EACH FOR ITS OWN SAKE 



Those good persons who go through life looking 

 upon the Eternal as a power external to themselves, 

 saluting him as the soldier salutes his officer, are not 

 as truly religious as they think they are. The old 

 conception of an external God, the supreme ruler of 

 the universe, with whom Moses talked and walked 

 and even saw the hinder parts of, is out of date in 

 our time. Still the overarching thought of the In- 

 finite and the Eternal, in whom we live and move 

 and have our being, must at times awaken in the 

 minds of all of us, and lend dignity and sobriety to 

 our lives. 



But the other world fades as this world brightens. 

 Science has made this world so interesting and won- 

 derful, and our minds find such scope in it for the 

 exercise of all their powers, that thoughts of another 

 world are becoming foreign to us. We shall never 

 exhaust the beauties and the wonders and the 

 possibilities of this. To feel at home on this planet, 

 and that it is, with all its drawbacks, the best pos- 

 sible world, I look upon as the supreme felicity of 

 life. 



When we look at it in its mere physical and chemi- 

 cal aspects, its play of forces, tangible and intan- 

 gible, its reservoir of energy, its "journeying of 

 atoms," its radiating electrons, its magnetic cur- 

 rents, its transmutations and cycles of change, its 

 hidden but potent activities, its streaming auroras, 

 its changing seasons, its myriad forms of life, and 



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