is
+said to be love in little things. And the one secret of politeness is to
+love. Love CANNOT behave itself unseemly. You can put the most untutored
+persons into the highest society, and if they have a reservoir of Love in
+their heart, they will not behave themselves unseemly. They simply cannot
+do it. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 26.
+
+August 9th. I believe that Christ's yoke is easy. Christ's "yoke" is just
+His way of taking life. And I believe it is an easier way than any other.
+I believe it is a happier way than any other. The most obvious lesson in
+Christ's teaching is that there is no happiness in having and getting
+anything, but only in giving. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 29.
+
+August 10th. Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of
+happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being
+served by others. It consists in giving, and in serving others. He that
+would be great among you, said Christ, let him serve. He that would be
+happy, let him remember that there is but one way--it is more blessed, it
+is more happy, to give than to receive. The Greatest Thing in the World,
+p. 30.
+
+August 11th. "Love is not easily provoked." . . . We are inclined to look
+upon bad temper as a very harmless weakness. We speak of it as a mere
+infirmity of nature, a family failing, a matter of temperament, not a
+thing to take into very serious account in estimating a man's character.
+And yet here, right in the heart of this analysis of love, it finds a
+place; and the Bible again and again returns to condemn it as one of the
+most destructive elements in human nature. The Greatest Thing in the
+World, p. 30.
+
+August 12th. The peculiarity of ill-temper is that it is the vice of the
+virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You
+know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely
+perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy"
+disposition. This compatibility of ill-temper with high moral character
+is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics. The Greatest
+Thing in the World, p. 31.
+
+August 13th. What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good
+musician? Practice. . . . What makes a man a good man? Practice. Nothing
+else. There is nothing capricious about religion. We do not get the soul
+in different ways, under different laws, from those in which we get the
+body and the mind. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 40.
+
+August 14th. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich,
+strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole round Christian
+character--the Christ-like nature in its fullest development. And the
+constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless
+practice. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 41.
+
+August 15th. We know but little now about the conditions of the life that
+is to come. But what is certain is that Love must last. God, the Eternal
+God, is Love. Covet, therefore, that everlasting gift. The Greatest Thing
+in the World, p. 54.
+
+August 16th. To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love
+forever is to live forever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up
+with love. . . . Love must be eternal. It is what God is. The Greatest
+Thing in the World, pp. 57, 58.
+
+August 17th. When a man becomes a Christian the natural process is this:
+The Living Christ enters into his soul. Development begins. The
+quickening Life seizes upon the soul, assimilates surrounding elements,
+and begins to fashion it. According to the great Law of Conformity to
+Type this fashioning takes a specific form. It is that of the Artist who
+fashions. And all through Life this wonderful, mystical, glorious, yet
+perfectly definite, process, goes on "until Christ be formed" in it.
+Natural Law, p. 294.
+
+August 18th. The Christian Life is not a vague effort after
+righteousness--an ill-defined, pointless struggle for an ill-defined,
+pointless end. Religion is no dishevelled mass of aspiration, prayer, and
+faith. There is no more mystery in Religion as to its processes than in
+Biology. Natural Law, p. 294.
+
+August 19th. There is much mystery in Biology. "We know all but nothing
+of Life" yet, nothing of development. There is the same mystery in the
+spiritual Life. But the great lines are the same, as decided, as
+luminous; and the laws of natural and spiritual are the same, as
+unerring, as simple. Will everything else in the natural world unfold its
+order, and yield to Science more and more a vision of harmony, and
+Religion, which should complement and perfect all, remain a chaos?
+Natural Law, p. 294.
+
+August 20th. When one attempts to sanctify himself by effort, he is
+trying to make his boat go by pushing against the mast. He is like a
+drowning man trying to lift himself out of the water by pulling at the
+hair of his own head. Christ held up this method almost to ridicule when
+He said: "Which of you by taking thought can add a cubit to his stature?"
+The one redeeming feature of the self-sufficient method is this--that
+those who try it find out almost at once that it will not gain the goal.
+The Changed Life, p. 11.
+
+August 21st. The Image of Christ that is forming within us--that is
+life's one charge. Let every project stand aside for that. "Till Christ
+be formed," no man's work is finished, no religion crowned, no life has
+fulfilled its end. The Changed Life, p. 62.
+
+August 22d. Our companionship with Him, like all true companionship, is a
+spiritual communion. All friendship, all love, human and Divine, is
+purely spiritual. It was after He was risen that He influenced even the
+disciples most. The Changed Life, p. 38.
+
+August 23d. Make Christ your most constant companion. Be more under His
+influence than under any other influence. Ten minutes spent in His
+society every day, ay, two minutes if it be face to face, and heart to
+heart, will make the whole day different. Every character has an inward
+spring, let Christ be it. Every action has a key-note, let Christ set it.
+The Changed Life, p. 40.
+
+August 24th. Under the right conditions it is as natural for character to
+become beautiful as for a flower; and if on God's earth there is not some
+machinery for effecting it, the supreme gift to the world has been
+forgotten. This is simply what man was made for. With Browning: "I say
+that Man was made to grow, not stop." The Changed Life, p. 10.
+
+August 25th. How can modern men today make Christ, the absent Christ,
+their most constant companion still? The answer is that Friendship is a
+spiritual thing. It is independent of Matter, or Space, or Time. That
+which I love in my friend is not that which I see. What influences me in
+my friend is not his body but his spirit. The Changed Life, p. 37.
+
+August 26th. Love should be the supreme thing--because it is going to
+last; because in the nature of things it is an Eternal Life. It is a
+thing that we are living now, not that we get when we die; that we shall
+have a poor chance of getting when we die unless we are living now. The
+Greatest Thing in the World, p. 58.
+
+August 27th. When will it be seen that the characteristic of the
+Christian Religion is its Life, that a true theology must begin with a
+Biology? Theology is the Science of God. Why will men treat God as
+inorganic? Natural Law, p. 297.
+
+August 28th. We should be forsaking the lines of nature were we to
+imagine for a moment that the new creature was to be formed out of
+nothing. Nothing can be made out of nothing. Matter is uncreatable and
+indestructible; Nature and man can only form and transform. Hence when a
+new animal is made, no new clay is made. Life merely enters into already
+existing matter, assimilates more of the same sort and rebuilds it. The
+spiritual Artist works in the same way. He must have a peculiar kind of
+protoplasm, a basis of life, and that must be already existing. Natural
+Law, p. 297.
+
+August 29th. However active the intellectual or moral life may be, from
+the point of view of this other Life it is dead. That which is flesh is
+flesh. It wants, that is to say, the kind of Life which constitutes the
+difference between the Christian and the not-a-Christian, It has not yet
+been "born of the Spirit." Natural Law, p. 299.
+
+August 30th. The protoplasm in man has a something in addition to its
+instincts or its habits. It has a capacity for God. In this capacity for
+God lies its receptivity; it is the very protoplasm that was necessary.
+The chamber is not only ready to receive the new Life, but the Guest is
+expected, and, till He comes, is missed. Till then the soul longs and
+yearns, wastes and pines, waving its tentacles piteously in the empty
+air, feeling after God if so be that it may find Him. This is not
+peculiar to the protoplasm of the Christian's soul. In every land and in
+every age there have been altars to the Known or Unknown God. Natural
+Law, p. 300.
+
+August 31st. It is now agreed as a mere question of anthropology that the
+universal language of the human soul has always been "I perish with
+hunger." This is what fits it for Christ. There is a grandeur in this cry
+from the depths which makes its very unhappiness sublime. Natural Law, p.
+300.
+
+September 1st. In reflecting the character of Christ, it is no real
+obstacle that we may never have been in visible contact with Himself.
+Many men know Dante better than their own fathers. He influences them
+more. As a spiritual presence he is more near to them, as a spiritual
+force more real. Is there any reason why a greater than . . . Dante
+should not also instruct, inspire, and mould the characters of men? The
+Changed Life, pp. 38, 52.
+
+September 2d. Mark this distinction. . . . Imitation is mechanical,
+reflection organic. The one is occasional, the other habitual. In the one
+case, man comes to God and imitates Him; in the other, God comes to man
+and imprints Himself upon him. It is quite true that there is an
+imitation of Christ which amounts to reflection. But Paul's term includes
+all that the other holds, and is open to no mistake. "Whom having not
+seen, I love." The Changed Life, p. 39.
+
+September 3d. In paraphrase: We all reflecting as a mirror the character
+of Christ are transformed into the same Image from character to
+character--from a poor character to a better one, from a better one to
+one a little better still, from that to one still more complete, until by
+slow degrees the Perfect Image is attained. Here the solution of the
+problem of sanctification is compressed into a sentence: Reflect the
+character of Christ and you will become like Christ. The Changed Life, p.
+24.
+
+September 4th. Not more certain is it that it is something outside the
+thermometer that produces a change in the thermometer, than it is
+something outside the soul of man that produces a moral change upon him.
+That he must be susceptible to that change, that he must be a party to
+it, goes without saying; but that neither his aptitude nor his will can
+produce it is equally certain. The Changed Life, p. 20.
+
+September 5th. Just as in an organism we have these three things--
+formative matter, formed matter, and the forming principle or life; so in
+the soul we have the old nature, the renewed nature, and. the
+transforming Life. Natural Law, p. 302.
+
+September 6th. Is it hopeless to point out that one of the most
+recognizable characteristics of life is its unrecognizableness, and that
+the very token of its spiritual nature lies in its being beyond the
+grossness of our eyes? Natural Law, p. 302.
+
+September 7th. According to the doctrine of Bio-genesis, life can only
+come from life. It was Christ's additional claim that His function in the
+world, was to give men Life. "I am come that ye might have Life, and that
+ye might have it more abundantly." This could, not refer to the natural
+life, for men had that already. He that hath the Son hath another Life.
+"Know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you." Natural
+Law, p. 303.
+
+September 8th. The recognition of the Ideal is the first step in the
+direction of Conformity. But let it be clearly observed that it is but a
+step. There is no vital connection between merely seeing the Ideal and
+being conformed to it. Thousands admire Christ who never become
+Christians. Natural Law, p. 306.
+
+September 9th. For centuries men have striven to find out ways and means
+to conform themselves to the Christ Life. Impressive motives have been
+pictured, the proper circumstances arranged, the direction of effort
+defined, and men have toiled, struggled, and agonized to conform
+themselves to the Image of the Son. Can the protoplasm CONFORM ITSELF to
+its type? Can the embryo FASHION ITSELF? Is Conformity to Type produced
+by the matter OR BY THE LIFE, by the protoplasm or by the Type? Is
+organization the cause of life or the effect of it? It is the effect of
+it. Conformity to Type, therefore, is secured by the type. Christ makes
+the Christian. Natural Law, p. 307.
+
+September 10th. O preposterous and vain man, thou who couldest not make a
+fingernail of thy body, thinkest thou to fashion this wonderful,
+mysterious, subtle soul of thine after the ineffable Image? Wilt thou
+ever permit thyself TO BE conformed to the Image of the Son? Wilt thou,
+who canst not add a cubit to thy stature, submit TO BE raised by the
+Type-Life within thee to the perfect stature of Christ Natural Law, p.
+308.
+
+September 11th. Men will still experiment "by works of righteousness
+which they have done" to earn the Ideal life. The doctrine of Human
+Inability, as the Church calls it, has always been objectionable to men
+who do not know themselves. Natural Law, p. 309.
+
+September 12th. Let man choose Life; let him daily nourish his soul; let
+him forever starve the old life; let him abide continuously as a living
+branch in the Vine, and the True-Vine Life will flow into his soul,
+assimilating, renewing, conforming to Type, till Christ, pledged by His
+own law, be formed in him. Natural Law, p. 312.
+
+September 13th. The work begun by Nature is finished by the Supernatural
+--as we are wont to call the higher natural. And as the veil is lifted by
+Christianity it strikes men dumb with wonder. For the goal of Evolution
+is Jesus Christ. Natural Law, p. 314.
+
+September 14th. The Christian life is the only life that will ever be
+completed. Apart from Christ the life of man is a broken pillar, the race
+of men an unfinished pyramid. One by one in sight of Eternity all human
+Ideals fall short, one by one before the open grave all human hopes
+dissolve. Natural Law, p. 314.
+
+September 15th. I do not think we ourselves are aware how much our
+religious life is made up of phrases; how much of what we call Christian
+experience is only a dialect of the Churches, a mere religious
+phraseology with almost nothing behind it in what we really feel and
+know. Pax Vobiscum, p. 12.
+
+September 16th. The ceaseless chagrin of a self-centred life can be
+removed at once by learning Meekness and Lowliness of heart. He who
+learns them is forever proof against it. He lives henceforth a charmed
+life. Pax Vobiscum, p. 29.
+
+September 17th. Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to
+breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one
+another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic
+circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the
+taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible. Pax
+Vobiscum, p. 28.
+
+September 18th. There are people who go about the world looking out for
+slights, and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every
+turn--especially the imaginary ones. One has the same pity for such men
+as for the very poor. They are the morally illiterate. They have had no
+real education, for they have never learned how to live. Pax Vobiscum, p.
+31.
+
+September 19th. Christ never said much in mere words about the Christian
+graces. He lived them, He was them. Yet we do not merely copy Him. We
+learn His art by living with Him. Pax Vobiscum, p. 32.
+
+September 20th. Christ's invitation to the weary and heavy-laden is a
+call to begin life over again upon a new principle--upon His own
+principle. "Watch My way of doing things," He says. "Follow Me. Take life
+as I take it. Be meek and lowly, and you will find Rest." Pax Vobiscum,
+p. 32.
+
+September 21st. If a man could make himself humble to order, it might
+simplify matters, but we do not find that this happens. Hence we must all
+go through the mill. Hence death, death to the lower self, is the nearest
+gate and the quickest road to life. Pax Vobiscum, p. 35.
+
+September 22d. Whatever rest is provided by Christianity for the children
+of God, it is certainly never contemplated that it should supersede
+personal effort. And any rest which ministers to indifference is immoral
+and unreal--it makes parasites and not men. Natural Law, p. 335.
+
+September 23d. Just because God worketh in him, as the evidence and
+triumph of it, the true child of God works out his own salvation--works
+it out having really received it--not as a light thing, a superfluous
+labour, but with fear and trembling as a reasonable and indispensable
+service. Natural Law, p. 335.
+
+September 24th. Christianity, as Christ taught, is the truest philosophy
+of life ever spoken. But let us be quite sure when we speak of
+Christianity, that we mean Christ's Christianity. Pax Vobiscum, p. 47.
+
+September 25th. So far from ministering to growth, parasitism ministers
+to decay. So far from ministering to holiness, that is to wholeness,
+parasitism ministers to exactly the opposite. One by one the spiritual
+faculties droop and die, one by one from lack of exercise the muscles of
+the soul grow weak and flaccid, one by one the moral activities cease. So
+from him that hath not, is taken away that which he hath, and after a few
+years of parasitism there is nothing left to save. Natural Law, p. 336.
+
+September 26th. The natural life, not less than the eternal, is the gift
+of God. But life in either case is the beginning of growth and not the
+end of grace. To pause where we should begin, to retrograde where we
+should advance, to seek a mechanical security that we may cover inertia
+and find a wholesale salvation in which there is no personal
+sanctification--this is Parasitism. Natural Law, p. 336.
+
+September 27th. Could we investigate the spirit as a living organism, or
+study the soul of the backslider on principles of comparative anatomy, we
+should have a revelation of the organic effects of sin, even of the mere
+sin of carelessness as to growth and work, which must revolutionize our
+ideas of practical religion. There is no room for the doubt even that
+what goes on in the body does not with equal certainty take place in the
+spirit under the corresponding conditions. Natural Law, p. 345.
+
+September 28th. It is the beautiful work of Christianity everywhere to
+adjust the burden of life to those who bear it, and them to it. It has a
+perfectly miraculous gift of healing. Without doing any violence to human
+nature it sets it right with life, harmonizing it with all surrounding
+things, and restoring those who are jaded with the fatigue and dust of
+the world to a new grace of living. Pax Vobiscum, p. 46.
+
+September 29th. The penalty of backsliding is not something unreal and
+vague, some unknown quantity which may be measured out to us
+disproportionately, or which, perchance, since God is good, we may
+altogether evade. The consequences are already marked within the
+structure of the soul. So to speak, they are physiological. The thing
+effected by our in difference or by our indulgence is not the book of
+final judgment, but the present fabric of the soul. Natural Law, p. 346.
+
+September 30th. The punishment of degeneration is simply degeneration--
+the loss of functions, the decay of organs, the atrophy of the spiritual
+nature. It is well known that the recovery of the backslider is one of
+the hardest problems in spiritual work. To reinvigorate an old organ
+seems more difficult and hopeless than to develop a new one; and the
+backslider's terrible lot is to have to retrace with enfeebled feet each
+step of the way along which he strayed; to make up inch by inch the
+leeway he has lost, carrying with him a dead-weight of acquired
+reluctance, and scarce knowing whether to be stimulated or discouraged by
+the oppressive memory of the previous fall. Natural Law, p. 346.
+
+October 1st. He who abandons the personal search for truth, under
+whatever pretext, abandons truth. The very word truth, by becoming the
+limited possession of a guild, ceases to have any meaning; and faith,
+which can only be founded on truth, gives way to credulity, resting on
+mere opinion. Natural Law, p. 352.
+
+October 2d. It is more necessary for us to be active than to be orthodox.
+To be orthodox is what we wish to be, but we can only truly reach it by
+being honest, by being original, by seeing with our own eyes, by
+believing with our own heart. Natural Law. p. 364.
+
+October 3d. Better a little faith dearly won, better launched alone on
+the infinite bewilderment of Truth, than perish on the splendid plenty of
+the richest creeds. Such Doubt is no self-willed presumption. Nor, truly
+exercised, will it prove itself, as much doubt does, the synonym for
+sorrow. Natural Law, p. 365.
+
+October 4th. Christianity removes the attraction of the earth; and this
+is one way in which it diminishes men's burden. It makes them citizens of
+another world. Pax Vobiscum, p. 47.
+
+October 5th. Then the Christian experiences are our own making? In the
+same sense in which grapes are our own making, and no more. All fruits
+GROW--whether they grow in the soil or in the soul; whether they are the
+fruits of the wild grape or of the True Vine. No man can MAKE things
+grow. He can GET THEM TO GROW by arranging all the circumstances and
+fulfilling all the conditions. But the growing is done by God. Pax
+Vobiscum, p. 56.
+
+October 6th. Men may not know how fruits grow, but they do know that they
+cannot grow in five minutes. Some lives have not even a stalk on which
+fruits could hang, even if they did grow in five minutes. Some have never
+planted one sound seed of Joy in all their lives; and others who may have
+planted a germ or two have lived so little in sunshine that they never
+could come to maturity. Pax Vobiscum, p. 51.
+
+October 7th. There is no mystery about Happiness whatever. Put in the
+right ingredients and it must come out. He that abideth in Him will bring
+forth much fruit; and bringing forth much fruit is Happiness. The
+infallible receipt for Happiness, then, is to do good; and the infallible
+receipt for doing good is to abide in Christ. Pax Vobiscum, p. 56.
+
+October 8th. Spend the time you have spent in sighing for fruits in
+fulfilling the conditions of their growth. The fruits will come, must
+come. . . . About every other method of living the Christian life there
+is an uncertainty. About every other method of acquiring the Christian
+experiences there is a "perhaps." But in so far as this method is the way
+of nature, it cannot fail. Pax Vobiscum, p. 58.
+
+October 9th. The distinctions drawn between men are commonly based on the
+outward appearance of goodness or badness, on the ground of moral beauty
+or moral deformity--is this classification scientific? Or is there a
+deeper distinction between the Christian and the not-a-Christian as
+fundamental as that between the organic and the inorganic? Natural Law,
+p. 374.
+
+October 10th What is the essential difference between the Christian and
+the not-a-Christian, between the spiritual beauty and the moral beauty?
+It is the distinction between the Organic and the Inorganic. Moral beauty
+is the product of the natural man, spiritual beauty of the spiritual man.
+Natural Law, p. 380.
+
+October 11th. The first Law of biology is: That which is Mineral is
+Mineral; that which is Flesh is Flesh; that which is Spirit is Spirit.
+The mineral remains in the inorganic world until it is seized upon by a
+something called Life outside the inorganic world; the natural man
+remains the natural man, until a Spiritual Life from without the natural
+life seizes upon him, regenerates him, changes him into a spiritual man.
+Natural Law, p. 381.
+
+October 12th Suppose now it be granted for a moment that the character of
+the not-a-Christian is as beautiful as that of the Christian. This is
+simply to say that the crystal is as beautiful as the organism. One is
+quite entitled to hold this; but what he is not entitled to hold is that
+both in the same sense are living. "He that hath the Son hath Life, and
+he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life." Natural Law, p. 382.
