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day lifts billions of tons of water. Electricity makes no sound as it ceaselessly works amid the spheres."When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy, the objective world was silent; only the ear that hears in the silence heard the song of joy. The Trappist monks have this saying --- It is silence that shuts out new ideas, worldly topics and controversy. It is silence that enables the soul to contemplate with singleness and mortification the infinite perfections of the Eternal!
During my youth I learned this extract which has been an inspiration to me. I know not the author.
"In silence mighty things are wrought-
Silently build, thought on thought,
Truth's temple greets the sky;
And like a citadel with towers
The Soul with her subservient powers
Is strengthened silently."
The Bible contains many passages upon the power of silence and none more valuable than the admonition of Jesus to Enter the closet, which I interpret, from my experience, to mean, Close the external senses and listen to the Silence and what you hear there you shall manifest in your life." All the possibility of Demonstration in all lines of mental science must lie in the enfoldment that comes through meditation --- Silence. The Hindoo mystic does this when he sits under the Bo-tree and hears nothing. Concentration in Silence is the only road to inspiration, in any of its forms of Life, Love, Truth and Power.
The Power of Silence and the Power in, silence are the most important lessons the present century has to learn. Prof. William Crooks estimates that "a cubic foot of
