anions
and friends; sustained, guided, helped by forces that we see not.

To see the future as clearly as we see the past, what does it require?

Saint Paul tells us that "spiritual things are spiritually discerned."
The future is visible to the spiritual sight. No one doubts but that the
future is known to God, for it is He who creates and controls it. And
man is the child of God, and his true life is in co-operating with God
in every form of the higher activity. So far as he may co-operate with
God he becomes, himself, a creative force; making, shaping, and
determining this future, and thus, to an increasing degree, he becomes
aware of it, or sees it, before it is realized on the outward plane. The
day is not, indeed, distant, when humanity will live far less blindly
than now. As man develops his psychic self and lives the life of the
spirit,--the life of intellect and thought and purpose and prayer,
rather than the life of the senses, he will perceive his future. To just
the degree that one lives in the energies which are immortal does he
perceive the future. Knowledge penetrates into the unknown and the
unseen. Leverrier postulated Neptune long before his "long-distance"
theory was verified. The intelligent recognition of the unseen forces
and unseen presences, the intelligent conception of the manner in which
these unseen forces are working out the problems of destiny, alone
enables one to consciously combine with them; to enter into the
processes of evolution as an intelligent factor, and thus redeem his
individual life to harmony, beauty, and happiness.

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[Sidenote: A Determining Question.]

The question confronts one as a very determining problem in life,--can
man control his circumstances? To go deeper still, can he create them?
Or is he the product of his environment? Is every life just that which
it is made? Or does there work, under all our human will and endeavor, a
force resistless as gravitation and as constant as attraction? A writer,
considering this subject, thus expresses his own convictions:--

"I believe that every life is the exact and necessary outcome of
its _environment_, and that there is in reality not one particle of
actual freedom in this respect from the cradle to the grave. I
cannot here go into any extended proof of my position. The
syllogism may be stated as follows:

"Every phenomenon is the necessary result o