+
+October 13th. Man is a moral animal, and can, and ought to, arrive at
+great natural beauty of character. But this is simply to obey the law of
+his nature--the law of his flesh; and no progress along that line can
+project him into the spiritual sphere. Natural Law, p. 382.
+
+October 14th. If any one choose to claim that the mineral beauty, the
+fleshly beauty, the natural moral beauty, is all he covets, he is
+entitled to his claim. To be good and true, pure and benevolent in the
+moral sphere, are high and, so far, legitimate objects in life. If he
+deliberately stop here, he is at liberty to do so. But what he is not
+entitled to do is to call himself a Christian, or to claim to discharge
+the functions peculiar to the Christian life. Natural Law, p. 382.
+
+October 15th. In dealing with a man of fine moral character, we are
+dealing with the highest achievement of the organic kingdom. But in
+dealing with a spiritual man we are dealing with THE LOWEST FORM OF LIFE
+IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. To contrast the two, therefore, and marvel that
+the one is apparently so little better than the other, is unscientific
+and unjust. Natural Law, p. 385.
+
+October 16th. The spiritual man is a mere unformed embryo, hidden as yet
+in his earthly chrysalis-case, while the natural man has the breeding and
+evolution of ages represented in his character. But what are the
+possibilities of this spiritual organism? What is yet to emerge from this
+chrysalis-case? The natural character finds its limits within the organic
+sphere. But who is to define the limits of the spiritual? Even now it is
+very beautiful. Even as an embryo it contains some prophecy of its future
+glory. But the point to mark is, that "it doth not yet appear what it
+shall be." Natural Law, p. 386.
+
+October 17th. The best test for Life is just LIVING. And living consists,
+as we have formerly seen, in corresponding with Environment. Those
+therefore who find within themselves, and regularly exercise, the
+faculties for corresponding with the Divine Environment, may be said to
+live the Spiritual Life. Natural Law, p. 390.
+
+October 18th. That the Spiritual Life, even in the embryonic organism,
+ought already to betray itself to others, is certainly what one would
+expect. Every organism has its own reaction upon Nature, and the reaction
+of the spiritual organism upon the community must be looked for. In the
+absence of any such reaction, in the absence of any token that it lived
+for a higher purpose, or that its real interests were those of the
+Kingdom to which it professed to belong, we should be entitled to
+question its being in that Kingdom. Natural Law, p. 390.
+
+October 19th. Man's place in Nature, or his position among the Kingdoms,
+is to be decided by the characteristic functions habitually discharged by
+him. Now, when the habits of certain individuals are closely observed,
+when the total effect of their life and work, with regard to the
+community, is gauged, . . . there ought to be no difficulty in deciding
+whether they are living for the Organic or for the Spiritual; in plainer
+language, for the world or for God. Natural Law, p. 391.
+
+October 20th. No matter what may be the moral uprightness of man's life,
+the honourableness of his career, or the orthodoxy of his creed, if he
+exercises the function of loving the world, that defines his world--he
+belongs to the Organic Kingdom. He cannot in that case belong to the
+higher Kingdom. "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not
+in him." After all, it is by the general bent of a man's life, by his
+heart-impulses and secret desires, his spontaneous actions and abiding
+motives, that his generation is declared. Natural Law, p. 393.
+
+October 21st. The imperious claim of a Kingdom upon its members is not
+peculiar to Christianity. It is the law in all departments of Nature that
+every organism must live for its Kingdom. And in defining living FOR the
+higher Kingdom as the condition of living in it, Christ enunciates a
+principle which all Nature has prepared us to expect. Natural Law, p.
+395.
+
+October 22d. Christianity marks the advent of what is simply a new
+Kingdom. Its distinctions from the Kingdom below it are fundamental. It
+demands from its members activities and responses of an altogether novel
+order. It is, in the conception of its Founder, a Kingdom for which all
+its adherents must henceforth exclusively live and work, and which opens
+its gates alone upon those who, having counted the cost, are prepared to
+follow it if need be to the death. The surrender Christ demanded was
+absolute. Every aspirant for membership must seek FIRST the Kingdom of
+God. Natural Law, p. 394.
+
+October 23d. Until even religious men see the uniqueness of Christ's
+society, until they acknowledge to the full extent its claim to be
+nothing less than a new Kingdom, they will continue the hopeless attempt
+to live for two Kingdoms at once. And hence the value of a more explicit
+Classification. For probably the most of the difficulties of trying to
+live the Christian life arise from attempting to half-live it. Natural
+Law, p. 396.
+
+October 24th. Two Kingdoms, at the present time, are known to Science--
+the Inorganic and the Organic. The spiritual life does not belong to the
+Inorganic Kingdom, because it lives. It does not belong to the Organic
+Kingdom, because it is endowed with a kind of Life infinitely removed
+from either the vegetable or animal. Where, then, shall it be classed? We
+are left without an alternative. There being no Kingdom known to Science
+which can contain it, we must construct one. Or, rather, we must include
+in the programme of Science a Kingdom already constructed, but the place
+of which in Science has not yet been recognized. That Kingdom is the
+KINGDOM OF GOD. Natural Law, p. 397.
+
+October 25th. The goal of the organisms of the Spiritual World is nothing
+less than this--to be "holy as He is holy, and pure as He is pure." And
+by the Law of Conformity to Type, their final perfection is secured. The
+inward nature must develop out according to its Type, until the
+consummation of oneness with God is reached. Natural Law, p. 403.
+
+October 26th. Christianity defines the highest conceivable future for
+mankind. It satisfies the Law of Continuity. It guarantees the necessary
+conditions for carrying on the organism successfully, from stage to
+stage. It provides against the tendency to Degeneration. And finally,
+instead of limiting the yearning hope of final perfection to the
+organisms of a future age--an age so remote that the hope for thousands
+of years must still be hopeless--instead of inflicting this cruelty on
+intelligences mature enough to know perfection and earnest enough to wish
+it, Christianity puts the prize within immediate reach of man. Natural
+Law, p. 404.
+
+October 27th. No worse fate can befall a man in this world than to live
+and grow old alone, unloving and unloved. To be lost is to live in an
+unregenerate condition, loveless and unloved; and to be saved is to love;
+he that dwelleth in love dwelleth already in God. For God is Love. The
+Greatest Thing in the World, p. 59.
+
+October 28th. "Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love
+vaunteth not itself." Get these ingredients into your life. Then
+everything that you do is eternal. It is worth doing. It is worth giving
+time to. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 60.
+
+October 29th. The final test of religion at that great Day is not
+religiousness, but Love; not what I have done, not what I have believed,
+not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities
+of life. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 62.
+
+October 30th. The words which all of us shall one Day hear sound not of
+theology but of life, not of churches and saints, but of the hungry and
+the poor, not of creeds and doctrines, but of shelter and clothing, not
+of Bibles and prayer-books, but of cups of cold water in the name of
+Christ. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 63.
+
+October 31st. The world moves. And each day, each hour, demands a further
+motion and re-adjustment for the soul. A telescope in an observatory
+follows a star by clockwork, but the clockwork of the soul is called the
+Will. Hence, while the soul in passivity reflects the Image of the Lord,
+the Will in intense activity holds the mirror in position lest the
+drifting motion of the world bear it beyond the line of vision. To
+"follow Christ" is largely to keep the soul in such position as will
+allow for the motion of the earth. And this calculated counteracting of
+the movements of a world, this holding of the mirror exactly opposite to
+the Mirrored, this steadying of the faculties unerringly, through cloud
+and earthquake; fire and sword, is the stupendous cooperating labour of
+the Will. The Changed Life, p. 60.
+
+November 1st. All around us Christians are wearing themselves out in
+trying to be better. The amount of spiritual longing in the world--in the
+hearts of unnumbered thousands of men and women in whom we should never
+suspect it; among the wise and thoughtful; among the young and gay, who
+seldom assuage and never betray their thirst--this is one of the most
+wonderful and touching facts of life. It is not more heat that is needed,
+but more light; not more force, but a wiser direction to be given to very
+real energies already there. Pax Vobiscum, p. 14.
+
+November 2d. Men sigh for the wings of a dove, that they may fly away and
+be at Rest. But flying away will not help us. "The Kingdom of God is
+WITHIN YOU." We aspire to the top to look for Rest; it lies at the
+bottom. Water rests only when it gets to the lowest place. So do men.
+Hence, be lowly. Pax Vobiscum, p. 30.
+
+November 3d. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, joy.
+Righteousness, of course, is just doing what is right. Any boy who does
+what is right has the kingdom of God within him. Any boy who, instead of
+being quarrelsome, lives at peace with the other boys, has the kingdom of
+God within him. Any boy whose heart is filled with joy because he does
+what is right, has the kingdom of God within him. The kingdom of God is
+not going to religious meetings, and hearing strange religious
+experiences: the kingdom of God is doing what is right--living at peace
+with all men, being filled with joy in the Holy Ghost. First, p. 11.
+
+November 4th. The man who has no opinion of himself at all can never be
+hurt if others do not acknowledge him. Hence, be meek. He who is without
+expectation cannot fret if nothing comes to him. It is self-evident that
+these things are so. The lowly man and the meek man are really above all
+other men, above all other things. Pax Vobiscum, p. 30.
+
+November 5th. Keep religion in its place, and it will take you straight
+through life, and straight to your Father in heaven when life is over.
+But if you do not put it in its place, you may just as well have nothing
+to do with it. Religion out of its place in a human life is the most
+miserable thing in the world. There is nothing that requires so much to
+be kept in its place as religion, and its place is what? second? third?
+"First." Boys, carry that home with you today--FIRST the kingdom of God.
+Make it so that it will be natural to you to think about that the very
+first thing. First, pp. 15, 16.
+
+November 6th. The change we have been striving after is not to be
+produced by any more striving after. It is to be wrought upon us by the
+moulding of hands beyond our own. As the branch ascends, and the bud
+bursts, and the fruit reddens under the cooperation of influences from
+the outside air, so man rises to the higher stature under invisible
+pressures from without. The Changed Life, p. 21.
+
+November 7th. Every man's character remains as it is, or continues in the
+direction in which it is going, until it is compelled by IMPRESSED FORCES
+to change that state. Our failure has been the failure to put ourselves
+in the way of the impressed forces. There is a clay, and there is a
+Potter; we have tried to get the clay to mould the clay. The Changed
+Life, p. 21.
+
+November 8th. Character is a unity, and all the virtues must advance
+together to make the perfect man. This method of sanctification,
+nevertheless, is in the true direction. It is only in the details of
+execution that it fails. The Changed Life, p. 14.
+
+November 9th. We all reflecting as a mirror the character of Christ are
+transformed into the same Image from character to character--from a poor
+character to a better one, from a better one to one a little better
+still, from that to one still more complete, until by slow degrees the
+Perfect Image is attained. Here the solution of the problem of
+sanctification is compressed into a sentence: Reflect the character of
+Christ, and you will become like Christ. The Changed Life, p. 24.
+
+November 10th. There are some men and some women in whose company we are
+always at our best. While with them we cannot think mean thoughts or
+speak ungenerous words. Their mere presence is elevation, purification,
+sanctity. All the best stops in our nature are drawn out by their
+intercourse, and we find a music in our souls that was never there
+before. The Changed Life, p. 33.
+
+November 11th. Take such a sentence as this: African explorers are
+subject to fevers which cause restlessness and delirium. Note the
+expression, "cause restlessness." RESTLESSNESS HAS A CAUSE. Clearly,
+then, any one who wished to get rid of restlessness would proceed at once
+to deal with the cause. Pax Vobiscum, p. 20.
+
+November 12th. What Christian experience wants is THREAD, a vertebral
+column, method. It is impossible to believe that there is no remedy for
+its unevenness and dishevelment, or that the remedy is a secret. The
+idea, also, that some few men, by happy chance or happier temperament,
+have been given the secret--as if there were some sort of knack or trick
+of it--is wholly incredible. Religion must ripen fruit for every
+temperament; and the way even into its highest heights must be by a
+gateway through which the peoples of the world may pass. Pax Vobiscum, p.
+15.
+
+November 13th. Nothing that happens in the world happens by chance. God
+is a God of order. Everything is arranged upon definite principles, and
+never at random. The world, even the religious world, is governed by law.
+Character is governed by law. Happiness is governed by law. The Christian
+experiences are governed by law. Pax Vobiscum, p. 17.
+
+November 14th. We ARE CHANGED, as the Old Version has it--we do not
+change ourselves. No man can change himself. Throughout the New Testament
+you will find that wherever these moral and spiritual transformations are
+described the verbs are in the passive. Presently it will be pointed out
+that there is a rationale in this; but meantime do not toss these words
+aside as if this passivity denied all human effort or ignored
+intelligible law. What is implied for the soul here is no more than is
+everywhere claimed for the body. The Changed Life, p. 19.
+
+November 15th. Rain and snow do drop from the air, but not without a long
+previous history. They are the mature effects of former causes. Equally
+so are Rest, and Peace, and Joy. They, too, have each a previous history.
+Storms and winds and calms are not accidents, but are brought about by
+antecedent circumstances. Rest and Peace are but calms in man's inward
+nature, and arise through causes as definite and as inevitable. Pax
+Vobiscum, p. 18.
+
+November 16th. Few men know how to live. We grow up at random, carrying
+into mature life the merely animal methods and motives which we had as
+little children. And it does not occur to us that all this must be
+changed; that much of it must be reversed; that life is the finest of the
+Fine Arts; that it has to be learned with life-long patience, and that
+the years of our pilgrimage are all too short to master it triumphantly.
+Pax Vobiscum, p. 31.
+
+November 17th. Christ's life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives
+that was ever lived: Tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves
+breaking over it all the time till the worn body was laid in the grave.
+But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there.
+At any moment you might have gone to Him and found Rest. Pax Vobiscum, p.
+35.
+
+November 18th. The creation of a new heart, the renewing of a right
+spirit is an omnipotent work of God. Leave it to the Creator. "He which
+hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto that day." The Changed
+Life, p. 57.
+
+November 19th. To become like Christ is the only thing in the world worth
+caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly, and
+all lower achievement vain. Those only who make this quest the supreme
+desire and passion of their lives can even begin to hope to reach it. The
+Changed Life, p. 57.
+
+November 20th. A religion of effortless adoration may be a religion for
+an angel but never for a man. Not in the contemplative, but in the
+active, lies true hope; not in rapture, but in reality, lies true life;
+not in the realm of ideals, but among tangible things, is man's
+sanctification wrought. The Changed Life, p. 58.
+
+November 21st. Nothing ever for a moment broke the serenity of Christ's
+life on earth. Misfortune could not reach Him; He had no fortune. Food,
+raiment, money--fountain-heads of half the world's weariness--He simply
+did not care for; they played no part in His life; He "took no thought"
+for them. It was impossible to affect Him by lowering His reputation; He
+had already made Himself of no reputation. He was dumb before insult.
+When He was reviled, He reviled not again. In fact, there was nothing
+that the world could do to Him that could ruffle the surface of His
+spirit. Pax Vobiscum, p. 36.
+
+November 22d. Life is the cradle of eternity. As the man is to the animal
+in the slowness of his evolution, so is the spiritual man to the natural
+man. Foundations which have to bear the weight of an eternal life must be
+surely laid. Character is to wear forever; who will wonder or grudge that
+it cannot be developed in a day? The Changed Life, p. 55.
+
+November 23d. To await the growing of a soul is an almost Divine act of
+faith. How pardonable, surely, the impatience of deformity with itself,
+of a consciously despicable character standing before Christ, wondering,
+yearning, hungering to be like that? Yet must one trust the process
+fearlessly, and without misgiving. "The Lord the Spirit" will do His
+part. The tempting expedient is, in haste for abrupt or visible progress,
+to try some method less spiritual, or to defeat the end by watching for
+effects instead of keeping the eye on the Cause. The Changed Life, p. 56.
+
+November 24th. The Image of Christ that is forming within us--that is
+life's one charge. Let every project stand aside for that. "Till Christ
+be formed," no man's work is finished, no religion crowned, no life has
+fulfilled its end. Is the infinite task begun? When, how, are we to be
+different? Time cannot change men. Death cannot change men. Christ can.
+Wherefore PUT ON CHRIST. The Changed Life, p. 62.
+
+November 25th. Christ saw that men took life painfully. To some it was a
+weariness, to others a failure, to many a tragedy, to all a struggle and
+a pain. How to carry this burden of life had been the whole world's
+problem. It is still the whole world's problem. And here is Christ's
+solution. "Carry it as I do. Take life as I take it. Look at it from My
+point of view. Interpret it upon My principles. Take My yoke and learn of
+Me, and you will find it easy. For My yoke is easy, works easily, sits
+right upon the shoulders, and THEREFORE My burden is light." Pax
+Vobiscum, p. 44.
+
+November 26th. There is a disease called "touchiness"--a disease which,
+in spite of its innocent name, is one of the gravest sources of
+restlessness in the world. Touchiness, when it becomes chronic, is a
+morbid condition of the inward disposition. It is self-love inflamed to
+the acute point. . . The cure is to shift the yoke to some other place;
+to let men and things touch us through some new and perhaps as yet unused
+part of our nature; to become meek and lowly in heart while the old
+nature is becoming numb from want of use. Pax Vobiscum, pp. 45, 46.
+
+November 27th. Christ's yoke is simply His secret for the alleviation of
+human life, His prescription for the best and happiest method of living.
+Men harness themselves to the work and stress of the world in clumsy
+and unnatural ways. The harness they put on is antiquated. A rough,
+ill-fitted collar at the best, they make its strain and friction past
+enduring, by placing it where the neck is most sensitive; and by mere
+continuous irritation this sensitiveness increases until the whole nature
+is quick and sore. Pax Vobiscum, p. 45.
+
+November 28th. No one can get Joy by merely asking for it. It is one of
+the ripest fruits of the Christian life, and, like all fruits, must be
+grown. Pax Vobiscum, p. 50.
+
+November 29th Christ is the source of Joy to men in the sense in which He
+is the source of Rest. His people share His life, and therefore share its
+consequences, and one of these is Joy. His method of living is one that
+in the nature of things produces Joy. When He spoke of His Joy remaining
+with us He meant in part that the causes which produced it should
+continue to act. His followers, that is to say, by repeating His life
+would experience its accompaniments. His Joy, His kind of Joy, would
+remain with them. Pax Vobiscum, p. 54.
+
+November 30th. Think of it, the past is not only focussed there, in a
+man's soul, it IS there. How could it be reflected from there if it were
+not there? All things that he has ever seen, known, felt, believed of the
+surrounding world are now within him, have become part of him, in part
+are him--he has been changed into their image. He may deny it, he may
+resent it, but they are there. They do not adhere to him, they are
+transfused through him. He cannot alter or rub them out. They are not in
+his memory, they are in HIM. His soul is as they have filled it, made it,
+left it. The Changed Life, p. 27.
+
+December 1st. Temper is significant, not in what it is alone but in what
+it reveals. . . . It is a test for love, a symptom, a revelation of an
+unloving nature at bottom. It is the intermittent fever which bespeaks
+unintermittent disease within; the occasional bubble escaping to the
+surface which betrays some rottenness underneath; a sample of the most
+hidden products of the soul dropped involuntarily when off one's guard;
+IN A WORD, the lightning form of a hundred hideous and un-Christian sins.
+The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 34.
+
+December 2d. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the
+moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the
+moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As memory scans
+the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life there
+leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do
+unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to
+speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life. The
+Greatest Thing in the World, p. 60.
+
+December 3d. If events change men, much more persons. No man can meet
+another on the street without making some mark upon him. We say we
+exchange words when we meet; what we exchange is souls. And when
+intercourse is very close and very frequent, so complete is this exchange
+that recognizable bits of the one soul begin to show in the other's
+nature, and the second is conscious of a similar and growing debt to the
+first. The Changed Life, p. 30.
+
+December 4th. In the natural world we absorb heat, breathe air, draw on
+Environment all but automatically for meat and drink, for the nourishment
+of the senses, for mental stimulus, for all that, penetrating us from
+without, can prolong, enrich, and elevate life. But in the spiritual
+world we have all this to learn. We are new creatures, and even the bare
+living has to be acquired. Natural Law, p. 267.
+
+December 5th. The great point in learning to live the spiritual life is
+to live naturally. As closely as possible we must follow the broad, clear
+lines of the natural life. And there are three things especially which it
+is necessary for us to keep continually in view. The first is that the
+organism contains within itself only one-half of what is essential to
+life; the second is that the other half is contained in the Environment;
+the third, that the condition of receptivity is simple union between the
+organism and the Environment. Natural Law, p. 268.
+
+December 6th. To say that the organism contains within itself only
+one-half of what is essential to life, is to repeat the evangelical
+confession, so worn and yet so true to universal experience, of the utter
+helplessness of man. Natural Law, p. 268.
