Holland notes, sounds and motions transmit themselves "under
conditions which transform our whole idea of what space or time may
mean." In the realm of present life the same assertion may be made. Who
can contemplate wireless telegraphy without having opened to him a range
of activities and conditions undreamed of heretofore? "We become sure,"
continues Canon Holland, "that both above and below our normal
consciousness we are in touch with mysteries that travel far, and that
we lie open to spiritual acts done unto us from a far distance, that we
assimilate intimations and intuitions that reach us by inexplicable
channels.

"This world of spirit powers and activities has been opened afresh; and
now even physical science is compelled to recognize the evidence for it,
and a new psychological language is coming into being to describe its
phenomena. We are only slowly recovering our hold upon this life of
mystic intuition, of exalted spiritual communications; we are only
beginning to recognize the abnormal and exceptional spiritual condition
with which Saint Paul was familiar, when, whether in the body or out of
it, he could not say,--God only knows,--he was transported to the third
Heaven and heard unutterable things."

This remarkable sermon is an initiation of a new era of religious
teaching. The light is breaking and the full illumination is only a
question of time.

Life is exalted in its purpose and refined in its quality by holding the
perpetual consciousness of the two worlds in which we dwell; by the
constant realization that

"The spirit world around this world of sense
Floats like an atmosphere...."

This atmosphere is all peopled, and it is magnetic with intelligence.
Every spirit-call for aid, for guidance, for support, is answered. If a
man fall on a crowded street in the city, how instantaneous is the aid
that cares for him. He is lifted and conveyed tenderly to his home, or
to a hospital, or to some temporary resting-place if the ill be but a
slight one. Strangers or friends, it matters not, rush to his rescue.
This, which occurs in the tangible and visible world, is but a feeble
illustration of the more profound tenderness, the clearer
understanding, the more potent aid that is given instantly to man from
the unseen helpers and friends in this spirit world which floats like an
atmosphere around this world of sense. It is all and equally the help of
God; it is the Divine answer to the call; but the