only the Law of Love, have no place in the ultimate reality of Life, he too re-enters the house, now no longer as a servant but as a son, and joins in the festival of everlasting joy.

We find the same lesson on the parable of the Talents. The use of the powers and opportunities we have, just where we are now, naturally opens up sequences by which still further opportunities, and consequently higher development of our powers, become possible; and these higher developments in their turn open the way to yet further expansion, so that there is no limit to the process of growth other than what we set it to by denying or doubting the principle of growth in ourselves, which is what is meant by the servant burying his talent in the earth.

"The lord" is the Living Principle of Evolution which obtains equally on all planes, and nothing has been more fully established by science than the Law that as soon as progress stops, retrogression begins; so that it is only by continual advance we can escape the penalty with which Professor Aytoun threatens us in his humorous verse, that we shall

"Return to the monad from which we all sprang,
Which nobody can deny."

But on the other hand, the employment of our faculties and opportunities, so far as we realise them, is, by the same Law, certain to produce its own