+
+December 7th. Who has not come to the conclusion that he is but a part, a
+fraction of some larger whole? Who does not miss at every turn of his
+life an absent God? That man is but a part, he knows, for there is room
+in him for more. That God is the other part, he feels, because at times
+He satisfies his need. Who does not tremble often under that sicklier
+symptom of his incompleteness, his want of spiritual energy, his
+helplessness with sin? But now he understands both--the void in his life,
+the powerlessness of his will. He understands that, like all other
+energy, spiritual power is contained in Environment. He finds here at
+last the true root of all human frailty, emptiness, nothingness, sin.
+This is why "without Me ye can do nothing." Powerless is the normal state
+not only of this but of every organism--of every organism apart from its
+Environment. Natural Law, p. 268.
+
+December 8th. To seize continuously the opportunity of more and more
+perfect adjustment to better and higher conditions, to balance some
+inward evil with some purer influence acting from without, in a word to
+make our Environment at the same time that it is making us--these are the
+secrets of a well-ordered and successful life. Natural Law, p. 256.
+
+December 9th. In the spiritual world the subtle influences which form and
+transform the soul are Heredity and Environment. And here especially,
+where all is invisible, where much that we feel to be real is yet so
+ill-defined, it becomes of vital practical moment to clarify the
+atmosphere as far as possible with conceptions borrowed from the natural
+life. Natural Law, p. 256.
+
+December 10th. These lower correspondences are in their nature unfitted
+for an Eternal Life. Even if they were perfect in their relation to their
+Environment, they would still not be Eternal. However opposed,
+apparently, to the scientific definition of Eternal Life, it is yet true
+that perfect correspondence with Environment is not Eternal Life. . . .
+An Eternal Life demands an Eternal Environment. Natural Law, p. 245.
+
+December 11th. On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really
+rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole
+of historical Christianity--the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Natural
+Law, p. 234.
+
+December 12th. The soul which has no correspondence with the spiritual
+environment is spiritually dead. It may be that it never possessed . . .
+the spiritual ear, or a heart which throbbed in response to the love of
+God. If so, having never lived, it cannot be said to have died. But not
+to have these correspondences is to be in the state of Death. To the
+spiritual world, to the Divine Environment, it is dead--as a stone which
+has never lived is dead to the environment of the organic world. Natural
+Law, p. 177.
+
+December 13th. The humanity of what is called "sudden conversion" has
+never been insisted on as it deserves. . . . While growth is a slow and
+gradual process, the change from Death to Life, alike in the natural and
+spiritual spheres, is the work of the moment. Whatever the conscious hour
+of the second birth may be--in the case of an adult it is probably
+defined by the first real victory over sin--it is certain that on
+biological principles the real turning-point is literally a moment.
+Natural Law, p. 184.
+
+December 14th. Christ says we must hate life. Now, this does not apply to
+all life. It is "life in this world" that is to be hated. For life in
+this world implies conformity to this world. It may not mean pursuing
+worldly pleasures, or mixing with worldly sets; but a subtler thing than
+that--a silent deference to worldly opinion; an almost unconscious
+lowering of religious tone to the level of the worldly-religious world
+around; a subdued resistance to the soul's delicate promptings to greater
+consecration, out of deference to "breadth" or fear of ridicule. These,
+and such things, are what Christ tells us we must hate. For these things
+are of the very essence of worldliness. "If any man love the world," even
+in this sense, "the love of the Father is not in him." Natural Law, p.
+197.
+
+December 15th. To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal
+Unknowable, would be everlasting existence; to correspond with "the true
+God and Jesus Christ," is Eternal Life. The quality of the Eternal Life
+alone makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon. Even the
+brief span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years
+in sorrow. Natural Law, p. 220.
+
+December 16th. The relation between the spiritual man and his Environment
+is, in theological language, a filial relation. With the new Spirit, the
+filial correspondence, he knows the Father--and this is Life Eternal.
+This is not only the real relation, but the only possible relation:
+"Neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever
+the Son will reveal Him." And this on purely natural grounds. Natural
+Law, p. 229.
+
+December 17th. Communion with God--can it be demonstrated in terms of
+Science that this is a correspondence which will never break? We do not
+appeal to Science for such a testimony. We have asked for its conception
+of an Eternal Life; and we have received for answer that Eternal Life
+would consist in a correspondence which should never cease, with an
+Environment which should never pass away. And yet what would Science
+demand of a perfect correspondence that is not met by this, THE KNOWING
+OF GOD? There is no other correspondence which could satisfy one at least
+of the conditions. Not one could be named which would not bear on the
+face of it the mark and pledge of its mortality. But this, to know God,
+stands alone. Natural Law, p. 220.
+
+December 18th. The misgiving which will creep sometimes over the
+brightest faith has already received its expression and its rebuke: "Who
+shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
+distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"
+Shall these "changes in the physical state of the environment" which
+threaten death to the natural man, destroy the spiritual? Shall death, or
+life, or angels, or principalities, or powers, arrest or tamper with his
+eternal correspondences? "Nay, in all these things we are more than
+conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither
+death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
+present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other
+creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
+Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom. viii, 35-39. Natural Law, p. 230.
+
+December 19th. "We find that man, or the spiritual man, is equipped with
+two sets of correspondences." One set possesses the quality of
+everlastingness, the other is temporal. But unless these are separated by
+some means the temporal will continue to impair and hinder the eternal.
+The final preparation, therefore, for the inheriting of Eternal Life must
+consist in the abandonment of the non-eternal elements. These must be
+unloosed and dissociated from the higher elements. And this is effected
+by a closing catastrophe--Death. Natural Law, p. 248.
+
+December 20th. Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the
+organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are
+still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly
+understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to
+each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the
+old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at
+another to counter act one another, understands the rationale of personal
+development. Natural Law, p. 255.
+
+December 21st. It is the Law of Influence that WE BECOME LIKE THOSE WHOM
+WE HABITUALLY ADMIRE. Through all the range of literature, of history,
+and biography this law presides. Men are all mosaics of other men. There
+was a savour of David about Jonathan and a savour of Jonathan about
+David. Jean Valjean, in the masterpiece of Victor Hugo, is Bishop
+Bienvenu risen from the dead. Metempsychosis is a fact. The Changed Life,
+p. 31.
+
+December 22d. Can we shut our eyes to the fact that the religious
+opinions of mankind are in a state of flux? And when we regard the
+uncertainty of current beliefs, the war of creeds, the havoc of
+inevitable as well as of idle doubt, the reluctant abandonment of early
+faith by those who would cherish it longer if they could, is it not plain
+that the one thing thinking men are waiting for is the introduction of
+Law among the Phenomena of the Spiritual World? When that comes we shall
+offer to such men a truly scientific theology. And the Reign of Law will
+transform the whole Spiritual World as it has already transformed the
+Natural World. Natural Law, Preface, p. ix.
+
+December 23d. We have Truth in Nature as it came from God. And it has to
+be read with the same unbiassed mind, the same open eye, the same faith,
+and the same reverence as all other Revelation. All that is found there,
+whatever its place in Theology, whatever its orthodoxy or heterodoxy,
+whatever its narrowness or its breadth, we are bound to accept as
+Doctrine from which on the lines of Science there is no escape. Natural
+Law, Preface, p. xi.
+
+December 24th. In Nature generally, we come upon new Laws as we pass from
+lower to higher kingdoms, the old still remaining in force, the newer
+Laws which one would expect to meet in the Spiritual World would so
+transcend and overwhelm the older as to make the analogy or identity,
+even if traced, of no practical use. The new Laws would represent
+operations and energies so different, and so much more elevated, that
+they would afford the true keys to the Spiritual World. Natural Law, p.
+47.
+
+December 25th. The visible is the ladder up to the invisible; the
+temporal is but the scaffolding of the eternal. And when the last
+immaterial souls have climbed through this material to God, the
+scaffolding shall be taken down, and the earth dissolved with fervent
+heat--not because it was base, but because its work is done. Natural Law,
+p. 57.
+
+December 26th. The natural man belongs essentially to this present order
+of things. He is endowed simply with a high quality of the natural animal
+Life. But it is Life of so poor a quality that it is not Life at all. He
+that hath not the Son hath not Life; but he that hath the Son hath Life--
+a new and distinct and supernatural endowment. He is not of this world.
+He is of the timeless state, of Eternity. IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT HE
+SHALL BE. Natural Law, p. 82.
+
+December 27th. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which
+strikes the simplest observer. Long before the word Evolution was coined
+Christ applied it in this very connection--"First the blade, then the
+ear, then the full corn in the ear." It is well known also to those who
+study the parables of Nature that there is an ascending scale of slowness
+as we rise in the scale of Life. Growth is most gradual in the highest
+forms. Man attains his maturity after a score of years; the monad
+completes its humble cycle in a day. What wonder if development be tardy
+in the Creature of Eternity? A Christian's sun has sometimes set, and a
+critical world has seen as yet no corn in the ear. As yet? "As yet," in
+this long Life, has not begun. Grant him the years proportionate to his
+place in the scale of Life. "The time of harvest is NOT YET." Natural
+Law, p. 92.
+
+December 28th. Salvation is a definite process. If a man refuse to submit
+himself to that process, clearly he cannot have the benefits of it. "As
+many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God." He
+does not avail himself of this power. It may be mere carelessness or
+apathy. Nevertheless the neglect is fatal. He cannot escape because he
+will not. Natural Law, p. 109.
+
+December 29th. The end of Salvation is perfection, the Christ-like mind,
+character, and life. Morality is on the way to this perfection; it may go
+a considerable distance toward it, but it can never reach it. Only Life
+can do that. . . . Morality can never reach perfection; Life MUST. For
+the Life must develop out according to its type; and being a germ of the
+Christ-life, it must unfold into A CHRIST. Natural Law, p. 138.
+
+December 30th. Perfect life is not merely the possessing of perfect
+functions, but of perfect functions perfectly adjusted to each other, and
+all conspiring to a single result, the perfect working of the whole
+organism. It is not said that the character will develop in all its
+fulness in this life. That were a time too short for an Evolution so
+magnificent. In this world only the cornless ear is seen: sometimes only
+the small yet still prophetic blade. Natural Law, p. 129.
+
+December 31st. The immortal soul must give itself to something that is
+immortal. And the only immortal things are these: "Now abideth faith,
+hope, love, but the greatest of these is love." Some think the time may
+come when two of these three things will also pass away--faith into
+sight, hope into fruition. Paul does not say so. We know but little now
+about the conditions of the life that is to come. But what is certain is
+that Love must last. God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet therefore that
+everlasting gift. The Greatest Thing in the World, pp. 54, 55.
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS ***
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+"Beautiful Thoughts" From Henry Drummond
+
+Arranged by Elizabeth Cureton
+
+{Project Gutenberg Editorial note: Many quotes from "The Greatest Thing
+in the World" did not provide a page number.}
+
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+1892
+
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+The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly
+seen, being understood by the things that are made.--Rom. i. 20.
+
+
+To My Dear Friend
+
+Helen M. Archibald
+
+This Book
+
+Is Affectionately Inscribed.
+
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+Preface.
+
+My first thought of writing out this little book of brief selections
+sprang from the desire to assist a dear friend to enjoy the Author's
+helpful books.
+
+The epigrammatic style lends itself to quotation. Taste of the spring
+brings the traveller back to the same fountain on a day of greater
+leisure. Many times these "Beautiful Thoughts" have enlightened my
+darkness, and I send them forth with a hope and prayer that they may find
+echo in other hearts. E. C.
+
+January 1st. Christianity wants nothing so much in the world as sunny
+people, and the old are hungrier for love than for bread, and the Oil of
+Joy is very cheap, and if you can help the poor on with a Garment of
+Praise it will be better for them than blankets. The Programme of
+Christianity, p. 33.
+
+January 2d. No one who knows the content of Christianity, or feels the
+universal need of a Religion, can stand idly by while the intellect of
+his age is slowly divorcing itself from it. Natural Law, Preface, p. 22
+
+January 3d. A Science without mystery is unknown; a Religion without
+mystery is absurd. However far the scientific method may penetrate the
+Spiritual World, there will always remain a region to be explored by a
+scientific faith. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 28.
+
+January 4th. Among the mysteries which compass the world beyond, none is
+greater than how there can be in store for man a work more wonderful, a
+life more God-like than this. The Programme of Christianity, p. 62.
+
+January 5th. The Spiritual Life is the gift of the Living Spirit. The
+spiritual man is no mere development of the Natural man. He is a New
+Creation born from Above. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 65.
+
+January 6th. Love is success, Love is happiness, Love is life. God is
+Love. Therefore LOVE. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 7th. Give me the Charity which delights not in exposing the
+weakness of others, but "covereth all things." The Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+January 8th. There is a sense of solidity about a Law of Nature which
+belongs to nothing else in the world. Here, at last, amid all that is
+shifting, is one thing sure; one thing outside ourselves, unbiassed,
+unprejudiced, uninfluenced by like or dislike, by doubt or fear. . . .
+This more than anything else makes one eager to see the Reign of Law
+traced in the Spiritual Sphere. Natural Law, Preface, p. 23.
+
+January 9th. With Nature as the symbol of all of harmony and beauty that
+is known to man, must we still talk of the supernatural, not as a
+convenient word, but as a different order of world, . . . where the Reign
+of Mystery supersedes the Reign of Law? Natural Law, Introduction, p. 6.
+
+January 10th. The Reign of Law has gradually crept into every department
+of Nature, transforming knowledge everywhere into Science. The process
+goes on, and Nature slowly appears to us as one great unity, until the
+borders of the Spiritual World are reached. Natural Law, Introduction, p.
+13.
+
+January 11th. No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in
+Religion. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 30.
+
+January 12th. I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to
+"raise" faith to knowledge. To me, the way of truth is to come through
+the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then,
+making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge into faith. Natural
+Law, Introduction, p. 28. Quotation from Beck:  Bib. Psychol.
+
+January 13th. If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the
+purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion.
+Natural Law, Introduction, p. 31.
+
+January 14th. With the demonstration of the naturalness of the
+supernatural, scepticism even may come to be regarded as unscientific.
+And those who have wrestled long for a few bare truths to ennoble life
+and rest their souls in thinking of the future will not be left in doubt.
+Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
+
+January 15th. The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more
+from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.
+Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 67.
+
+January 16th. It is impossible to believe that the amazing successions of
+revelations in the domain of Nature, during the last few centuries, at
+which the world has all but grown tired wondering, are to yield nothing
+for the higher life. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
+
+January 17th. Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every
+man and woman every day has a thousand of them. Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+January 18th. What is Science but what the Natural World has said to
+natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to
+Spiritual men? Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 73.
+
+January 19th. Life depends upon contact with Life. It cannot spring up
+out of itself. It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life. There
+is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature. Christ
+is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son
+hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath
+not Life. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 74.
+
+January 20th. It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard,
+uncharitable world, there should still be left a few rare souls who think
+no evil. Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 21st. The physical Laws may explain the inorganic world; the
+biological Laws may account for the development of the organic. But of
+the point where they meet, of that strange borderland between the dead
+and the living, Science is silent. It is as if God had placed everything
+in earth and heaven in the hands of Nature, but reserved a point at the
+genesis of Life for His direct appearing. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p.
+69.
+
+January 22d. Except a mineral be born "from above"--from the Kingdom just
+ABOVE it--it cannot enter the Kingdom just above it. And except a man be
+born "from above," by the same law, he cannot enter the Kingdom just
+above him. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 72.
+
+January 23d. If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see
+that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them.
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 24th. The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life
+is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all
+is how better we can love. Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 25th What a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls
+and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds.
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 26th. The test of Religion, the final test of Religion, is not
+Religiousness, but Love. Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+January 27th. There are not two laws of Bio-genesis, one for the natural,
+the other for the Spiritual; one law is for both. Where-ever there is
+Life, Life of any kind, this same law holds. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p.
+75.
+
+January 28th. The first step in peopling these worlds with the
+appropriate living forms is virtually miracle. Nor in one case is there
+less of mystery in the act than in the other. The second birth is
+scarcely less perplexing to the theologian than the first to the
+embryologist. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 76.
+
+January 29th. There may be cases--they are probably in the majority--
+where the moment of contact with the Living Spirit, though sudden, has
+been obscure. But the real moment and the conscious moment are two
+different things. Science pronounces nothing as to the conscious moment.
+If it did, it would probably say that that was seldom the real moment--
+The moment of birth in the natural world is not a conscious moment--we
+do not know we are born till long afterward. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p.
+93.
+
+January 30th. The stumbling-block to most minds is perhaps less the mere
+existence of the unseen than the want of definition, the apparently
+hopeless vagueness, and not least, the delight in this vagueness as mere
+vagueness by some who look upon this as the mark of quality in Spiritual
+things. It will be at least something to tell earnest seekers that the
+Spiritual World is not a castle in the air, of an architecture unknown
+to earth or heaven, but a fair ordered realm furnished with many familiar
+things and ruled by well-remembered Laws. Natural Law, Introduction, p.
+26.
+
+January 31st. Character grows in the stream of the world's life. That
+chiefly is where men are to learn love. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+February 1st. If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps
+muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in
+his soul, no strength of character, no vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty
+of Spiritual growth. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+February 2d. A Religion without mystery is an absurdity. Even Science has
+its mysteries, none more inscrutable than around this Science of Life. It
+taught us sooner or later to expect mystery, and now we enter its domain.
+Let it be carefully marked, however, that the cloud does not fall and
+cover us till we have ascertained the most momentous truth of Religion--
+that Christ is in the Christian. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 88.
+
+February 3d. Religion in having mystery is in analogy with all around it.
+Where there is exceptional mystery in the Spiritual World it will
+generally be found that there is a corresponding mystery in the natural
+world. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 91.
+
+February 4th. Even to earnest minds the difficulty of grasping the truth
+at all has always proved extreme. Philosophically, one scarcely sees
+either the necessity or the possibility of being born again. Why a
+virtuous man should not simply grow better and better until in his own
+right he enter the Kingdom of God is what thousands honestly and
+seriously fail to understand. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 80.
+
+February 5th. Lavish Love upon our equals, where it is very difficult,
+and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. The Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+February 6th. Spiritual Life is not something outside ourselves. The idea
+is not that Christ is in heaven and that we can stretch out some
+mysterious faculty and deal with Him there. This is the vague form in
+which many conceive the truth, but it is contrary to Christ's teaching
+and to the analogy of nature. Life is definite and resident; and
+Spiritual Life is not a visit from a force, but a resident tenant in the
+soul. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 87.
+
+February 7th. If we neglect almost any of the domestic animals, they will
+rapidly revert to wild and worthless forms. Now, the same thing exactly
+would happen in the case of you or me. Why should man be an exception to
+any of the laws of nature? Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 99.
+
+February 8th. The law of Reversion to Type runs through all creation. If
+a man neglect himself for a few years he will change into a worse and a
+lower man. If it is his body that he neglects, he will deteriorate into a
+wild and bestial savage. . . . If it is his mind, it will degenerate into
+imbecility and madness. . . . If he neglect his conscience, it will run
+off into lawlessness and vice. Or, lastly, if it is his soul, it must
+inevitably atrophy, drop off in ruin and decay. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 99.
+
+February 9th. Three possibilities of life, according to Science, are open
+to all living organisms--Balance, Evolution, and Degeneration. Natural
+Law, Degeneration, p. 100.
+
+February 10th. The life of Balance is difficult. It lies on the verge of
+continual temptation, its perpetual adjustments become fatiguing, its
+measured virtue is monotonous and uninspiring. Natural Law, Degeneration,
+p. 101.
+
+February 11th. More difficult still, apparently, is the life of ever
+upward growth. Most men attempt it for a time, but growth is slow; and
+despair overtakes them while the goal is far away. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 101.
+
+February 12th. Degeneration is easy. Why is it easy? Why but that already
+in each man's very nature this principle is supreme? He feels within his
+soul a silent drifting motion impelling him downward with irresistible
+force. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 101.
+
+February 13th. This is Degeneration--that principle by which the
+organism, failing to develop itself, failing even to keep what it has
+got, deteriorates, and becomes more and more adapted to a degraded form
+of life. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 101.
+
+February 14th. It is a distinct fact by itself, which we can hold and
+examine separately, that on purely natural principles the soul that is
+left to itself unwatched, uncultivated, unredeemed, must fall away into
+death by its own nature. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 104.
+
+February 15th. If a man find the power of sin furiously at work within
+him, dragging his whole life downward to destruction, there is only one
+way to escape his fate--to take resolute hold of the upward power, and be
+borne by it to the opposite goal. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 108.
+
+February 16th. Neglect does more for the soul than make it miss
+salvation. It despoils it of its capacity for salvation. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 110.
+
+February 17th. Give pleasure. Lose no chance in giving pleasure. For that
+is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. Greatest
+Thing in the World.
