personifying his high descriptions with people like unto his descriptions. "Thou art my light and my salvation," sang the Hebrew captives in Babylon. Then came great Cyrus lighting up their half forgotten religion, and his Persian army with him, to hew for the singers their lost way back to Jerusalem their half forgotten home.

In our own time, by practicing the same law in lesser fashion, the young Dorman declared himself so identified with Omni-present Spirit, all-health, that like the ardent Sufi he felt "0 Thou I and I Thou!" This made him as "the Sun of righteousness with healing in his wings." All who came near him sensed healing elixirs stirring in their veins, and blessed his miracle-working sunshine.

Dorman did not notice the people's wailings. He did not grieve for their misfortunes. He was deaf and dumb to all save the healing "Thou I and I Thou." "Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant? Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears but he heareth not." Thus the blind and the deaf like the idle and the aged hold the mystic key to another world's wonderful gates. Are we not all of us open-eyed and open-eared to signs and cries of distress? But the truly open-eyed see the heavenly host free, wise, immortal.

The twelfth stone of character is the amethyst, significant of divine deafness and blindness. As the ruby is the most precious of all the precious stones, in the estimation of man, being significant of judgment, so the amethyst is least precious among men, being significant of Dorman deafness and blindness, two terrifying conditions in the estimation of man, depending for their