er they
are simply co-operating.

_The secret of the highest power is simply the uniting of the outer
agencies of expression with the Power that works from within_. Are you
a painter? Then in the degree that you open yourself to the power of
the forces within will you become great instead of mediocre. You can
never put into permanent form inspirations higher than those that come
through your own soul. In order for the higher inspirations to come
through it, you must open your soul, you must open it fully to the
Supreme Source of all inspiration. Are you an orator? In the degree
that you come into harmony and work in conjunction with the higher
powers that will speak through you will you have the real power of
moulding and of moving men. If you use merely your physical agents,
you will be simply a demagogue. If you open yourself so that the voice
of God can speak through and use your physical agents, you will become
a great and true orator, great and true in just the degree that you so
open yourself.

Are you a singer? Then open yourself and let the God within pour forth
in the spirit of song. You will find it a thousand times easier than
all your long and studied practice without this, and other things being
equal, there will come to you a power of song so enchanting and so
enrapturing that its influence upon all who hear will be irresistible.

When my cabin or tent has been pitched during the summer on the edge or
in the midst of a forest, I have sometimes lain awake on my cot in the
early morning, just as the day was beginning to break. Silence at
first. Then an intermittent chirp here and there. And as the
unfolding tints of the dawn became faintly perceptible, these grew more
and more frequent, until by and by the whole forest seemed to burst
forth in one grand chorus of song. Wonderful! wonderful! It seemed as
if the very trees, as if every grass-blade, as if the bushes, the very
sky above, and the earth beneath, had part in this wonderful symphony.
Then, as I have listened as it went on and on, I have thought. What a
study in the matter of song! If we could but learn from the birds. If
we could but open ourselves to the same powers and allow them to pour
forth in us, what singers, what movers of men we might have! Nay, what
singers and what movers of men _we would have_!

Do you know the circumstances under which Mr. Sankey sang for the first
time "The Ninety and Nine?" Says one of our able