+
+February 18th. If there were uneasiness there might be hope. If there
+were, somewhere about our soul, a something which was not gone to sleep
+like all the rest; if there were a contending force anywhere; if we would
+let even that work instead of neglecting it, it would gain strength from
+hour to hour, and waken up, one at a time, each torpid and dishonoured
+faculty, till our whole nature became alive with strivings against self,
+and every avenue was open wide for God. Natural Law, Degeneration, p.
+112.
+
+February 19th. Where is the capacity for heaven to come from if it be not
+developed on earth? Where, indeed, is even the smallest appreciation of
+God and heaven to come from when so little of spirituality has ever been
+known or manifested here? Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 116.
+
+February 20th. Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an
+atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there
+is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only
+an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect. Natural Law, Degeneration, p.
+115.
+
+February 21st. Escape means nothing more than the gradual emergence of
+the higher being from the lower, and nothing less. It means the gradual
+putting off of all that cannot enter the higher state, or heaven, and
+simultaneously the putting on of Christ. It involves the slow completing
+of the soul and the development of the capacity for God. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 117.
+
+February 22d. If, then, escape is to be open to us, it is not to come to
+us somehow, vaguely. We are not to hope for anything startling or
+mysterious. It is a definite opening along certain lines which are
+definitely marked by God, which begin at the Cross of Christ, and lead
+direct to Him. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 117.
+
+February 23d. Each man, in the silence of his own soul, must work out
+this salvation for himself with fear and trembling--with fear, realizing
+the momentous issues of his task; with trembling, lest, before the tardy
+work be done, the voice of Death should summon him to stop. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 118.
+
+February 24th. So cultivate the soul that all its powers will open out to
+God, and in beholding God be drawn away from sin. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 118.
+
+February 25th. There is a Sense of Sight in the religious nature. Neglect
+this, leave it undeveloped, and you never miss it. You simply see
+nothing. But develop it and you see God. Natural Law, Degeneration, p.
+118.
+
+February 26th. Become pure in heart. The pure in heart shall see God.
+Here, then, is one opening for soul-culture--the avenue through purity of
+heart to the spiritual seeing of God. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 119.
+
+February 27th. There is a Sense of Sound. Neglect this, leave it
+undeveloped, and you never miss it. Develop it, and you hear God. And the
+line along which to develop it is known to us. Obey Christ. Natural Law,
+Degeneration, p. 119.
+
+February 28th He who loves will rejoice in the Truth, rejoice not in what
+he has been taught to believe; not in this Church's doctrine or in that;
+not in this issue, or in that issue; but "in the Truth." He will accept
+only what is real; he will strive to get at facts; he will search for
+Truth with a humble and unbiassed mind, and cherish whatever he finds at
+any sacrifice. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 1st. "Consider the lilies of the field how they grow." Christ made
+the lilies and He made me--both on the same broad principle. Both
+together, man and flower . . .; but as men are dull at studying
+themselves. He points to this companion-phenomenon to teach us how to
+live a free and natural life, a life which God will unfold for us,
+without our anxiety, as He unfolds the flower. Natural Law, Growth, p.
+123.
+
+March 2d. Our efforts after Christian growth seem only a succession of
+failures, and, instead of rising into the beauty of holiness, our life is
+a daily heart-break and humiliation. Natural Law, Growth, p. 125.
+
+March 3d. The lilies grow, Christ says, of themselves; they toil not,
+neither do they spin. They grow, that is, automatically, spontaneously,
+without trying, without fretting, without thinking. Natural Law, Growth,
+p. 126.
+
+March 4th. Violent efforts to grow are right in earnestness, but wholly
+wrong in principle. There is but one principle of growth both for the
+natural and spiritual, for animal and plant, for body and soul. For all
+growth is an organic thing. And the principle of growing in grace is once
+more this, "Consider the lilies how they grow." Natural Law, Growth, p.
+125.
+
+March 5th. Earnest souls who are attempting sanctification by struggle,
+instead of sanctification by faith, might be spared much humiliation by
+learning the botany of the Sermon on the Mount. Natural Law, Growth, p.
+127.
+
+March 6th. There is only one thing greater than happiness in the world,
+and that is holiness; and it is not in our keeping; but what God HAS put
+in our power is the happiness of those about us, and that is largely to
+be secured by our being kind to them. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 7th. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the
+hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness of eloquence behind which
+lies no love. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 8th. Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy;
+unselfishness; good-temper; guilelessness; sincerity--these make up the
+supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man. The Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+March 9th. We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man.
+We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ spoke much of peace on
+earth. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 10th. If God is spending work upon a Christian, let him be still
+and know that it is God. And if he wants work, he will find it there--in
+the being still. Natural Law, Growth, p. 137.
+
+March 11th. If the amount of energy lost in trying to grow were spent in
+fulfilling rather the conditions of growth, we should have many more
+cubits to show for our stature. Natural Law, Growth, p. 137.
+
+March 12th. The conditions of growth, then, and the inward principle of
+growth being both supplied by Nature, the thing man has to do, the little
+junction left for him to complete, is to apply the one to the other. He
+manufactures nothing; he earns nothing; he need be anxious for nothing;
+his one duty is to be IN these conditions, to abide in them, to allow
+grace to play over him, to be still and know that this is God. Natural
+Law, Growth, p. 138.
+
+March 13th. A man will often have to wrestle with his God--but not for
+growth. The Christian life is a composed life. The Gospel is Peace. Yet
+the most anxious people in the world are Christians--Christians who
+misunderstand the nature of growth. Life is a perpetual self-condemning
+because they are not growing. Natural Law, Growth, p. 139.
+
+March 14th. All the work of the world is merely a taking advantage of
+energies already there. Natural Law, Growth, p. 140.
+
+March 15th. Religion is not a strange or added thing; but the inspiration
+of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this
+temporal world. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 16th. The stature of the Lord Jesus was not itself reached by work,
+and he who thinks to approach its mystical height by anxious effort is
+really receding from it. Natural Law, Growth, p. 127.
+
+March 17th. For the Life must develop out according to its type; and
+being a germ of the Christ-life, it must unfold into a Christ. Natural
+Law, Growth, p. 129.
+
+March 18th. The sneer at the godly man for his imperfections is
+ill-judged. A blade is a small thing. At first it grows very near the
+earth. It is often soiled and crushed and downtrodden. But it is a living
+thing,. . . and "it doth not yet appear what it shall be." Natural Law,
+Growth, p. 129.
+
+March 19th. Christ's protest is not against work, but against anxious
+thought. Natural Law, Growth, p. 136.
+
+March 20th. If God is adding to our spiritual stature, unfolding the new
+nature within us, it is a mistake to keep twitching at the petals with
+our coarse fingers. We must seek to let the Creative Hand alone. "It is
+God which giveth the increase." Natural Law, Growth, p. 137.
+
+March 21st. Love is PATIENCE. This is the normal attitude of Love; Love
+passive, Love waiting to begin; not in a hurry; calm; ready to do its
+work when the summons comes, but meantime wearing the ornament of a meek
+and quiet spirit. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 22d. Have you ever noticed how much of Christ's life was spent in
+doing kind things? The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 23d. I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much
+the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts.
+How infallibly it is remembered. How superabundantly it pays itself back
+--for there is no debtor in the world so honourable, so superbly
+honourable as Love. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 24th. To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever
+is to live forever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up with
+love. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+March 25th. Man is a mass of correspondences, and because of these,
+because he is alive to countless objects and influences to which lower
+organisms are dead, he is the most living of all creatures. Natural Law,
+Death, p. 155.
+
+March 26th. All organisms are living and dead--living to all within the
+circumference of their correspondences, dead to all beyond. . . . Until
+man appears there is no organism to correspond with the whole
+environment. Natural Law, Death, p. 155.
+
+March 27th. Is man in correspondence with the whole environment or is he
+not? . . . He is not. Of men generally it cannot be said that they are in
+living contact with that part of the environment which is called the
+spiritual world. Natural Law, Death, p. 156.
+
+March 28th. The animal world and the plant world are the same world. They
+are different parts of one environment. And the natural and spiritual are
+likewise one. Natural Law, Death, p. 157.
+
+March 29th. What we have correspondence with, that we call natural; what
+we have little or no correspondence with, that we call Spiritual. Natural
+Law, Death, p. 157.
+
+March 30th. Those who are in communion with God live, those who are not
+are dead. Natural Law, Death, p. 158.
+
+March 31st. This earthly mind may be of noble calibre, enriched by
+culture, high-toned, virtuous, and pure. But if it know not God? What
+though its correspondences reach to the stars of heaven or grasp the
+magnitudes of Time and Space? The stars of heaven are not heaven. Space
+is not God. Natural Law, Death, p. 158.
+
+April 1st. We do not picture the possessor of this carnal mind as in any
+sense a monster. We have said he may be high-toned, virtuous, and pure.
+The plant is not a monster because it is dead to the voice of the bird;
+nor is he a monster who is dead to the voice of God. The contention at
+present simply is that he is DEAD. Natural Law, Death, p. 159.
+
+April 2d. What is the creed of the Agnostic, but the confession of the
+spiritual numbness of humanity? Natural Law, Death, p. 160.
+
+April 3d. The nescience of the Agnostic philosophy is the proof from
+experience that to be carnally minded is Death. Natural Law, p. 161.
+
+April 4th. The Christian apologist never further misses the mark than
+when he refuses the testimony of the Agnostic to himself. When the
+Agnostic tells me he is blind and deaf, dumb, torpid, and dead to the
+spiritual world, I must believe him. Jesus tells me that. Paul tells me
+that. Science tells me that. He knows nothing of this outermost circle;
+and we are compelled to trust his sincerity as readily when he deplores
+it as if, being a man without an ear, he professed to know nothing of a
+musical world, or being without taste, of a world of art. Natural Law,
+Death, p. 160.
+
+April 5th. It brings no solace to the unspiritual man to be told he is
+mistaken. To say he is self-deceived is neither to compliment him nor
+Christianity. He builds in all sincerity who raises his altar to the
+UNKNOWN God. He does not know God. With all his marvellous and complex
+correspondences, he is still one correspondence short. Natural Law,
+Death, p. 161.
+
+April 6th. Only one thing truly need the Christian envy, the large, rich,
+generous soul which "envieth not." The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 7th. Whenever you attempt a good work you will find other men doing
+the same kind of work, and probably doing it better. Envy them not. The
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 8th. I say that man believes in a God, who feels himself in the
+presence of a Power which is not himself, and is immeasurably above
+himself, a Power in the contemplation of which he is absorbed, in the
+knowledge of which he finds safety and happiness. Natural Law, Death, p.
+162.
+
+April 9th. What men deny is not a God. It is the correspondence. The very
+confession of the Unknowable is itself the dull recognition of an
+Environment beyond themselves, and for which they feel they lack the
+correspondence. It is this want that makes their God the Unknown God. And
+it is this that makes them DEAD. Natural Law, Death, p. 163.
+
+April 10th. God is not confined to the outermost circle of environment,
+He lives and moves and has His being in the whole. Those who only seek
+Him in the further zone can only find a part. The Christian who knows not
+God in Nature, who does not, that is to say, correspond with the whole
+environment, most certainly is partially dead. Natural Law, Death, p.
+163.
+
+April 11th. After you have been kind, after Love has stolen forth into
+the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and
+say nothing about it. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 12th. The absence of the true Light means moral Death. The darkness
+of the natural world to the intellect is not all. What history testifies
+to is, first the partial, and then the total eclipse of virtue that
+always follows the abandonment of belief in a personal God. Natural Law,
+Death, p. 167.
+
+April 13th. The only greatness is unselfish love. . . . There is a great
+difference between TRYING TO PLEASE and GIVING PLEASURE. The Greatest
+Thing in the World.
+
+April 14th. The conception of a God gives an altogether new colour to
+worldliness and vice. Worldliness it changes into heathenism, vice into
+blasphemy. The carnal mind, the mind which is turned away from God, which
+will not correspond with God--this is not moral only but spiritual Death.
+And Sin, that which separates from God, which disobeys God, which CAN not
+in that state correspond with God--this is hell. Natural Law, Death, p.
+169.
+
+April 15th. If sin is estrangement from God, this very estrangement is
+Death. It is a want of correspondence. If sin is selfishness, it is
+conducted at the expense of life. Its wages are Death--"he that loveth
+his life," said Christ, "shall lose it." Natural Law, Death, p. 170.
+
+April 16th. Obviously if the mind turns away from one part of the
+environment it will only do so under some temptation to correspond with
+another. This temptation, at bottom, can only come from one source--the
+love of self. The irreligious man's correspondences are concentrated upon
+himself. He worships himself. Self-gratification rather than self-denial;
+independence rather than submission--these are the rules of life. And
+this is at once the poorest and the commonest form of idolatry. Natural
+Law, p. 170.
+
+April 17th. You will find . . . that the people who influence you are
+people who believe in you. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 18th. The development of any organism in any direction is dependent
+on its environment. A living cell cut off from air will die. A seed-germ
+apart from moisture and an appropriate temperature will make the ground
+its grave for centuries. Human nature, likewise, is subject to similar
+conditions. It can only develop in presence of its environment. No matter
+what its possibilities may be, no matter what seeds of thought or virtue,
+what germs of genius or of art, lie latent in its breast, until the
+appropriate environment present itself the correspondence is denied, the
+development discouraged, the most splendid possibilities of life remain
+unrealized, and thought and virtue, genius and art, are dead. Natural
+Law, p. 171.
+
+April 19th. The true environment of the moral life is God. Here
+conscience wakes. Here kindles love. Duty here becomes heroic; and that
+righteousness begins to live which alone is to live forever. But if this
+Atmosphere is not, the dwarfed soul must perish for mere want of its
+native air. And its Death is a strictly natural Death. It is not an
+exceptional judgment upon Atheism. In the same circumstances, in the same
+averted relation to their environment, the poet, the musician, the
+artist, would alike perish to poetry, to music, and to art. Natural Law,
+p. 171.
+
+April 20th. Every environment is a cause. Its effect upon me is exactly
+proportionate to my correspondence with it. If I correspond with part of
+it, part of myself is influenced. If I correspond with more, more of
+myself is influenced; if with all, all is influenced. If I correspond
+with the world, I become worldly; if with God, I become Divine. Natural
+Law, Death, p. 171.
+
+April 21st. You can dwarf a soul just as you can dwarf a plant, by
+depriving it of a full environment. Such a soul for a time may have a
+"name to live." Its character may betray no sign of atrophy. But its very
+virtue somehow has the pallor of a flower that is grown in darkness, or
+as the herb which has never seen the sun, no fragrance breathes from its
+spirit. Natural Law, p. 173.
+
+April 22d. I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing,
+therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human
+being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall
+not pass this way again. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 23d. There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in
+giving . . . half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of
+happiness. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 24th. No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not
+drunkenness itself, does more to un-Christianize society than evil
+temper. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 25th. How many prodigals are kept out of the Kingdom of God by the
+unlovely character of those who profess to be inside! The Greatest Thing
+in the World.
+
+April 26th. A want of patience, a want of kindness, a want of generosity,
+a want of courtesy, a want of unselfishness, are all instantaneously
+symbolized in one flash of Temper. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 27th. Souls are made sweet not by taking the acid fluids out, but
+by putting something in--a great Love, a new Spirit--the Spirit of
+Christ. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 28th. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours,
+sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This only can eradicate what is
+wrong, work a chemical change, renovate and regenerate, and rehabilitate
+the inner man. Will-power does not change men. Time does not change men.
+Christ does. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 29th Guilelessness is the grace for suspicious people. And the
+possession of it is the great secret of personal influence. You will
+find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are
+people who believe in you. In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up;
+but in that atmosphere they expand, and find encouragement and educative
+fellowship. The Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+April 30th. Do not quarrel . . . with your lot in life. Do not complain
+of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have
+to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with. The
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+May 1st. The moment the new life is begun there comes a genuine anxiety
+to break with the old. For the former environment has now become
+embarrassing. It refuses its dismissal from consciousness. It competes
+doggedly with the new Environment for a share of the correspondences. And
+in a hundred ways the former traditions, the memories and passions of the
+past, the fixed associations and habits of the earlier life, now
+complicate the new relation. The complex and bewildered soul, in fact,
+finds itself in correspondence with two environments, each with urgent
+but yet incompatible claims. It is a dual soul living in a double world,
+a world whose inhabitants are deadly enemies, and engaged in perpetual
+civil war. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 179.
+
+May 2d. How can the New Life deliver itself from the still-persistent
+past? A ready solution of the difficulty would be TO DIE. . . . If we
+cannot die altogether, . . . the most we can do is to die as much as we
+can. . . . To die to any environment is to withdraw correspondence with
+it, to cut ourselves off, so far as possible, from all communication with
+it. So that the solution of the problem will simply be this, for the
+spiritual life to reverse continuously the processes of the natural life.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 180.
+
+May 3d. The spiritual man having passed from Death unto Life, the natural
+man must next proceed to pass from Life unto Death. Having opened the new
+set of correspondences, he must deliberately close up the old.
+Regeneration in short must be accompanied by Degeneration. Natural Law,
+Mortification, p. 181.
+
+May 4th. The peculiar feature of Death by Suicide is that it is not only
+self-inflicted but sudden. And there are many sins which must either be
+dealt with suddenly or not at all. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 183.
+
+May 5th. If the Christian is to "live unto God," he must "die unto sin."
+If he does not kill sin, sin will inevitably kill him. Recognizing this,
+he must set himself to reduce the number of his correspondences--
+retaining and developing those which lead to a fuller life,
+unconditionally withdrawing those which in any way tend in an opposite
+direction. This stoppage of correspondences is a voluntary act, a
+crucifixion of the flesh, a suicide. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 182.
+
+May 6th. Do not resent temptation; do not be perplexed because it seems
+to thicken round you more and more, and ceases neither for effort nor for
+agony nor prayer. That is your practice. That is the practice which God
+appoints you; and it is having its work in making you patient, and
+humble, and generous, and unselfish, and kind, and courteous. The
+Greatest Thing in the World.
+
+May 7th. It is a peculiarity of the sinful state, that as a general rule
+men are linked to evil mainly by a single correspondence. Few men break
+the whole law. Our natures, fortunately, are not large enough to make us
+guilty of all, and the restraints of circumstances are usually such as to
+leave a loophole in the life of each individual for only a single
+habitual sin. But it is very easy to see how this reduction of our
+intercourse with evil to a single correspondence blinds us to our true
+position. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 186.
+
+May 8th. One little weakness, we are apt to fancy, all men must be
+allowed, and we even claim a certain indulgence for that apparent
+necessity of nature which we call our besetting sin. Yet to break with
+the lower environment at all, to many, is to break at this single point.
+Natural Law, p. 186.
+
+May 9th. There may be only one avenue between the new life and the old,
+it may be but a small and SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE, but this is sufficient to
+keep the old life in. So long as that remains the victim is not "dead
+unto sin," and therefore he cannot "live unto God." Natural Law, p. 187.
+
+May 10th. Do not grudge the hand that is moulding the still too shapeless
+image within you. It is growing more beautiful, though you see it not,
+and every touch of temptation may add to its perfection. Therefore keep
+in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men, and among
+things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. The Greatest
+Thing in the World.
+
+May 11th. Contemplate the love of Christ, and you will love. Stand before
+that mirror, reflect Christ's character, and you will be changed into the
+same image from tenderness to tenderness. There is no other way. You
+cannot love to order. You can only look at the lovely object, and fall in
+love with it, and grow into likeness to it. The Greatest Thing in the
+World.
+
+May 12th. In the natural world it only requires a single vital
+correspondence of the body to be out of order to ensure Death. It is not
+necessary to have consumption, diabetes, and an aneurism to bring the
+body to the grave, if it have heart disease. He who is fatally diseased
+in one organ necessarily pays the penalty with his life, though all the
+others be in perfect health. And such, likewise, are the mysterious unity
+and correlation of functions in the spiritual organism that the disease
+of one member may involve the ruin of the whole. Natural Law,
+Mortification, p. 187.
+
+May 13th. To break altogether, and at every point, with the old
+environment, is a simple impossibility. So long as the regenerate man is
+kept in this world he must find the old environment at many points a
+severe temptation. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 190.
+
+May 14th. Power over very many of the commonest temptations is only to be
+won by degrees, and however anxious one might be to apply the summary
+method to every case, he soon finds it impossible in practice. Natural
+Law, Mortification, p. 190.
+
+May 15th. The ill-tempered person . . . can make very little of his
+environment. However he may attempt to circumscribe it in certain
+directions, there will always remain a wide and ever-changing area to
+stimulate his irascibility. His environment, in short, is an inconstant
+quantity, and his most elaborate calculations and precautions must often
+and suddenly fail him. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 191.
