of
their true selves, into a knowledge of their relations, of their
oneness, with the Infinite God, and such joy will be the result, and
such crowds will flock to them, that their very walls will seem almost
to burst, and such songs of joy will continually pour forth as will
make all people in love with the religion that makes for every-day
life, and hence the religion that is true and vital. Adequacy for
life, adequacy for everyday life here and now, must be the test of all
true religion. If it does not bear this test, then it simply is not
religion. We need an everyday, a this-world religion. All time spent
in connection with any other is worse than wasted. The eternal life
that we are now living will be well lived if we take good care of each
little period of time as it presents itself day after day. If we fail
in doing this, we fail in everything.

ENTERING NOW INTO THE REALIZATION OF THE HIGHEST RICHES.

I hear the question, What can be said in a concrete way in regard to
the method of coming into this realization? The facts underlying it
are, indeed, most beautiful and true, but how can we actualize in
ourselves the realization that carries with it such wonderful results?

The method is not difficult if we do not of ourselves make it
difficult. The principal word to be used is the word,--Open. Simply
to open your mind and heart to this divine inflow which is waiting only
for the opening of the gate, that it may enter. It is like opening the
gate of the trough which conducts the water from the reservoir above
into the field below. The water, by virtue of its very nature, will
rush in and irrigate the field if the gate is but opened. As to the
realization of our oneness with this Infinite Life and Power, after
seeing, as I think we have clearly seen by this time, the relations it
bears to us and we to it, the chief thing to be said is
simply,--Realize your oneness with it. The open mind and heart whereby
one is brought into the receptive attitude is the first thing
necessary. Then the earnest, sincere desire.

It may be an aid at first to take yourself for a few moments each day
into the quiet, into the silence, where you will not be agitated by the
disturbances that enter in through the avenues of the physical senses.
There in the quiet alone with God, put yourself into the receptive
attitude. Calmly, quietly, and expectantly desire that this
realization break in upon and take possession o