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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

listening. There must be measureless unselfishness.

The singer, listening to the Spirit before he sings, may pour forth in soulful song that transcendent harmony which speaks to the heart. The poet may suggest its presence in his verse. The author, writing only when the Spirit moves, will find that a greater than he has written. The speaker, turning aside from his audience in renewed dedication, will lose all self-consciousness, and find that his hearers are touched where no foresight of his could have touched them. The clergyman, casting aside his dogmas, will be moved to utter those sweet messages of peace which really comfort the bereaved heart. The artist may paint its beauties. The pianist may play as never master of technique has played. And, noblest of all, the father and mother may make the home a Christ home, a centre of that creative love whence springs a nobler generation.

Each of you has some gift like those I have named. Each of you has a message for the world. Reverence that gift, believe in that message, then trust all else to the Father. You are trying to solve that which is insoluble while you regard your work from the merely human point of view. Your hearts are touched with pity; yet you dwell on the conditions, and not on the end to be attained, through the sufferings of the world. One alone knows the way. Through spiritual inspiration does he alone declare it. Spiritual ends are highest. Spiritual ideals triumph over all. What is spiritual

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