+
+May 16th. What the ill-tempered person has to deal with, . . . mainly, is
+the correspondence, the temper itself. And that, he well knows, involves
+a long and humiliating discipline. The case is not at all a surgical but
+a medical one, and the knife is here of no more use than in a fever. A
+specific irritant has poisoned his veins. And the acrid humours that are
+breaking out all over the surface of his life are only to be subdued by a
+gradual sweetening of the inward spirit. Natural Law, Mortification, p.
+191.
+
+May 17th. The man whose blood is pure has nothing to fear. So he whose
+spirit is purified and sweetened becomes proof against these germs of
+sin. "Anger, wrath, malice and railing" in such a soil can find no root.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 192.
+
+May 18th. The Mortification of a member . . .is based on the Law of
+Degeneration. The useless member here is not cut off, but simply relieved
+as much as possible of all exercise. This encourages the gradual decay of
+the parts, and as it is more and more neglected it ceases to be a channel
+for life at all. So an organism "mortifies" its members. Natural Law,
+Mortification, p. 193.
+
+May 19th. Man's spiritual life consists in the number and fulness of his
+correspondences with God. In order to develop these he may be constrained
+to insulate them, to enclose them from the other correspondences, to shut
+himself in with them. In many ways the limitation of the natural life is
+the necessary condition of the full enjoyment of the spiritual life.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 195.
+
+May 20th. No man is called to a life of self-denial for its own sake. It
+is in order to a compensation which, though sometimes difficult to see,
+is always real and always proportionate. No truth, perhaps, in practical
+religion is more lost sight of. We cherish somehow a lingering rebellion
+against the doctrine of self-denial--as if our nature, or our
+circumstances, or our conscience, dealt with us severely in loading us
+with the daily cross. But is it not plain after all that the life of
+self-denial is the more abundant life--more abundant just in proportion
+to the ampler crucifixion of the narrower life? Is it not a clear case of
+exchange--an exchange, however, where the advantage is entirely on our
+side? We give up a correspondence in which there is a little life to
+enjoy a correspondence in which there is an abundant life. What though we
+sacrifice a hundred such correspondences? We make but the more room for
+the great one that is left. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 195.
+
+May 21st. Do not spoil your life at the outset with unworthy and
+impoverishing correspondences; and if it is growing truly rich and
+abundant, be very jealous of ever diluting its high eternal quality with
+anything of earth. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 196.
+
+May 22d. To concentrate upon a few great correspondences, to oppose to
+the death the perpetual petty larceny of our life by trifles--these are
+the conditions for the highest and happiest life. . . . The penalty of
+evading self-denial also is just that we get the lesser instead of the
+larger good. The punishment of sin is inseparably bound up with itself.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 196.
+
+May 23d. Each man has only a certain amount of life, of time, of
+attention--a definite measurable quantity. If he gives any of it to this
+life solely it is wasted. Therefore Christ says, Hate life, limit life,
+lest you steal your love for it from something that deserves it more.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 197.
+
+May 24th. To refuse to deny one's self is just to be left with the self
+undented. When the balance of life is struck, the self will be found
+still there. The discipline of life was meant to destroy this self, but
+that discipline having been evaded--and we all to some extent have
+opportunities, and too often exercise them, of taking the narrow path by
+the shortest cuts--its purpose is baulked. But the soul is the loser. In
+seeking to gain its life it has really lost it. Natural Law,
+Mortification, p. 196.
+
+May 25th. Suppose we deliberately made up our minds as to what things we
+were henceforth to allow to become our life? Suppose we selected a given
+area of our environment and determined once for all that our
+correspondences should go to that alone, fencing in this area all round
+with a morally impassable wall? True, to others, we should seem to live a
+poorer life; they would see that our environment was circumscribed, and
+call us narrow because it was narrow. But, well-chosen, this limited life
+would be really the fullest life; it would be rich in the highest and
+worthiest, and poor in the smallest and basest, correspondences. Natural
+Law, Mortification, p. 199.
+
+May 26th. The well-defined spiritual life is not only the highest life,
+but it is also the most easily lived. The whole cross is more easily
+carried than the half. It is the man who tries to make the best of both
+worlds who makes nothing of either. And he who seeks to serve two masters
+misses the benediction of both. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 199.
+
+May 27th. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the
+moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the
+moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As memory scans
+the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life, there
+leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do
+unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to
+speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life. The
+Greatest Thing in the World, p. 60.
+
+May 28th. No man can become a saint in his sleep; and to fulfil the
+condition required demands a certain amount of prayer and meditation and
+time, just as improvement in any direction, bodily or mental, requires
+preparation and care. Address yourselves to that one thing; at any cost
+have this transcendent character exchanged for yours. The Greatest Thing
+in the World, p. 60.
+
+May 29th. He who has taken his stand, who has drawn a boundary line,
+sharp and deep, about his religious life, who has marked off all beyond
+as for ever forbidden ground to him, finds the yoke easy and the burden
+light. For this forbidden environment comes to be as if it were not. His
+faculties falling out of correspondence, slowly lose their sensibilities.
+And the balm of Death numbing his lower nature releases him for the
+scarce disturbed communion of a higher life. So even here to die is gain.
+Natural Law, Mortification, p. 199.
+
+May 30th. Remain side by side with Him who loved us, and gave Himself for
+us, and you too will become a permanent magnet, a permanently attractive
+force; and like Him you will draw all men unto you, like Him you will be
+drawn unto all men. That is the inevitable effect of Love. Any man who
+fulfils that cause must have that effect produced in him. The Greatest
+Thing in the World, p. 45.
+
+May 31st. Try to give up the idea that religion comes to us by chance, or
+by mystery, or by caprice. It comes to us by natural law, or by
+supernatural law, for all law is Divine. The Greatest Thing in the World,
+p. 46.
+
+June 1st. We love others, we love everybody, we love our enemies, because
+He first loved us. . . . And that is how the love of God melts down the
+unlovely heart in man, and begets in him the new creature, who is patient
+and humble and gentle and unselfish. The Greatest Thing in the World, p.
+46.
+
+June 2d. The belief in Science as an aid to faith is not yet ripe enough
+to warrant men in searching there for witnesses to the highest Christian
+truths. The inspiration of Nature, it is thought, extends to the humbler
+doctrines alone. And yet the reverent inquirer who guides his steps in
+the right direction may find even now, in the still dim twilight of the
+scientific world, much that will illuminate and intensify his sublimest
+faith. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 204.
+
+June 3d. Life becomes fuller and fuller, richer and richer, more and more
+sensitive and responsive to an ever-widening Environment as we rise in
+the chain of being. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 207.
+
+June 4th. Before we reach an Eternal Life we must pass beyond that point
+at which all ordinary correspondences inevitably cease. We must find an
+organism so high and complex, that at some point in its development it
+shall have added a correspondence which organic death is powerless to
+arrest. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 213.
+
+June 5th. Uninterrupted correspondence with a perfect Environment is
+Eternal Life, according to Science. "This is Life Eternal," said Christ,
+"that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou
+hast sent." Life Eternal is to know God. To know God is to "correspond"
+with God. To correspond with God is to correspond with a Perfect
+Environment. And the organism which attains to this, in the nature of
+things, must live forever. Here is "eternal existence and eternal
+knowledge." Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 215.
+
+June 6th. To find a new Environment again and cultivate relation with it
+is to find a new Life. To live is to correspond, and to correspond is to
+live. So much is true in Science. But it is also true in Religion. And it
+is of great importance to observe that to Religion also the conception of
+Life is a correspondence. No truth of Christianity has been more
+ignorantly or wilfully travestied than the doctrine of Immortality. The
+popular idea, in spite of a hundred protests, is that Eternal Life is to
+live forever. . . . We are told that Life Eternal is not to live. This is
+Life Eternal--TO KNOW. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 216.
+
+June 7th. From time to time the taunt is thrown at Religion, not unseldom
+from lips which Science ought to have taught more caution, that the
+Future Life of Christianity is simply a prolonged existence, an eternal
+monotony, a blind and indefinite continuance of being. The Bible never
+could commit itself to any such empty platitude; nor could Christianity
+ever offer to the world a hope so colourless. Not that Eternal Life has
+nothing to do with everlastingness. That is part of the conception. And
+it is this aspect of the question that first arrests us in the field of
+Science. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 216.
+
+June 8th. Science speaks to us indeed of much more than numbers of years.
+It defines degrees of Life. It explains a widening Environment. It
+unfolds the relation between a widening Environment and increasing
+complexity in organisms. And if it has no absolute contribution to the
+content of Religion, its analogies are not limited to a point. It yields
+to Immortality, and this is the most that Science can do in any case, the
+broad framework for a doctrine. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 217.
+
+June 9th. To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal Unknowable,
+would be everlasting existence; to correspond with "the true God and
+Jesus Christ," is Eternal Life. The quality of the Eternal Life alone
+makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon. Even the brief
+span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years in
+sorrow. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 220.
+
+June 10th. To Christianity, "he that hath the Son of God hath Life, and
+he that hath not the Son hath not Life." This, as we take it, defines the
+correspondence which is to bridge the grave. This is the clue to the
+nature of the Life that lies at the back of the spiritual organism. And
+this is the true solution of the mystery of Eternal Life. Natural Law,
+Eternal Life, p. 227.
+
+June 11th. The relation between the spiritual man and his Environment is,
+in theological language, a filial relation. With the new Spirit, the
+filial correspondence, he knows the Father--and this is Life Eternal.
+Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 229.
+
+June 12th. It takes the Divine to know the Divine--but in no more
+mysterious sense than it takes the human to understand the human. The
+analogy, indeed, for the whole field here has been finely expressed
+already by Paul: "What man," he asks, "knoweth the things of a man, save
+the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no
+man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the
+world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that
+are freely given to us of God."--I. Cor. ii. 11, 12. Natural Law, Eternal
+Life, p. 229.
+
+June 13th. To go outside what we call Nature is not to go outside
+Environment. Nature, the natural Environment, is only a part of
+Environment. There is another large part, which, though some profess to
+have no correspondence with it, is not on that account unreal, or even
+unnatural. The mental and moral world is unknown to the plant. But it is
+real. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 232.
+
+June 14th. Things are natural or supernatural simply according to where
+one stands. Man is supernatural to the mineral; God is supernatural to
+the man. When a mineral is seized upon by the living plant and elevated
+to the organic kingdom, no trespass against Nature is committed. It
+merely enters a larger Environment, which before was supernatural to it,
+but which now is entirely natural. When the heart of a man, again, is
+seized upon by the quickening Spirit of God, no further violence is done
+to natural law. It is another case of the inorganic, so to speak, passing
+into the organic. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 232.
+
+June 15th. Correspondence in any case is the gift of Environment. The
+natural Environment gives men their natural faculties; the spiritual
+affords them their spiritual faculties. It is natural for the spiritual
+Environment to supply the spiritual faculties; it would be quite
+unnatural for the natural Environment to do it. The natural law of
+Bio-genesis forbids it; the moral fact that the finite cannot comprehend
+the Infinite is against it; the spiritual principle that flesh and blood,
+cannot inherit the Kingdom of God renders it absurd. Natural Law, Eternal
+Life, p. 233.
+
+June 16th. Organisms are not added to by accretion, as in the case of
+minerals, but by growth. And the spiritual faculties are organized in the
+spiritual protoplasm of the soul, just as other faculties are organized
+in the protoplasm of the body. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 233.
+
+June 17th. It ought to be placed in the forefront of all Christian
+teaching that Christ's mission on earth was to give men Life. "I am
+come," He said, "that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more
+abundantly." And that He meant literal Life, literal spiritual and
+Eternal Life, is clear from the whole course of His teaching and acting.
+Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 235.
+
+June 18th. The effort to detect the living Spirit must be at least as
+idle as the attempt to subject protoplasm to microscopic examination in
+the hope of discovering Life. We are warned, also, not to expect too
+much. "Thou canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth." Natural
+Law, Eternal Life, p. 237.
+
+June 19th. Many men would be religious if they knew where to begin; many
+would be more religious if they were sure where it would end. It is not
+indifference that keeps some men from God, but ignorance. "Good Master,
+what must I do to inherit Eternal Life?" is still the deepest question of
+the age. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 237.
+
+June 20th. The voice of God and the voice of Nature. I cannot be wrong if
+I listen to them. Sometimes, when uncertain of a voice from its very
+loudness, we catch the missing syllable in the echo. In God and Nature we
+have Voice and Echo. When I hear both, I am assured. My sense of hearing
+does not betray me twice. I recognize the Voice in the Echo, the Echo
+makes me certain of the Voice; I listen and I know. Natural Law, Eternal
+Life, p. 238.
+
+June 21st. The soul is a living organism. And for any question as
+to the soul's Life we must appeal to Life-science. And what does the
+Life-science teach? That if I am to inherit Eternal Life, I must
+cultivate a correspondence with the Eternal. Natural Law, Eternal Life,
+p. 239.
+
+June 22d. All knowledge lies in Environment. When I want to know about
+minerals I go to minerals. When I want to know about flowers I go to
+flowers. And they tell me. In their own way they speak to me, each in its
+own way, and each for itself--not the mineral for the flower, which is
+impossible, nor the flower for the mineral, which is also impossible. So
+if I want to know about Man, I go to his part of the Environment. And he
+tells me about himself, not as the plant or the mineral, for he is
+neither, but in his own way. And if I want to know about God, I go to His
+part of the Environment. And He tells me about Himself, not as a Man, for
+He is not Man, but in His own way. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 239.
+
+June 23d. Just as naturally as the flower and the mineral and the Man,
+each in their own way, tell me about themselves, He tells me about
+Himself. He very strangely condescends indeed in making things plain to
+me, actually assuming for a time the Form of a Man that I at my poor
+level may better see Him. This is my opportunity to know Him. This
+incarnation is God making Himself accessible to human thought--God
+opening to Man the possibility of correspondence through Jesus Christ.
+Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 240.
+
+June 24th. Having opened correspondence with the Eternal Environment, the
+subsequent stages are in the line of all other normal development. We
+have but to continue, to deepen, to extend, and to enrich the
+correspondence that has been begun. And we shall soon find to our
+surprise that this is accompanied by another and parallel process. The
+action is not all upon our side. The Environment also will be found to
+correspond. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 241.
+
+June 25th. Let us look for the influence of Environment on the spiritual
+nature of him who has opened correspondence with God. Reaching out his
+eager and quickened faculties to the spiritual world around him, shall he
+not become spiritual? In vital contact with Holiness, shall he not become
+holy? Breathing now an atmosphere of ineffable Purity, shall he miss
+becoming pure? Walking with God from day to day, shall he fail to be
+taught of God? Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 242.
+
+June 26th. Growth in grace is sometimes described as a strange, mystical,
+and unintelligible process. It is mystical, but neither strange nor
+unintelligible. It proceeds according to Natural Law, and the leading
+factor in sanctification is Influence of Environment. Natural Law,
+Eternal Life, p. 242.
+
+June 27th. Will the evolutionist who admits the regeneration of the frog
+under the modifying influence of a continued correspondence with a new
+environment, care to question the possibility of the soul acquiring such
+a faculty as that of Prayer, the marvellous breathing-function of the new
+creature, when in contact with the atmosphere of a besetting God? Is the
+change from the earthly to the heavenly more mysterious than the change
+from the aquatic to the terrestrial mode of life? Is Evolution to stop
+with the organic? If it be objected that it has taken ages to perfect the
+function in the batrachian, the reply is, that it will take ages to
+perfect the function in the Christian. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 244.
+
+June 28th. We have indeed spoken of the spiritual correspondence as
+already perfect--but it is perfect only as the bud is perfect. "It doth
+not yet appear what it shall be," any more than it appeared a million
+years ago what the evolving batrachian would be. Natural Law, Eternal
+Life, p. 244.
+
+June 29th. In a sense, all that belongs to Time belongs also to Eternity;
+but these lower correspondences are in their nature unfitted for an
+Eternal Life. Even if they were perfect in their relation to their
+Environment, they would still not be Eternal. . . . An Eternal Life
+demands an Eternal Environment. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 245.
+
+June 30th. The final preparation . . . for the inheriting of Eternal Life
+must consist in the abandonment of the non-eternal elements. These must
+be unloosed and dissociated from the higher elements, And this is
+effected by a closing catastrophe--Death. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p.
+248.
+
+July 1st. "Perfect correspondence," according to Mr. Herbert Spencer,
+would be "perfect Life." To abolish Death, therefore, all that would be
+necessary would be to abolish Imperfection. But it is the claim of
+Christianity that it can abolish Death. And it is significant to notice
+that it does so by meeting this very demand of Science--it abolishes
+Imperfection. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 249.
+
+July 2d. The part of the organism which begins to get out of
+correspondence with the Organic Environment is the only part which is in
+vital correspondence with it. Though a fatal disadvantage to the natural
+man to be thrown out of correspondence with this Environment, it is of
+inestimable importance to the spiritual man. For so long as it is
+maintained the way is barred for a further Evolution. And hence the
+condition necessary for the further Evolution is that the spiritual be
+released from the natural. That is to say, the condition of the further
+Evolution is Death. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 249.
+
+July 3d. The sifting of the correspondences is done by Nature. This is
+its last and greatest contribution to mankind. Over the mouth of the
+grave the perfect and the imperfect submit to their final separation.
+Each goes to its own--earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
+Spirit to Spirit. "The dust shall return to the earth as it was; and the
+Spirit shall return unto God who gave it." Natural Law, Eternal Life, p.
+249.
+
+July 4th. Few things are less understood than the conditions of the
+spiritual life. The distressing incompetence of which most of us are
+conscious in trying to work out our spiritual experience is due perhaps
+less to the diseased will which we commonly blame for it than to
+imperfect knowledge of the right conditions. It does not occur to us how
+natural the spiritual is. We still strive for some strange transcendent
+thing; we seek to promote life by methods as unnatural as they prove
+unsuccessful; and only the utter incomprehensibility of the whole region
+prevents us seeing fully--what we already half-suspect--how completely we
+are missing the road. Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.
+
+July 5th. Living in the spiritual world . . . is just as simple as living
+in the natural world; and it is the same kind of simplicity. It is the
+same kind of simplicity for it is the same kind of world--there are not
+two kinds of worlds. The conditions of life in the one are the conditions
+of life in the other. And till these conditions are sensibly grasped, as
+the conditions of all life, it is impossible that the personal effort
+after the highest life should be other than a blind struggle carried on
+in fruitless sorrow and humiliation. Natural Law, Environment, p. 257.
+
+July 6th. Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the
+organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are
+still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly
+understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to
+each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the
+old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at
+another to counteract one another, understands the rationale of personal
+development. Natural Law, Environment, p. 255.
+
+July 7th. To seize continuously the opportunity of more and more perfect
+adjustment to better and higher conditions, to balance some inward evil
+with some purer influence acting from without, in a word to make our
+Environment at the same time that it is making us--these are the secrets
+of a well-ordered and successful life. Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.
+
+July 8th. In the spiritual world . . . the subtle influences which form
+and transform the soul are Heredity and Environment. And here especially,
+where all is invisible, where much that we feel to be real is yet so ill
+defined, it becomes of vital practical moment to clarify the atmosphere
+as far as possible with conceptions borrowed from the natural life.
+Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.
+
+July 9th. What Heredity has to do for us is determined outside ourselves.
+No man can select his own parents. But every man to some extent can
+choose his own Environment. His relation to it, however largely
+determined by Heredity in the first instance, is always open to
+alteration. And so great is his control over Environment and so radical
+its influence over him, that he can so direct it as either to undo,
+modify, perpetuate, or intensify the earlier hereditary influences within
+certain limits. Natural Law, Environment, p. 257.
+
+July 10th. One might show how the moral man is acted upon and changed
+continuously by the influences, secret and open, of his surroundings, by
+the tone of society, by the company he keeps, by his occupation, by the
+books he reads, by Nature, by all, in short, that constitutes the
+habitual atmosphere of his thoughts and the little world of his daily
+choice. Or one might go deeper still and prove how the spiritual life
+also is modified from outside sources--its health or disease, its growth
+or decay, all its changes for better or for worse being determined by the
+varying and successive circumstances in which the religious habits are
+cultivated. Natural Law, Environment, p. 260.
+
+July 11th. In the spiritual world . . . he will be wise who courts
+acquaintance with the most ordinary and transparent facts of Nature; and
+in laying the foundations for a religious life he will make no unworthy
+beginning who carries with him an impressive sense of so obvious a truth
+as that without Environment there can be no life. Natural Law,
+Environment, p. 264.
+
+July 12th. There is in the spiritual organism a principle of life; but
+that is not self-existent. It requires a second factor, a something in
+which to live and move and have its being, an Environment. Without this
+it cannot live or move or have any being. Without Environment the soul is
+as the carbon without the oxygen, as the fish without the water, as the
+animal frame without the extrinsic conditions of vitality. Natural Law,
+Environment, p. 264.
+
+July 13th. What is the Spiritual Environment? It is God. Without this,
+therefore, there is no life, no thought, no energy, nothing---"without Me
+ye can do nothing." Natural Law, Environment, p. 265.
