whose garments I am unworthy to touch. "The words that they speak unto you « In they are Spirit and they are Life." order to know more you must be more." Faith strikes its roots deep in the spirit, and often Intuition is a safer guide than Reason. When a man, by constant practice, has so quickened his spiritual perceptions that he can receive conscious impressions from his invisible attendants, he will never be without counsellors. "Let Faith be given To the still tones that oft our being waken - The Spirit-World is not so distant as it seems, and the veil of Materiality which hides it from our view, by hopeful and untiring aspiration can be rent in twain. We only need listen earnestly and attentively, and we shall soon learn to keep step in the grand march of Life to the music of As a a popular author the upper spheres. has beautifully said, "Silence is vocal, if we listen well." With a sublime accord, the great anthem of the Infinite "rolls and resounds" through the Universe, and whosoever will, can listen to that harmony, till all special and particular discords shall die out from the "Inner Life," and the Heaven of the celestial intelligences shall blend with the "Heaven within," in perfect unison! UNIVERSITY САТ CALIFORNIA POEMS FROM THE INNER LIFE. THE PRAYER OF THE SORROWING. "And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven strengthening him." GOD! hear my prayer! Thou who hast poured the essence of thy life Thou who amid the tempest's gloom and strife Art the lone star that guides me on my way; When my crushed heart, by constant striving torn, Flies shuddering from its own impurity, And my faint spirit, by its sorrows worn, (3) |