e and wisdom?
With God is no respect of persons. Why should we seek these things
second hand? Why should we thus stultify our own innate powers? Why
should we not go direct to the Infinite Source itself? "If any man lack
wisdom let him ask of God." "Before they call I will answer, and while
they are yet speaking, I will hear."

When we thus go directly to the Infinite Source itself we are no longer
slaves to personalities, institutions, or books. We should always keep
ourselves open to suggestions of truth from these agencies. We should
always regard them as agencies, however, and never as sources. We should
never recognize them as masters, but simply as teachers. With Browning,
we must recognize the great fact that--

"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness."

There is no more important injunction in all the world, nor one with a
deeper interior meaning, than "To thine own self be true." In other
words, be true to your own soul, for it is through your own soul that the
voice of God speaks to you. This is the interior guide. This is the
light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. This is
conscience. This is intuition. This is the voice of the higher self,
the voice of the soul, the voice of God. "Thou shalt hear a voice behind
thee, saying: This is the way, walk ye in it."

When Moses was on the mountain it was after the various physical
commotions and manifestations that he heard the "still, small voice," the
voice of his own soul, through which the Infinite God was speaking. If
we will but follow this voice of intuition, it will speak ever more
clearly and more plainly, until by and by it will be absolute and
unerring in its guidance. The great trouble with us is that we do not
listen to and do not follow this voice within our own souls, and so we
become as a house divided against itself. We are pulled this way and
that, and we are never _certain_ of anything. I have a friend who
listens so carefully to this inner voice, who, in other words, always
acts so quickly and so fully in accordance with his intuitions, and whose
life as a consequence is so absolutely guided by them, that he always
does the right thing at the right time and in the right way. He always
knows when to act and how to act, and he is never in the condition of a
house divided against