+
+July 14th. The cardinal error in the religious life is to attempt to live
+without an Environment. Spiritual experience occupies itself, not too
+much, but too exclusively, with one factor--the soul. We delight in
+dissecting this much-tortured faculty, from time to time, in search of a
+certain something which we call our faith--forgetting that faith is but
+an attitude, an empty hand for grasping an environing Presence. Natural
+Law, Environment, p 265.
+
+July 15th. When we feel the need of a power by which to overcome the
+world, how often do we not seek to generate it within ourselves by some
+forced process, some fresh girding of the will, some strained activity
+which only leaves the soul in further exhaustion? Natural Law,
+Environment, p. 265.
+
+July 16th. To examine ourselves is good; but useless unless we also
+examine Environment. To bewail our weakness is right, but not remedial.
+The cause must be investigated as well as the result. And yet, because we
+never see the other half of the problem, our failures even fail to
+instruct us. After each new collapse we begin our life anew, but on the
+old conditions; and the attempt ends as usual in the repetition--in the
+circumstances the inevitable repetition--of the old disaster. Natural
+Law, Environment, p. 265.
+
+July 17th. After seasons of much discouragement, with the sore sense upon
+us of our abject feebleness, we do confer with ourselves, insisting for
+the thousandth time, "My soul, wait thou only upon God." But, the lesson
+is soon forgotten. The strength supplied we speedily credit to our own
+achievement; and even the temporary success is mistaken for a symptom of
+improved inward vitality. Once more we become self-existent. Once more we
+go on living without an Environment. And once more, after days of wasting
+without repairing, of spending without replenishing, we begin to perish
+with hunger, only returning to God again, as a last resort, when we have
+reached starvation point. Natural Law, Environment, p. 266.
+
+July 18th. Why this unscientific attempt to sustain life for weeks at a
+time without an Environment? It is because we have never truly seen the
+necessity for an Environment. We have not been working with a principle.
+We are told to "wait only upon God," but we do not know why. It has never
+been as clear to us that without God the soul will die as that without
+food the body will perish. In short, we have never comprehended the
+doctrine of the Persistence of Force. Instead of being content to
+transform energy we have tried to create it. Natural Law, Environment, p.
+266.
+
+July 19th. Whatever energy the soul expends must first be "taken into it
+from without." We are not Creators, but creatures; God is our refuge AND
+STRENGTH. Communion with God, therefore, is a scientific necessity; and
+nothing will more help the defeated spirit which is struggling in the
+wreck of its religious life than a common-sense hold of this biological
+principle that without Environment he can do nothing. Natural Law,
+Environment, p. 267.
+
+July 20th. Who has not come to the conclusion that he is but a part, a
+fraction of some larger whole? Who does not miss, at every turn of his
+life, an absent God? That man is but a part, he knows, for there is room
+in him for more. That God is the other part, he feels, because at times
+He satisfies his need. Who does not tremble often under that sicklier
+symptom of his incompleteness, his want of spiritual energy, his
+helplessness with sin? But now he understands both--the void in his life,
+the powerlessness of his will. He understands that, like all other
+energy, Spiritual power is contained in Environment. He finds here at
+last the true root of all human frailty, emptiness, nothingness, sin.
+This is why "without Me ye can do nothing." Powerlessness is the normal
+state, not only of this, but of every organism--of every organism apart
+from its Environment. Natural Law, p. 268.
+
+July 21st. Friendship is the nearest thing we know to what religion is.
+God is love. And to make religion akin to Friendship is simply to give it
+the highest expression conceivable by man. The Changed Life, p. 49.
+
+July 22d. The entire dependence of the soul upon God is not an
+exceptional mystery, nor is man's helplessness an arbitrary and
+unprecedented phenomenon. It is the law of all Nature. The spiritual man
+is not taxed beyond the natural. He is not purposely handicapped by
+singular limitations or unusual incapacities. God has not designedly made
+the religious life as hard as possible. The arrangements for the
+spiritual life are the same as for the natural life. When, in their hours
+of unbelief, men challenge their Creator for placing the obstacle of
+human frailty in the way of their highest development, their protest is
+against the order of Nature. Natural Law, p. 269.
+
+July 23d. The organism must either depend on his environment, or be
+self-sufficient. But who will not rather approve the arrangement by which
+man in his creatural life may have unbroken access to an Infinite Power?
+What soul will seek to remain self-luminous when it knows that "The Lord
+God is a Sun?" Who will not willingly exchange his shallow vessel for
+Christ's well of living water. Natural Law, p. 270.
+
+July 24th. The New Testament is nowhere more impressive than where it
+insists on the fact of man's dependence. In its view the first step in
+religion is for man to feel his helplessness. Christ's first beatitude is
+to the poor in spirit. The condition of entrance into the spiritual
+kingdom is to possess the child-spirit--that state of mind combining at
+once the profoundest helplessness with the most artless feeling of
+dependence. Natural Law, p. 271.
+
+July 25th. Fruit-bearing without Christ is not an improbability, but an
+impossibility. As well expect the natural fruit to flourish without air
+and heat, without soil and sunshine. How thoroughly also Paul grasped
+this truth is apparent from a hundred pregnant passages in which he
+echoes his Master's teaching. To him life was hid with Christ in God. And
+that he embraced this, not as a theory but as an experimental truth, we
+gather from his constant confession, "When I am weak, then am I strong."
+Natural Law, p. 271.
+
+July 26th. One result of the due apprehension of our personal
+helplessness will be that we shall no longer waste our time over the
+impossible task of manufacturing energy for ourselves. Our science will
+bring to an abrupt end the long series of severe experiments in which we
+have indulged in the hope of finding a perpetual motion. And having
+decided upon this once for all, our first step in seeking a more
+satisfactory state of things must be to find a new source of energy.
+Following Nature, only one course is open to us. We must refer to
+Environment. The natural life owes all to Environment, so must the
+spiritual. Now the Environment of the spiritual life is God. As Nature,
+therefore, forms the complement of the natural life. God is the
+complement of the spiritual. Natural Law, p. 272.
+
+July 27th. Do not think that nothing is happening because you do not see
+yourself grow, or hear the whirr of the machinery. All great things grow
+noiselessly. You can see a mushroom grow, but never a child. Mr. Darwin
+tells us that Evolution proceeds by "numerous, successive, and slight
+modifications." The Changed Life, p. 54.
+
+July 28th. We fail to praise the ceaseless ministry of the great
+inanimate world around us only because its kindness is unobtrusive.
+Nature is always noiseless. All her greatest gifts are given in secret.
+And we forget how truly every good and perfect gift comes from without,
+and from above, because no pause in her changeless beneficence teaches us
+the sad lessons of deprivation. Natural Law, p. 274.
+
+July 29th. It is not a strange thing for the soul to find its life in
+God. This is its native air. God as the Environment of the soul has been
+from the remotest age the doctrine of all the deepest thinkers in
+religion. How profoundly Hebrew poetry is saturated with this high
+thought will appear when we try to conceive of it with this left out.
+Natural Law, p. 374.
+
+July 30th. The alternatives of the intellectual life are Christianity or
+Agnosticism. The Agnostic is right when he trumpets his incompleteness.
+He who is not complete in Him must be for ever incomplete. Natural Law,
+p. 278.
+
+July 31st. The problems of the heart and conscience are infinitely more
+perplexing than those of the intellect. Has love no future? Has right no
+triumph? Is the unfinished self to remain unfinished? The alternatives
+are two, Christianity or Pessimism. But when we ascend the further height
+of the religious nature, the crisis comes. There, without Environment,
+the darkness is unutterable. So maddening now becomes the mystery that
+men are compelled to construct an Environment for themselves. No
+Environment here is unthinkable. An altar of some sort men must have--
+God, or Nature, or Law. But the anguish of Atheism is only a negative
+proof of man's incompleteness. Natural Law, p. 279.
+
+August 1st. A photograph prints from the negative only while exposed to
+the sun. While the artist is looking to see how it is getting on he
+simply stops the getting on. Whatever of wise supervision the soul may
+need, it is certain it can never be over-exposed, or that, being exposed,
+anything else in the world can improve the result or quicken it. The
+Changed Life, pp. 56, 57.
+
+August 2d. What a very strange thing, is it not, for man to pray? It is
+the symbol at once of his littleness and of his greatness. Here the sense
+of imperfection, controlled and silenced in the narrower reaches of his
+being, becomes audible. Now he must utter himself. The sense of need is
+so real, and the sense of Environment, that he calls out to it,
+addressing it articulately, and imploring it to satisfy his need. Surely
+there is nothing more touching in Nature than this? Man could never so
+expose himself, so break through all constraint, except from a dire
+necessity. Natural Law, p. 279.
+
+August 3d. What is Truth? The natural Environment answers, "Increase of
+Knowledge increaseth Sorrow," and "much study is a Weariness." Christ
+replies, "Learn of Me, and ye shall find Rest." Contrast the world's word
+"Weariness" with Christ's word "Rest." No other teacher since the world
+began has ever associated "learn" with "Rest." Learn of me, says the
+philosopher, and you shall find Restlessness. Learn of Me, says Christ,
+and ye shall find Rest. Natural Law, p. 280.
+
+August 4th. Men will have to give up the experiment of attempting to live
+in half an Environment. Half an Environment will give but half a Life.
+. . . He whose correspondences are with this world alone has only a
+thousandth part, a fraction, the mere rim and shade of an Environment,
+and only the fraction of a Life. How long will it take Science to believe
+its own creed, that the material universe we see around us is only a
+fragment of the universe we do not see? Natural Law, p. 282.
+
+August 5th. The Life of the senses, high and low, may perfect itself in
+Nature. Even the Life of thought may find a large complement in
+surrounding things. But the higher thought, and the conscience, and the
+religious Life, can only perfect themselves in God. Natural Law, p. 283.
+
+August 6th. To make the influence of Environment stop with the natural
+world is to doom the spiritual nature to death. For the soul, like the
+body, can never perfect itself in isolation. The law for both is to be
+complete in the appropriate Environment. Natural Law, p. 283.
+
+August 7th. Take into your new sphere of labour, where you also mean to
+lay down your life, that simple charm, Love, and your life-work must
+succeed. You can take nothing greater, you need take nothing less. It is
+not worth while going if you take anything less. The Greatest Thing in
+the World, p. 17.
+
+August 8th. Politeness has been defined as love in trifles. Courtesy is
+said to be love in little things. And the one secret of politeness is to
+love. Love CANNOT behave itself unseemly. You can put the most untutored
+persons into the highest society, and if they have a reservoir of Love in
+their heart, they will not behave themselves unseemly. They simply cannot
+do it. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 26.
+
+August 9th. I believe that Christ's yoke is easy. Christ's "yoke" is just
+His way of taking life. And I believe it is an easier way than any other.
+I believe it is a happier way than any other. The most obvious lesson in
+Christ's teaching is that there is no happiness in having and getting
+anything, but only in giving. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 29.
+
+August 10th. Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of
+happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being
+served by others. It consists in giving, and in serving others. He that
+would be great among you, said Christ, let him serve. He that would be
+happy, let him remember that there is but one way--it is more blessed, it
+is more happy, to give than to receive. The Greatest Thing in the World,
+p. 30.
+
+August 11th. "Love is not easily provoked." . . . We are inclined to look
+upon bad temper as a very harmless weakness. We speak of it as a mere
+infirmity of nature, a family failing, a matter of temperament, not a
+thing to take into very serious account in estimating a man's character.
+And yet here, right in the heart of this analysis of love, it finds a
+place; and the Bible again and again returns to condemn it as one of the
+most destructive elements in human nature. The Greatest Thing in the
+World, p. 30.
+
+August 12th. The peculiarity of ill-temper is that it is the vice of the
+virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You
+know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely
+perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy"
+disposition. This compatibility of ill-temper with high moral character
+is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics. The Greatest
+Thing in the World, p. 31.
+
+August 13th. What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good
+musician? Practice. . . . What makes a man a good man? Practice. Nothing
+else. There is nothing capricious about religion. We do not get the soul
+in different ways, under different laws, from those in which we get the
+body and the mind. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 40.
+
+August 14th. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich,
+strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole round Christian
+character--the Christ-like nature in its fullest development. And the
+constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless
+practice. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 41.
+
+August 15th. We know but little now about the conditions of the life that
+is to come. But what is certain is that Love must last. God, the Eternal
+God, is Love. Covet, therefore, that everlasting gift. The Greatest Thing
+in the World, p. 54.
+
+August 16th. To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love
+forever is to live forever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up
+with love. . . . Love must be eternal. It is what God is. The Greatest
+Thing in the World, pp. 57, 58.
+
+August 17th. When a man becomes a Christian the natural process is this:
+The Living Christ enters into his soul. Development begins. The
+quickening Life seizes upon the soul, assimilates surrounding elements,
+and begins to fashion it. According to the great Law of Conformity to
+Type this fashioning takes a specific form. It is that of the Artist who
+fashions. And all through Life this wonderful, mystical, glorious, yet
+perfectly definite, process, goes on "until Christ be formed" in it.
+Natural Law, p. 294.
+
+August 18th. The Christian Life is not a vague effort after
+righteousness--an ill-defined, pointless struggle for an ill-defined,
+pointless end. Religion is no dishevelled mass of aspiration, prayer, and
+faith. There is no more mystery in Religion as to its processes than in
+Biology. Natural Law, p. 294.
+
+August 19th. There is much mystery in Biology. "We know all but nothing
+of Life" yet, nothing of development. There is the same mystery in the
+spiritual Life. But the great lines are the same, as decided, as
+luminous; and the laws of natural and spiritual are the same, as
+unerring, as simple. Will everything else in the natural world unfold its
+order, and yield to Science more and more a vision of harmony, and
+Religion, which should complement and perfect all, remain a chaos?
+Natural Law, p. 294.
+
+August 20th. When one attempts to sanctify himself by effort, he is
+trying to make his boat go by pushing against the mast. He is like a
+drowning man trying to lift himself out of the water by pulling at the
+hair of his own head. Christ held up this method almost to ridicule when
+He said: "Which of you by taking thought can add a cubit to his stature?"
+The one redeeming feature of the self-sufficient method is this--that
+those who try it find out almost at once that it will not gain the goal.
+The Changed Life, p. 11.
+
+August 21st. The Image of Christ that is forming within us--that is
+life's one charge. Let every project stand aside for that. "Till Christ
+be formed," no man's work is finished, no religion crowned, no life has
+fulfilled its end. The Changed Life, p. 62.
+
+August 22d. Our companionship with Him, like all true companionship, is a
+spiritual communion. All friendship, all love, human and Divine, is
+purely spiritual. It was after He was risen that He influenced even the
+disciples most. The Changed Life, p. 38.
+
+August 23d. Make Christ your most constant companion. Be more under His
+influence than under any other influence. Ten minutes spent in His
+society every day, ay, two minutes if it be face to face, and heart to
+heart, will make the whole day different. Every character has an inward
+spring, let Christ be it. Every action has a key-note, let Christ set it.
+The Changed Life, p. 40.
+
+August 24th. Under the right conditions it is as natural for character to
+become beautiful as for a flower; and if on God's earth there is not some
+machinery for effecting it, the supreme gift to the world has been
+forgotten. This is simply what man was made for. With Browning: "I say
+that Man was made to grow, not stop." The Changed Life, p. 10.
+
+August 25th. How can modern men today make Christ, the absent Christ,
+their most constant companion still? The answer is that Friendship is a
+spiritual thing. It is independent of Matter, or Space, or Time. That
+which I love in my friend is not that which I see. What influences me in
+my friend is not his body but his spirit. The Changed Life, p. 37.
+
+August 26th. Love should be the supreme thing--because it is going to
+last; because in the nature of things it is an Eternal Life. It is a
+thing that we are living now, not that we get when we die; that we shall
+have a poor chance of getting when we die unless we are living now. The
+Greatest Thing in the World, p. 58.
+
+August 27th. When will it be seen that the characteristic of the
+Christian Religion is its Life, that a true theology must begin with a
+Biology? Theology is the Science of God. Why will men treat God as
+inorganic? Natural Law, p. 297.
+
+August 28th. We should be forsaking the lines of nature were we to
+imagine for a moment that the new creature was to be formed out of
+nothing. Nothing can be made out of nothing. Matter is uncreatable and
+indestructible; Nature and man can only form and transform. Hence when a
+new animal is made, no new clay is made. Life merely enters into already
+existing matter, assimilates more of the same sort and rebuilds it. The
+spiritual Artist works in the same way. He must have a peculiar kind of
+protoplasm, a basis of life, and that must be already existing. Natural
+Law, p. 297.
+
+August 29th. However active the intellectual or moral life may be, from
+the point of view of this other Life it is dead. That which is flesh is
+flesh. It wants, that is to say, the kind of Life which constitutes the
+difference between the Christian and the not-a-Christian, It has not yet
+been "born of the Spirit." Natural Law, p. 299.
+
+August 30th. The protoplasm in man has a something in addition to its
+instincts or its habits. It has a capacity for God. In this capacity for
+God lies its receptivity; it is the very protoplasm that was necessary.
+The chamber is not only ready to receive the new Life, but the Guest is
+expected, and, till He comes, is missed. Till then the soul longs and
+yearns, wastes and pines, waving its tentacles piteously in the empty
+air, feeling after God if so be that it may find Him. This is not
+peculiar to the protoplasm of the Christian's soul. In every land and in
+every age there have been altars to the Known or Unknown God. Natural
+Law, p. 300.
+
+August 31st. It is now agreed as a mere question of anthropology that the
+universal language of the human soul has always been "I perish with
+hunger." This is what fits it for Christ. There is a grandeur in this cry
+from the depths which makes its very unhappiness sublime. Natural Law, p.
+300.
+
+September 1st. In reflecting the character of Christ, it is no real
+obstacle that we may never have been in visible contact with Himself.
+Many men know Dante better than their own fathers. He influences them
+more. As a spiritual presence he is more near to them, as a spiritual
+force more real. Is there any reason why a greater than . . . Dante
+should not also instruct, inspire, and mould the characters of men? The
+Changed Life, pp. 38, 52.
+
+September 2d. Mark this distinction. . . . Imitation is mechanical,
+reflection organic. The one is occasional, the other habitual. In the one
+case, man comes to God and imitates Him; in the other, God comes to man
+and imprints Himself upon him. It is quite true that there is an
+imitation of Christ which amounts to reflection. But Paul's term includes
+all that the other holds, and is open to no mistake. "Whom having not
+seen, I love." The Changed Life, p. 39.
+
+September 3d. In paraphrase: We all reflecting as a mirror the character
+of Christ are transformed into the same Image from character to
+character--from a poor character to a better one, from a better one to
+one a little better still, from that to one still more complete, until by
+slow degrees the Perfect Image is attained. Here the solution of the
+problem of sanctification is compressed into a sentence: Reflect the
+character of Christ and you will become like Christ. The Changed Life, p.
+24.
+
+September 4th. Not more certain is it that it is something outside the
+thermometer that produces a change in the thermometer, than it is
+something outside the soul of man that produces a moral change upon him.
+That he must be susceptible to that change, that he must be a party to
+it, goes without saying; but that neither his aptitude nor his will can
+produce it is equally certain. The Changed Life, p. 20.
+
+September 5th. Just as in an organism we have these three things--
+formative matter, formed matter, and the forming principle or life; so in
+the soul we have the old nature, the renewed nature, and. the
+transforming Life. Natural Law, p. 302.
+
+September 6th. Is it hopeless to point out that one of the most
+recognizable characteristics of life is its unrecognizableness, and that
+the very token of its spiritual nature lies in its being beyond the
+grossness of our eyes? Natural Law, p. 302.
+
+September 7th. According to the doctrine of Bio-genesis, life can only
+come from life. It was Christ's additional claim that His function in the
+world, was to give men Life. "I am come that ye might have Life, and that
+ye might have it more abundantly." This could, not refer to the natural
+life, for men had that already. He that hath the Son hath another Life.
+"Know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you." Natural
+Law, p. 303.
+
+September 8th. The recognition of the Ideal is the first step in the
+direction of Conformity. But let it be clearly observed that it is but a
+step. There is no vital connection between merely seeing the Ideal and
+being conformed to it. Thousands admire Christ who never become
+Christians. Natural Law, p. 306.
+
+September 9th. For centuries men have striven to find out ways and means
+to conform themselves to the Christ Life. Impressive motives have been
+pictured, the proper circumstances arranged, the direction of effort
+defined, and men have toiled, struggled, and agonized to conform
+themselves to the Image of the Son. Can the protoplasm CONFORM ITSELF to
+its type? Can the embryo FASHION ITSELF? Is Conformity to Type produced
+by the matter OR BY THE LIFE, by the protoplasm or by the Type? Is
+organization the cause of life or the effect of it? It is the effect of
+it. Conformity to Type, therefore, is secured by the type. Christ makes
+the Christian. Natural Law, p. 307.
