How unreal seems the existence of the inner life! How vain our intent
to catch its meaning, and portray its deepest lessons, and yet, it is
the reality. It forms the center around which all external life
revolves, from which all outward being receives its vitality and
assurance of existence. The passive soul heeds not the ever-recurring
changes which its very continued life indicates, and will, when
unveiled by the transforming hand of death, wonder at its wealth of
life. The conscious being, ever alert, notes the changes and the
indications of ever-progressing life with delight, and awe, and a
profound recognition of the law of its being which sets the star of its
existence higher and higher in the heavens, and lures it on for its own
perfection even unto the perfect day. To such a soul there is little
peace, or rest by the way; but it may finally learn a godlike heroism
and patience which will enable it to trace its steps, and see in all
its life's experiences a sequence which is divine and beneficent.
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Power is silent; power does not fume and bluster. It holds firmly and
steadily on its way, and wins by force of its resistless and relentless
sway.