shows what is worth while; acquire facts and master the laws of nature; meet life philosophically that you may really meet it to advantage. Whatever powers of control we possess may then be brought into exercise.

Are we able as finite beings to break through the inertia of our selfhood and rouse the will to action? Whence come the highest incentives that ever actuate men and women? To answer these questions we must consider the deeper problem more or less in sight throughout our discussion, What are our powers ultimately? Whence comes the life by which we gain control over physical, nervous, and mental powers, ascending from the level of mere energy to that of inward peace and spiritual composure? Surely we cannot expect to solve our problem without taking into account the deepening and quickening experiences which transform us from creatures of distrust and worriment into beings of faith and hope, conferring on us the priceless gifts of the Spirit. The whole situation changes when we view it in this light.

Starting at the highest conceivable centre of the cosmos, it is reasonable to assume that the divine life is without friction, or misspent energy. Knowledge of human suffering there may be, also sympathy, love of a constant type, proceeding forth in creative efficiency. If the creative power, going forth in progressive expression, encounters