+
+September 10th. O preposterous and vain man, thou who couldest not make a
+fingernail of thy body, thinkest thou to fashion this wonderful,
+mysterious, subtle soul of thine after the ineffable Image? Wilt thou
+ever permit thyself TO BE conformed to the Image of the Son? Wilt thou,
+who canst not add a cubit to thy stature, submit TO BE raised by the
+Type-Life within thee to the perfect stature of Christ Natural Law, p.
+308.
+
+September 11th. Men will still experiment "by works of righteousness
+which they have done" to earn the Ideal life. The doctrine of Human
+Inability, as the Church calls it, has always been objectionable to men
+who do not know themselves. Natural Law, p. 309.
+
+September 12th. Let man choose Life; let him daily nourish his soul; let
+him forever starve the old life; let him abide continuously as a living
+branch in the Vine, and the True-Vine Life will flow into his soul,
+assimilating, renewing, conforming to Type, till Christ, pledged by His
+own law, be formed in him. Natural Law, p. 312.
+
+September 13th. The work begun by Nature is finished by the Supernatural
+--as we are wont to call the higher natural. And as the veil is lifted by
+Christianity it strikes men dumb with wonder. For the goal of Evolution
+is Jesus Christ. Natural Law, p. 314.
+
+September 14th. The Christian life is the only life that will ever be
+completed. Apart from Christ the life of man is a broken pillar, the race
+of men an unfinished pyramid. One by one in sight of Eternity all human
+Ideals fall short, one by one before the open grave all human hopes
+dissolve. Natural Law, p. 314.
+
+September 15th. I do not think we ourselves are aware how much our
+religious life is made up of phrases; how much of what we call Christian
+experience is only a dialect of the Churches, a mere religious
+phraseology with almost nothing behind it in what we really feel and
+know. Pax Vobiscum, p. 12.
+
+September 16th. The ceaseless chagrin of a self-centred life can be
+removed at once by learning Meekness and Lowliness of heart. He who
+learns them is forever proof against it. He lives henceforth a charmed
+life. Pax Vobiscum, p. 29.
+
+September 17th. Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to
+breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one
+another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic
+circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the
+taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible. Pax
+Vobiscum, p. 28.
+
+September 18th. There are people who go about the world looking out for
+slights, and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every
+turn--especially the imaginary ones. One has the same pity for such men
+as for the very poor. They are the morally illiterate. They have had no
+real education, for they have never learned how to live. Pax Vobiscum, p.
+31.
+
+September 19th. Christ never said much in mere words about the Christian
+graces. He lived them, He was them. Yet we do not merely copy Him. We
+learn His art by living with Him. Pax Vobiscum, p. 32.
+
+September 20th. Christ's invitation to the weary and heavy-laden is a
+call to begin life over again upon a new principle--upon His own
+principle. "Watch My way of doing things," He says. "Follow Me. Take life
+as I take it. Be meek and lowly, and you will find Rest." Pax Vobiscum,
+p. 32.
+
+September 21st. If a man could make himself humble to order, it might
+simplify matters, but we do not find that this happens. Hence we must all
+go through the mill. Hence death, death to the lower self, is the nearest
+gate and the quickest road to life. Pax Vobiscum, p. 35.
+
+September 22d. Whatever rest is provided by Christianity for the children
+of God, it is certainly never contemplated that it should supersede
+personal effort. And any rest which ministers to indifference is immoral
+and unreal--it makes parasites and not men. Natural Law, p. 335.
+
+September 23d. Just because God worketh in him, as the evidence and
+triumph of it, the true child of God works out his own salvation--works
+it out having really received it--not as a light thing, a superfluous
+labour, but with fear and trembling as a reasonable and indispensable
+service. Natural Law, p. 335.
+
+September 24th. Christianity, as Christ taught, is the truest philosophy
+of life ever spoken. But let us be quite sure when we speak of
+Christianity, that we mean Christ's Christianity. Pax Vobiscum, p. 47.
+
+September 25th. So far from ministering to growth, parasitism ministers
+to decay. So far from ministering to holiness, that is to wholeness,
+parasitism ministers to exactly the opposite. One by one the spiritual
+faculties droop and die, one by one from lack of exercise the muscles of
+the soul grow weak and flaccid, one by one the moral activities cease. So
+from him that hath not, is taken away that which he hath, and after a few
+years of parasitism there is nothing left to save. Natural Law, p. 336.
+
+September 26th. The natural life, not less than the eternal, is the gift
+of God. But life in either case is the beginning of growth and not the
+end of grace. To pause where we should begin, to retrograde where we
+should advance, to seek a mechanical security that we may cover inertia
+and find a wholesale salvation in which there is no personal
+sanctification--this is Parasitism. Natural Law, p. 336.
+
+September 27th. Could we investigate the spirit as a living organism, or
+study the soul of the backslider on principles of comparative anatomy, we
+should have a revelation of the organic effects of sin, even of the mere
+sin of carelessness as to growth and work, which must revolutionize our
+ideas of practical religion. There is no room for the doubt even that
+what goes on in the body does not with equal certainty take place in the
+spirit under the corresponding conditions. Natural Law, p. 345.
+
+September 28th. It is the beautiful work of Christianity everywhere to
+adjust the burden of life to those who bear it, and them to it. It has a
+perfectly miraculous gift of healing. Without doing any violence to human
+nature it sets it right with life, harmonizing it with all surrounding
+things, and restoring those who are jaded with the fatigue and dust of
+the world to a new grace of living. Pax Vobiscum, p. 46.
+
+September 29th. The penalty of backsliding is not something unreal and
+vague, some unknown quantity which may be measured out to us
+disproportionately, or which, perchance, since God is good, we may
+altogether evade. The consequences are already marked within the
+structure of the soul. So to speak, they are physiological. The thing
+effected by our in difference or by our indulgence is not the book of
+final judgment, but the present fabric of the soul. Natural Law, p. 346.
+
+September 30th. The punishment of degeneration is simply degeneration--
+the loss of functions, the decay of organs, the atrophy of the spiritual
+nature. It is well known that the recovery of the backslider is one of
+the hardest problems in spiritual work. To reinvigorate an old organ
+seems more difficult and hopeless than to develop a new one; and the
+backslider's terrible lot is to have to retrace with enfeebled feet each
+step of the way along which he strayed; to make up inch by inch the
+leeway he has lost, carrying with him a dead-weight of acquired
+reluctance, and scarce knowing whether to be stimulated or discouraged by
+the oppressive memory of the previous fall. Natural Law, p. 346.
+
+October 1st. He who abandons the personal search for truth, under
+whatever pretext, abandons truth. The very word truth, by becoming the
+limited possession of a guild, ceases to have any meaning; and faith,
+which can only be founded on truth, gives way to credulity, resting on
+mere opinion. Natural Law, p. 352.
+
+October 2d. It is more necessary for us to be active than to be orthodox.
+To be orthodox is what we wish to be, but we can only truly reach it by
+being honest, by being original, by seeing with our own eyes, by
+believing with our own heart. Natural Law. p. 364.
+
+October 3d. Better a little faith dearly won, better launched alone on
+the infinite bewilderment of Truth, than perish on the splendid plenty of
+the richest creeds. Such Doubt is no self-willed presumption. Nor, truly
+exercised, will it prove itself, as much doubt does, the synonym for
+sorrow. Natural Law, p. 365.
+
+October 4th. Christianity removes the attraction of the earth; and this
+is one way in which it diminishes men's burden. It makes them citizens of
+another world. Pax Vobiscum, p. 47.
+
+October 5th. Then the Christian experiences are our own making? In the
+same sense in which grapes are our own making, and no more. All fruits
+GROW--whether they grow in the soil or in the soul; whether they are the
+fruits of the wild grape or of the True Vine. No man can MAKE things
+grow. He can GET THEM TO GROW by arranging all the circumstances and
+fulfilling all the conditions. But the growing is done by God. Pax
+Vobiscum, p. 56.
+
+October 6th. Men may not know how fruits grow, but they do know that they
+cannot grow in five minutes. Some lives have not even a stalk on which
+fruits could hang, even if they did grow in five minutes. Some have never
+planted one sound seed of Joy in all their lives; and others who may have
+planted a germ or two have lived so little in sunshine that they never
+could come to maturity. Pax Vobiscum, p. 51.
+
+October 7th. There is no mystery about Happiness whatever. Put in the
+right ingredients and it must come out. He that abideth in Him will bring
+forth much fruit; and bringing forth much fruit is Happiness. The
+infallible receipt for Happiness, then, is to do good; and the infallible
+receipt for doing good is to abide in Christ. Pax Vobiscum, p. 56.
+
+October 8th. Spend the time you have spent in sighing for fruits in
+fulfilling the conditions of their growth. The fruits will come, must
+come. . . . About every other method of living the Christian life there
+is an uncertainty. About every other method of acquiring the Christian
+experiences there is a "perhaps." But in so far as this method is the way
+of nature, it cannot fail. Pax Vobiscum, p. 58.
+
+October 9th. The distinctions drawn between men are commonly based on the
+outward appearance of goodness or badness, on the ground of moral beauty
+or moral deformity--is this classification scientific? Or is there a
+deeper distinction between the Christian and the not-a-Christian as
+fundamental as that between the organic and the inorganic? Natural Law,
+p. 374.
+
+October 10th What is the essential difference between the Christian and
+the not-a-Christian, between the spiritual beauty and the moral beauty?
+It is the distinction between the Organic and the Inorganic. Moral beauty
+is the product of the natural man, spiritual beauty of the spiritual man.
+Natural Law, p. 380.
+
+October 11th. The first Law of biology is: That which is Mineral is
+Mineral; that which is Flesh is Flesh; that which is Spirit is Spirit.
+The mineral remains in the inorganic world until it is seized upon by a
+something called Life outside the inorganic world; the natural man
+remains the natural man, until a Spiritual Life from without the natural
+life seizes upon him, regenerates him, changes him into a spiritual man.
+Natural Law, p. 381.
+
+October 12th Suppose now it be granted for a moment that the character of
+the not-a-Christian is as beautiful as that of the Christian. This is
+simply to say that the crystal is as beautiful as the organism. One is
+quite entitled to hold this; but what he is not entitled to hold is that
+both in the same sense are living. "He that hath the Son hath Life, and
+he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life." Natural Law, p. 382.
+
+October 13th. Man is a moral animal, and can, and ought to, arrive at
+great natural beauty of character. But this is simply to obey the law of
+his nature--the law of his flesh; and no progress along that line can
+project him into the spiritual sphere. Natural Law, p. 382.
+
+October 14th. If any one choose to claim that the mineral beauty, the
+fleshly beauty, the natural moral beauty, is all he covets, he is
+entitled to his claim. To be good and true, pure and benevolent in the
+moral sphere, are high and, so far, legitimate objects in life. If he
+deliberately stop here, he is at liberty to do so. But what he is not
+entitled to do is to call himself a Christian, or to claim to discharge
+the functions peculiar to the Christian life. Natural Law, p. 382.
+
+October 15th. In dealing with a man of fine moral character, we are
+dealing with the highest achievement of the organic kingdom. But in
+dealing with a spiritual man we are dealing with THE LOWEST FORM OF LIFE
+IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. To contrast the two, therefore, and marvel that
+the one is apparently so little better than the other, is unscientific
+and unjust. Natural Law, p. 385.
+
+October 16th. The spiritual man is a mere unformed embryo, hidden as yet
+in his earthly chrysalis-case, while the natural man has the breeding and
+evolution of ages represented in his character. But what are the
+possibilities of this spiritual organism? What is yet to emerge from this
+chrysalis-case? The natural character finds its limits within the organic
+sphere. But who is to define the limits of the spiritual? Even now it is
+very beautiful. Even as an embryo it contains some prophecy of its future
+glory. But the point to mark is, that "it doth not yet appear what it
+shall be." Natural Law, p. 386.
+
+October 17th. The best test for Life is just LIVING. And living consists,
+as we have formerly seen, in corresponding with Environment. Those
+therefore who find within themselves, and regularly exercise, the
+faculties for corresponding with the Divine Environment, may be said to
+live the Spiritual Life. Natural Law, p. 390.
+
+October 18th. That the Spiritual Life, even in the embryonic organism,
+ought already to betray itself to others, is certainly what one would
+expect. Every organism has its own reaction upon Nature, and the reaction
+of the spiritual organism upon the community must be looked for. In the
+absence of any such reaction, in the absence of any token that it lived
+for a higher purpose, or that its real interests were those of the
+Kingdom to which it professed to belong, we should be entitled to
+question its being in that Kingdom. Natural Law, p. 390.
+
+October 19th. Man's place in Nature, or his position among the Kingdoms,
+is to be decided by the characteristic functions habitually discharged by
+him. Now, when the habits of certain individuals are closely observed,
+when the total effect of their life and work, with regard to the
+community, is gauged, . . . there ought to be no difficulty in deciding
+whether they are living for the Organic or for the Spiritual; in plainer
+language, for the world or for God. Natural Law, p. 391.
+
+October 20th. No matter what may be the moral uprightness of man's life,
+the honourableness of his career, or the orthodoxy of his creed, if he
+exercises the function of loving the world, that defines his world--he
+belongs to the Organic Kingdom. He cannot in that case belong to the
+higher Kingdom. "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not
+in him." After all, it is by the general bent of a man's life, by his
+heart-impulses and secret desires, his spontaneous actions and abiding
+motives, that his generation is declared. Natural Law, p. 393.
+
+October 21st. The imperious claim of a Kingdom upon its members is not
+peculiar to Christianity. It is the law in all departments of Nature that
+every organism must live for its Kingdom. And in defining living FOR the
+higher Kingdom as the condition of living in it, Christ enunciates a
+principle which all Nature has prepared us to expect. Natural Law, p.
+395.
+
+October 22d. Christianity marks the advent of what is simply a new
+Kingdom. Its distinctions from the Kingdom below it are fundamental. It
+demands from its members activities and responses of an altogether novel
+order. It is, in the conception of its Founder, a Kingdom for which all
+its adherents must henceforth exclusively live and work, and which opens
+its gates alone upon those who, having counted the cost, are prepared to
+follow it if need be to the death. The surrender Christ demanded was
+absolute. Every aspirant for membership must seek FIRST the Kingdom of
+God. Natural Law, p. 394.
+
+October 23d. Until even religious men see the uniqueness of Christ's
+society, until they acknowledge to the full extent its claim to be
+nothing less than a new Kingdom, they will continue the hopeless attempt
+to live for two Kingdoms at once. And hence the value of a more explicit
+Classification. For probably the most of the difficulties of trying to
+live the Christian life arise from attempting to half-live it. Natural
+Law, p. 396.
+
+October 24th. Two Kingdoms, at the present time, are known to Science--
+the Inorganic and the Organic. The spiritual life does not belong to the
+Inorganic Kingdom, because it lives. It does not belong to the Organic
+Kingdom, because it is endowed with a kind of Life infinitely removed
+from either the vegetable or animal. Where, then, shall it be classed? We
+are left without an alternative. There being no Kingdom known to Science
+which can contain it, we must construct one. Or, rather, we must include
+in the programme of Science a Kingdom already constructed, but the place
+of which in Science has not yet been recognized. That Kingdom is the
+KINGDOM OF GOD. Natural Law, p. 397.
+
+October 25th. The goal of the organisms of the Spiritual World is nothing
+less than this--to be "holy as He is holy, and pure as He is pure." And
+by the Law of Conformity to Type, their final perfection is secured. The
+inward nature must develop out according to its Type, until the
+consummation of oneness with God is reached. Natural Law, p. 403.
+
+October 26th. Christianity defines the highest conceivable future for
+mankind. It satisfies the Law of Continuity. It guarantees the necessary
+conditions for carrying on the organism successfully, from stage to
+stage. It provides against the tendency to Degeneration. And finally,
+instead of limiting the yearning hope of final perfection to the
+organisms of a future age--an age so remote that the hope for thousands
+of years must still be hopeless--instead of inflicting this cruelty on
+intelligences mature enough to know perfection and earnest enough to wish
+it, Christianity puts the prize within immediate reach of man. Natural
+Law, p. 404.
+
+October 27th. No worse fate can befall a man in this world than to live
+and grow old alone, unloving and unloved. To be lost is to live in an
+unregenerate condition, loveless and unloved; and to be saved is to love;
+he that dwelleth in love dwelleth already in God. For God is Love. The
+Greatest Thing in the World, p. 59.
+
+October 28th. "Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love
+vaunteth not itself." Get these ingredients into your life. Then
+everything that you do is eternal. It is worth doing. It is worth giving
+time to. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 60.
+
+October 29th. The final test of religion at that great Day is not
+religiousness, but Love; not what I have done, not what I have believed,
+not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities
+of life. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 62.
+
+October 30th. The words which all of us shall one Day hear sound not of
+theology but of life, not of churches and saints, but of the hungry and
+the poor, not of creeds and doctrines, but of shelter and clothing, not
+of Bibles and prayer-books, but of cups of cold water in the name of
+Christ. The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 63.
+
+October 31st. The world moves. And each day, each hour, demands a further
+motion and re-adjustment for the soul. A telescope in an observatory
+follows a star by clockwork, but the clockwork of the soul is called the
+Will. Hence, while the soul in passivity reflects the Image of the Lord,
+the Will in intense activity holds the mirror in position lest the
+drifting motion of the world bear it beyond the line of vision. To
+"follow Christ" is largely to keep the soul in such position as will
+allow for the motion of the earth. And this calculated counteracting of
+the movements of a world, this holding of the mirror exactly opposite to
+the Mirrored, this steadying of the faculties unerringly, through cloud
+and earthquake; fire and sword, is the stupendous cooperating labour of
+the Will. The Changed Life, p. 60.
+
+November 1st. All around us Christians are wearing themselves out in
+trying to be better. The amount of spiritual longing in the world--in the
+hearts of unnumbered thousands of men and women in whom we should never
+suspect it; among the wise and thoughtful; among the young and gay, who
+seldom assuage and never betray their thirst--this is one of the most
+wonderful and touching facts of life. It is not more heat that is needed,
+but more light; not more force, but a wiser direction to be given to very
+real energies already there. Pax Vobiscum, p. 14.
+
+November 2d. Men sigh for the wings of a dove, that they may fly away and
+be at Rest. But flying away will not help us. "The Kingdom of God is
+WITHIN YOU." We aspire to the top to look for Rest; it lies at the
+bottom. Water rests only when it gets to the lowest place. So do men.
+Hence, be lowly. Pax Vobiscum, p. 30.
+
+November 3d. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, joy.
+Righteousness, of course, is just doing what is right. Any boy who does
+what is right has the kingdom of God within him. Any boy who, instead of
+being quarrelsome, lives at peace with the other boys, has the kingdom of
+God within him. Any boy whose heart is filled with joy because he does
+what is right, has the kingdom of God within him. The kingdom of God is
+not going to religious meetings, and hearing strange religious
+experiences: the kingdom of God is doing what is right--living at peace
+with all men, being filled with joy in the Holy Ghost. First, p. 11.
+
+November 4th. The man who has no opinion of himself at all can never be
+hurt if others do not acknowledge him. Hence, be meek. He who is without
+expectation cannot fret if nothing comes to him. It is self-evident that
+these things are so. The lowly man and the meek man are really above all
+other men, above all other things. Pax Vobiscum, p. 30.
+
+November 5th. Keep religion in its place, and it will take you straight
+through life, and straight to your Father in heaven when life is over.
+But if you do not put it in its place, you may just as well have nothing
+to do with it. Religion out of its place in a human life is the most
+miserable thing in the world. There is nothing that requires so much to
+be kept in its place as religion, and its place is what? second? third?
+"First." Boys, carry that home with you today--FIRST the kingdom of God.
+Make it so that it will be natural to you to think about that the very
+first thing. First, pp. 15, 16.
+
+November 6th. The change we have been striving after is not to be
+produced by any more striving after. It is to be wrought upon us by the
+moulding of hands beyond our own. As the branch ascends, and the bud
+bursts, and the fruit reddens under the cooperation of influences from
+the outside air, so man rises to the higher stature under invisible
+pressures from without. The Changed Life, p. 21.
+
+November 7th. Every man's character remains as it is, or continues in the
+direction in which it is going, until it is compelled by IMPRESSED FORCES
+to change that state. Our failure has been the failure to put ourselves
+in the way of the impressed forces. There is a clay, and there is a
+Potter; we have tried to get the clay to mould the clay. The Changed
+Life, p. 21.
+
+November 8th. Character is a unity, and all the virtues must advance
+together to make the perfect man. This method of sanctification,
+nevertheless, is in the true direction. It is only in the details of
+execution that it fails. The Changed Life, p. 14.
