NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



conflict that it has taken to pro- 

 duce such a free individuality. 



"We see all around us those 

 in whom is being wrought out 

 through the divine spirit of Christ 

 a spiritual nature; a true son 

 of God, of immortality. How 

 strange it is to look into a human 

 face, and to look into human eyes, 

 and to think that a son of the liv- 

 ing God is veiled there — to think 

 of the greatness of that creature, 

 for the accomplishment of which 

 all creation on earth has been in 

 travail for these untold ages ! 



Often not anything extraor- 

 dinary impresses us, as we look 

 upon a comrade in whom this 

 Christ nature has begun ; but wait : 

 we now see this kingdom of the 

 soul only in its germ. The bulb 

 of the tiger lily is not over pretty, 

 but to the eyes that see the possi- 

 bilities of the tiger lily, that bulb 

 is a poem. The step from the 

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