*. 



; > 



an hour of need ; serving me not by draw- 

 ing me to herself, but by setting me free 

 from a world that was beginning to master 

 and make me its slave. 



Now all that insensibly growing servitude 

 slips from me ; once more I am free and 

 my own. The inexhaustible life that is 

 behind all visible things, constantly flowing 

 in upon us when we keep the channels 

 open, recreates whatever was noblest and 

 truest in me. With Nature, I believe; and 

 believing, I also share in the universal 

 worship. 



Emerson somewhere says, writing about 

 the most difficult of Plato's dialogues, that 

 one must often wait long for the hour 

 when one is strong enough to grapple with 

 and master it, but sooner or later the fitting 

 morning will come. It is the morning 

 which gives us faith in the most .arduous 

 achievements, and invigorates us to under- 

 take them. In the morning all things are 

 possible because the heavens and the earth 

 are so visibly united in the fellowship of 

 common life; the one pouring down a 

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