And he felt himself to be a free man,--free of all earthly confusion and worry--free to recommence another cycle of nobler work in a higher and wider sphere of action, And he argued with himself thus:-- "A man is born into this world without his own knowledge or consent.

Yet he finds himself--also without his own knowledge or consent--surrounded by natural beauty and perfect order--he finds nothing in the planet which can be accounted valueless--he learns that even a grain of dust has its appointed use, and that not a sparrow shall fall to the ground without 'Our Father.' Everything is ready to his hand to minister to his reasonable wants--and it is only when he misinterprets the mystic meaning of life, and puts God aside as an 'unknown quantity,' that things go wrong.

His mission is that of progress and advancement--but not progress and advancement in base material needs and pleasures,--the progress and advancement required of him is primarily spiritual.

For the spiritual, or Mind, is the only Real.

Matter is merely the husk in which the seed of Spirit is enclosed--and Man's mistake is always that he attaches himself to the perishable husk instead of the ever germinating seed.