+
+November 9th. We all reflecting as a mirror the character of Christ are
+transformed into the same Image from character to character--from a poor
+character to a better one, from a better one to one a little better
+still, from that to one still more complete, until by slow degrees the
+Perfect Image is attained. Here the solution of the problem of
+sanctification is compressed into a sentence: Reflect the character of
+Christ, and you will become like Christ. The Changed Life, p. 24.
+
+November 10th. There are some men and some women in whose company we are
+always at our best. While with them we cannot think mean thoughts or
+speak ungenerous words. Their mere presence is elevation, purification,
+sanctity. All the best stops in our nature are drawn out by their
+intercourse, and we find a music in our souls that was never there
+before. The Changed Life, p. 33.
+
+November 11th. Take such a sentence as this: African explorers are
+subject to fevers which cause restlessness and delirium. Note the
+expression, "cause restlessness." RESTLESSNESS HAS A CAUSE. Clearly,
+then, any one who wished to get rid of restlessness would proceed at once
+to deal with the cause. Pax Vobiscum, p. 20.
+
+November 12th. What Christian experience wants is THREAD, a vertebral
+column, method. It is impossible to believe that there is no remedy for
+its unevenness and dishevelment, or that the remedy is a secret. The
+idea, also, that some few men, by happy chance or happier temperament,
+have been given the secret--as if there were some sort of knack or trick
+of it--is wholly incredible. Religion must ripen fruit for every
+temperament; and the way even into its highest heights must be by a
+gateway through which the peoples of the world may pass. Pax Vobiscum, p.
+15.
+
+November 13th. Nothing that happens in the world happens by chance. God
+is a God of order. Everything is arranged upon definite principles, and
+never at random. The world, even the religious world, is governed by law.
+Character is governed by law. Happiness is governed by law. The Christian
+experiences are governed by law. Pax Vobiscum, p. 17.
+
+November 14th. We ARE CHANGED, as the Old Version has it--we do not
+change ourselves. No man can change himself. Throughout the New Testament
+you will find that wherever these moral and spiritual transformations are
+described the verbs are in the passive. Presently it will be pointed out
+that there is a rationale in this; but meantime do not toss these words
+aside as if this passivity denied all human effort or ignored
+intelligible law. What is implied for the soul here is no more than is
+everywhere claimed for the body. The Changed Life, p. 19.
+
+November 15th. Rain and snow do drop from the air, but not without a long
+previous history. They are the mature effects of former causes. Equally
+so are Rest, and Peace, and Joy. They, too, have each a previous history.
+Storms and winds and calms are not accidents, but are brought about by
+antecedent circumstances. Rest and Peace are but calms in man's inward
+nature, and arise through causes as definite and as inevitable. Pax
+Vobiscum, p. 18.
+
+November 16th. Few men know how to live. We grow up at random, carrying
+into mature life the merely animal methods and motives which we had as
+little children. And it does not occur to us that all this must be
+changed; that much of it must be reversed; that life is the finest of the
+Fine Arts; that it has to be learned with life-long patience, and that
+the years of our pilgrimage are all too short to master it triumphantly.
+Pax Vobiscum, p. 31.
+
+November 17th. Christ's life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives
+that was ever lived: Tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves
+breaking over it all the time till the worn body was laid in the grave.
+But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there.
+At any moment you might have gone to Him and found Rest. Pax Vobiscum, p.
+35.
+
+November 18th. The creation of a new heart, the renewing of a right
+spirit is an omnipotent work of God. Leave it to the Creator. "He which
+hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto that day." The Changed
+Life, p. 57.
+
+November 19th. To become like Christ is the only thing in the world worth
+caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly, and
+all lower achievement vain. Those only who make this quest the supreme
+desire and passion of their lives can even begin to hope to reach it. The
+Changed Life, p. 57.
+
+November 20th. A religion of effortless adoration may be a religion for
+an angel but never for a man. Not in the contemplative, but in the
+active, lies true hope; not in rapture, but in reality, lies true life;
+not in the realm of ideals, but among tangible things, is man's
+sanctification wrought. The Changed Life, p. 58.
+
+November 21st. Nothing ever for a moment broke the serenity of Christ's
+life on earth. Misfortune could not reach Him; He had no fortune. Food,
+raiment, money--fountain-heads of half the world's weariness--He simply
+did not care for; they played no part in His life; He "took no thought"
+for them. It was impossible to affect Him by lowering His reputation; He
+had already made Himself of no reputation. He was dumb before insult.
+When He was reviled, He reviled not again. In fact, there was nothing
+that the world could do to Him that could ruffle the surface of His
+spirit. Pax Vobiscum, p. 36.
+
+November 22d. Life is the cradle of eternity. As the man is to the animal
+in the slowness of his evolution, so is the spiritual man to the natural
+man. Foundations which have to bear the weight of an eternal life must be
+surely laid. Character is to wear forever; who will wonder or grudge that
+it cannot be developed in a day? The Changed Life, p. 55.
+
+November 23d. To await the growing of a soul is an almost Divine act of
+faith. How pardonable, surely, the impatience of deformity with itself,
+of a consciously despicable character standing before Christ, wondering,
+yearning, hungering to be like that? Yet must one trust the process
+fearlessly, and without misgiving. "The Lord the Spirit" will do His
+part. The tempting expedient is, in haste for abrupt or visible progress,
+to try some method less spiritual, or to defeat the end by watching for
+effects instead of keeping the eye on the Cause. The Changed Life, p. 56.
+
+November 24th. The Image of Christ that is forming within us--that is
+life's one charge. Let every project stand aside for that. "Till Christ
+be formed," no man's work is finished, no religion crowned, no life has
+fulfilled its end. Is the infinite task begun? When, how, are we to be
+different? Time cannot change men. Death cannot change men. Christ can.
+Wherefore PUT ON CHRIST. The Changed Life, p. 62.
+
+November 25th. Christ saw that men took life painfully. To some it was a
+weariness, to others a failure, to many a tragedy, to all a struggle and
+a pain. How to carry this burden of life had been the whole world's
+problem. It is still the whole world's problem. And here is Christ's
+solution. "Carry it as I do. Take life as I take it. Look at it from My
+point of view. Interpret it upon My principles. Take My yoke and learn of
+Me, and you will find it easy. For My yoke is easy, works easily, sits
+right upon the shoulders, and THEREFORE My burden is light." Pax
+Vobiscum, p. 44.
+
+November 26th. There is a disease called "touchiness"--a disease which,
+in spite of its innocent name, is one of the gravest sources of
+restlessness in the world. Touchiness, when it becomes chronic, is a
+morbid condition of the inward disposition. It is self-love inflamed to
+the acute point. . . The cure is to shift the yoke to some other place;
+to let men and things touch us through some new and perhaps as yet unused
+part of our nature; to become meek and lowly in heart while the old
+nature is becoming numb from want of use. Pax Vobiscum, pp. 45, 46.
+
+November 27th. Christ's yoke is simply His secret for the alleviation of
+human life, His prescription for the best and happiest method of living.
+Men harness themselves to the work and stress of the world in clumsy
+and unnatural ways. The harness they put on is antiquated. A rough,
+ill-fitted collar at the best, they make its strain and friction past
+enduring, by placing it where the neck is most sensitive; and by mere
+continuous irritation this sensitiveness increases until the whole nature
+is quick and sore. Pax Vobiscum, p. 45.
+
+November 28th. No one can get Joy by merely asking for it. It is one of
+the ripest fruits of the Christian life, and, like all fruits, must be
+grown. Pax Vobiscum, p. 50.
+
+November 29th Christ is the source of Joy to men in the sense in which He
+is the source of Rest. His people share His life, and therefore share its
+consequences, and one of these is Joy. His method of living is one that
+in the nature of things produces Joy. When He spoke of His Joy remaining
+with us He meant in part that the causes which produced it should
+continue to act. His followers, that is to say, by repeating His life
+would experience its accompaniments. His Joy, His kind of Joy, would
+remain with them. Pax Vobiscum, p. 54.
+
+November 30th. Think of it, the past is not only focussed there, in a
+man's soul, it IS there. How could it be reflected from there if it were
+not there? All things that he has ever seen, known, felt, believed of the
+surrounding world are now within him, have become part of him, in part
+are him--he has been changed into their image. He may deny it, he may
+resent it, but they are there. They do not adhere to him, they are
+transfused through him. He cannot alter or rub them out. They are not in
+his memory, they are in HIM. His soul is as they have filled it, made it,
+left it. The Changed Life, p. 27.
+
+December 1st. Temper is significant, not in what it is alone but in what
+it reveals. . . . It is a test for love, a symptom, a revelation of an
+unloving nature at bottom. It is the intermittent fever which bespeaks
+unintermittent disease within; the occasional bubble escaping to the
+surface which betrays some rottenness underneath; a sample of the most
+hidden products of the soul dropped involuntarily when off one's guard;
+IN A WORD, the lightning form of a hundred hideous and un-Christian sins.
+The Greatest Thing in the World, p. 34.
+
+December 2d. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the
+moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the
+moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As memory scans
+the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life there
+leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do
+unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to
+speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life. The
+Greatest Thing in the World, p. 60.
+
+December 3d. If events change men, much more persons. No man can meet
+another on the street without making some mark upon him. We say we
+exchange words when we meet; what we exchange is souls. And when
+intercourse is very close and very frequent, so complete is this exchange
+that recognizable bits of the one soul begin to show in the other's
+nature, and the second is conscious of a similar and growing debt to the
+first. The Changed Life, p. 30.
+
+December 4th. In the natural world we absorb heat, breathe air, draw on
+Environment all but automatically for meat and drink, for the nourishment
+of the senses, for mental stimulus, for all that, penetrating us from
+without, can prolong, enrich, and elevate life. But in the spiritual
+world we have all this to learn. We are new creatures, and even the bare
+living has to be acquired. Natural Law, p. 267.
+
+December 5th. The great point in learning to live the spiritual life is
+to live naturally. As closely as possible we must follow the broad, clear
+lines of the natural life. And there are three things especially which it
+is necessary for us to keep continually in view. The first is that the
+organism contains within itself only one-half of what is essential to
+life; the second is that the other half is contained in the Environment;
+the third, that the condition of receptivity is simple union between the
+organism and the Environment. Natural Law, p. 268.
+
+December 6th. To say that the organism contains within itself only
+one-half of what is essential to life, is to repeat the evangelical
+confession, so worn and yet so true to universal experience, of the utter
+helplessness of man. Natural Law, p. 268.
+
+December 7th. Who has not come to the conclusion that he is but a part, a
+fraction of some larger whole? Who does not miss at every turn of his
+life an absent God? That man is but a part, he knows, for there is room
+in him for more. That God is the other part, he feels, because at times
+He satisfies his need. Who does not tremble often under that sicklier
+symptom of his incompleteness, his want of spiritual energy, his
+helplessness with sin? But now he understands both--the void in his life,
+the powerlessness of his will. He understands that, like all other
+energy, spiritual power is contained in Environment. He finds here at
+last the true root of all human frailty, emptiness, nothingness, sin.
+This is why "without Me ye can do nothing." Powerless is the normal state
+not only of this but of every organism--of every organism apart from its
+Environment. Natural Law, p. 268.
+
+December 8th. To seize continuously the opportunity of more and more
+perfect adjustment to better and higher conditions, to balance some
+inward evil with some purer influence acting from without, in a word to
+make our Environment at the same time that it is making us--these are the
+secrets of a well-ordered and successful life. Natural Law, p. 256.
+
+December 9th. In the spiritual world the subtle influences which form and
+transform the soul are Heredity and Environment. And here especially,
+where all is invisible, where much that we feel to be real is yet so
+ill-defined, it becomes of vital practical moment to clarify the
+atmosphere as far as possible with conceptions borrowed from the natural
+life. Natural Law, p. 256.
+
+December 10th. These lower correspondences are in their nature unfitted
+for an Eternal Life. Even if they were perfect in their relation to their
+Environment, they would still not be Eternal. However opposed,
+apparently, to the scientific definition of Eternal Life, it is yet true
+that perfect correspondence with Environment is not Eternal Life. . . .
+An Eternal Life demands an Eternal Environment. Natural Law, p. 245.
+
+December 11th. On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really
+rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole
+of historical Christianity--the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Natural
+Law, p. 234.
+
+December 12th. The soul which has no correspondence with the spiritual
+environment is spiritually dead. It may be that it never possessed . . .
+the spiritual ear, or a heart which throbbed in response to the love of
+God. If so, having never lived, it cannot be said to have died. But not
+to have these correspondences is to be in the state of Death. To the
+spiritual world, to the Divine Environment, it is dead--as a stone which
+has never lived is dead to the environment of the organic world. Natural
+Law, p. 177.
+
+December 13th. The humanity of what is called "sudden conversion" has
+never been insisted on as it deserves. . . . While growth is a slow and
+gradual process, the change from Death to Life, alike in the natural and
+spiritual spheres, is the work of the moment. Whatever the conscious hour
+of the second birth may be--in the case of an adult it is probably
+defined by the first real victory over sin--it is certain that on
+biological principles the real turning-point is literally a moment.
+Natural Law, p. 184.
+
+December 14th. Christ says we must hate life. Now, this does not apply to
+all life. It is "life in this world" that is to be hated. For life in
+this world implies conformity to this world. It may not mean pursuing
+worldly pleasures, or mixing with worldly sets; but a subtler thing than
+that--a silent deference to worldly opinion; an almost unconscious
+lowering of religious tone to the level of the worldly-religious world
+around; a subdued resistance to the soul's delicate promptings to greater
+consecration, out of deference to "breadth" or fear of ridicule. These,
+and such things, are what Christ tells us we must hate. For these things
+are of the very essence of worldliness. "If any man love the world," even
+in this sense, "the love of the Father is not in him." Natural Law, p.
+197.
+
+December 15th. To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal
+Unknowable, would be everlasting existence; to correspond with "the true
+God and Jesus Christ," is Eternal Life. The quality of the Eternal Life
+alone makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon. Even the
+brief span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years
+in sorrow. Natural Law, p. 220.
+
+December 16th. The relation between the spiritual man and his Environment
+is, in theological language, a filial relation. With the new Spirit, the
+filial correspondence, he knows the Father--and this is Life Eternal.
+This is not only the real relation, but the only possible relation:
+"Neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever
+the Son will reveal Him." And this on purely natural grounds. Natural
+Law, p. 229.
+
+December 17th. Communion with God--can it be demonstrated in terms of
+Science that this is a correspondence which will never break? We do not
+appeal to Science for such a testimony. We have asked for its conception
+of an Eternal Life; and we have received for answer that Eternal Life
+would consist in a correspondence which should never cease, with an
+Environment which should never pass away. And yet what would Science
+demand of a perfect correspondence that is not met by this, THE KNOWING
+OF GOD? There is no other correspondence which could satisfy one at least
+of the conditions. Not one could be named which would not bear on the
+face of it the mark and pledge of its mortality. But this, to know God,
+stands alone. Natural Law, p. 220.
+
+December 18th. The misgiving which will creep sometimes over the
+brightest faith has already received its expression and its rebuke: "Who
+shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
+distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"
+Shall these "changes in the physical state of the environment" which
+threaten death to the natural man, destroy the spiritual? Shall death, or
+life, or angels, or principalities, or powers, arrest or tamper with his
+eternal correspondences? "Nay, in all these things we are more than
+conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither
+death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
+present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other
+creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
+Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom. viii, 35-39. Natural Law, p. 230.
+
+December 19th. "We find that man, or the spiritual man, is equipped with
+two sets of correspondences." One set possesses the quality of
+everlastingness, the other is temporal. But unless these are separated by
+some means the temporal will continue to impair and hinder the eternal.
+The final preparation, therefore, for the inheriting of Eternal Life must
+consist in the abandonment of the non-eternal elements. These must be
+unloosed and dissociated from the higher elements. And this is effected
+by a closing catastrophe--Death. Natural Law, p. 248.
+
+December 20th. Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the
+organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are
+still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly
+understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to
+each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the
+old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at
+another to counter act one another, understands the rationale of personal
+development. Natural Law, p. 255.
+
+December 21st. It is the Law of Influence that WE BECOME LIKE THOSE WHOM
+WE HABITUALLY ADMIRE. Through all the range of literature, of history,
+and biography this law presides. Men are all mosaics of other men. There
+was a savour of David about Jonathan and a savour of Jonathan about
+David. Jean Valjean, in the masterpiece of Victor Hugo, is Bishop
+Bienvenu risen from the dead. Metempsychosis is a fact. The Changed Life,
+p. 31.
+
+December 22d. Can we shut our eyes to the fact that the religious
+opinions of mankind are in a state of flux? And when we regard the
+uncertainty of current beliefs, the war of creeds, the havoc of
+inevitable as well as of idle doubt, the reluctant abandonment of early
+faith by those who would cherish it longer if they could, is it not plain
+that the one thing thinking men are waiting for is the introduction of
+Law among the Phenomena of the Spiritual World? When that comes we shall
+offer to such men a truly scientific theology. And the Reign of Law will
+transform the whole Spiritual World as it has already transformed the
+Natural World. Natural Law, Preface, p. ix.
+
+December 23d. We have Truth in Nature as it came from God. And it has to
+be read with the same unbiassed mind, the same open eye, the same faith,
+and the same reverence as all other Revelation. All that is found there,
+whatever its place in Theology, whatever its orthodoxy or heterodoxy,
+whatever its narrowness or its breadth, we are bound to accept as
+Doctrine from which on the lines of Science there is no escape. Natural
+Law, Preface, p. xi.
+
+December 24th. In Nature generally, we come upon new Laws as we pass from
+lower to higher kingdoms, the old still remaining in force, the newer
+Laws which one would expect to meet in the Spiritual World would so
+transcend and overwhelm the older as to make the analogy or identity,
+even if traced, of no practical use. The new Laws would represent
+operations and energies so different, and so much more elevated, that
+they would afford the true keys to the Spiritual World. Natural Law, p.
+47.
+
+December 25th. The visible is the ladder up to the invisible; the
+temporal is but the scaffolding of the eternal. And when the last
+immaterial souls have climbed through this material to God, the
+scaffolding shall be taken down, and the earth dissolved with fervent
+heat--not because it was base, but because its work is done. Natural Law,
+p. 57.
+
+December 26th. The natural man belongs essentially to this present order
+of things. He is endowed simply with a high quality of the natural animal
+Life. But it is Life of so poor a quality that it is not Life at all. He
+that hath not the Son hath not Life; but he that hath the Son hath Life--
+a new and distinct and supernatural endowment. He is not of this world.
+He is of the timeless state, of Eternity. IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT HE
+SHALL BE. Natural Law, p. 82.
+
+December 27th. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which
+strikes the simplest observer. Long before the word Evolution was coined
+Christ applied it in this very connection--"First the blade, then the
+ear, then the full corn in the ear." It is well known also to those who
+study the parables of Nature that there is an ascending scale of slowness
+as we rise in the scale of Life. Growth is most gradual in the highest
+forms. Man attains his maturity after a score of years; the monad
+completes its humble cycle in a day. What wonder if development be tardy
+in the Creature of Eternity? A Christian's sun has sometimes set, and a
+critical world has seen as yet no corn in the ear. As yet? "As yet," in
+this long Life, has not begun. Grant him the years proportionate to his
+place in the scale of Life. "The time of harvest is NOT YET." Natural
+Law, p. 92.
+
+December 28th. Salvation is a definite process. If a man refuse to submit
+himself to that process, clearly he cannot have the benefits of it. "As
+many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God." He
+does not avail himself of this power. It may be mere carelessness or
+apathy. Nevertheless the neglect is fatal. He cannot escape because he
+will not. Natural Law, p. 109.
+
+December 29th. The end of Salvation is perfection, the Christ-like mind,
+character, and life. Morality is on the way to this perfection; it may go
+a considerable distance toward it, but it can never reach it. Only Life
+can do that. . . . Morality can never reach perfection; Life MUST. For
+the Life must develop out according to its type; and being a germ of the
+Christ-life, it must unfold into A CHRIST. Natural Law, p. 138.
+
+December 30th. Perfect life is not merely the possessing of perfect
+functions, but of perfect functions perfectly adjusted to each other, and
+all conspiring to a single result, the perfect working of the whole
+organism. It is not said that the character will develop in all its
+fulness in this life. That were a time too short for an Evolution so
+magnificent. In this world only the cornless ear is seen: sometimes only
+the small yet still prophetic blade. Natural Law, p. 129.
+
+December 31st. The immortal soul must give itself to something that is
+immortal. And the only immortal things are these: "Now abideth faith,
+hope, love, but the greatest of these is love." Some think the time may
+come when two of these three things will also pass away--faith into
+sight, hope into fruition. Paul does not say so. We know but little now
+about the conditions of the life that is to come. But what is certain is
+that Love must last. God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet therefore that
+everlasting gift. The Greatest Thing in the World, pp. 54, 55.
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