er trust in the Giver
of all Good was inspired. The beautiful lines of Whittier came to
memory:--

"I know not what the future hath
Of marvel and surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies."

Thus might one remember and dream while flying on under the New Year's
skies, and realize anew that any trend of thought is inevitably
creating its future. Auto-suggestion is the most potent of forces, and
the assertion that "as a man thinketh so is he," is literally true. As
he thinketh, so he _shall_ be, also; and he can thus think himself into
new conditions and attract to himself new forces. He has the power to
keep his feet set in this upward pathway, and so sure as is the destiny
of the stars and the constellations on their course through the heavenly
spaces, so sure is his own arrival at the point toward which he is
moving, and his achievement of the supreme end he holds steadfastly in
view. Thus life will be to him no period of mere "quicksand years," but,
instead, a series of advancing realization and beautiful states. Ideals
may be swiftly realized by the accelerated energy of concentration and
prayer, and the secret of transformation from defeat and denial to the
perfect hour of triumph and happiness lies, for each one, within his own
keeping.

"One's self must never give way--that is the final substance."

* * * * *

[Sidenote: The Divine Panorama.]

"Do we not all wish that we could live our lives over again in the light
of our present experience?" remarked Rev. Doctor Charles Gordon Ames;
"but this is just what God lets us do."

Here, in a word, was that divine panorama of the completeness of life
revealed; the part of it lived in this present phase of experience being
infinitely less in its relation, compared to the whole, than is one day
in its relation to the longest life possible on earth. One day out of
seventy, eighty, ninety years, would not seem so much; yet this entire
period of even the longest life on earth, in its relative proportion to
the life of all the eternities, is far less than is one day out of a
lifetime in its proportional relation to Immortality. This spiritual
panorama suggests its infinite energy of hope; it reinforces courage; it
reveals in the most impressive manner the significance of living. For it
is the tendency which always determines the result.

There can hardly be a question but that distrust of conditions i