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"A thread of Law runs through thy prayer
Stronger than iron cables are;
And Love and Longing towards its goal
Are pilots sweet to guide the soul.
So Life must live, and Soul must sail
And Unseen over Seen prevail
And all God's argosies come to shore
Though ocean smile or rage and roar."
And you are to remember that this voyage of unfoldment is eternal and you are to be happy every rod of the way. The joy of life is in creating, in unfolding, in going on.
I must turn to the poets at this stage of the discussion, for they are the truest philosophers, sages and seers, because they live in and report the Ideal, which is Truth.
I close this section with a little poem by an unknown author, prefacing it with extracts from Sam Walter Foss and from Kipling.
Foss says:
There is no bourn, no ultimate. The very farthest star,
But rims a sea of other stars extending just as far.
There's no beginning and no end. As in the ages gone
The greatest joy of joys shall be-the joy of going on.
Kipling says of the Ideal:
Our face is far from this our war,
Our call and counter-cry,
I shall not find Thee quick and kind
Nor know thee till I die.
Enough for me in dreams to see
And touch Thy garment's hem;
Thy feet have trod so near to God
I may not follow them.
But all these poets fail to give us the practical lesson which I wish you to draw from their lines and that is --- by worshiping the Ideal, we become that Ideal.
Therefore there is no better practice for you than to concentrate upon beautiful extracts of Great Thinkers and saintly persons. You can easily find them. The
