THE ORDERING OF ONE'S DAYS 



whereby one has been saved from oneself. Then 

 one realizes how much, outside mortal ken, the 

 ordering of one's days has been directed, some- 

 times in opposition to one's own futile imaginings, 

 to an ultimate end, the wisdom of which time has 

 made plainly manifest. I started in life, as I 

 have told in detail elsewhere, with my mind fixed 

 upon an entirely different objective to that upon 

 which my ambition was ultimately set. Years 

 afterwards I was permitted to understand how 

 my destiny had been shaped in accordance with 

 a pre-ordained end, and for my own good. In 

 saying this, let me make my belief clear for I 

 am no fatalist that the individual is far from 

 being a negligible quantity in the shaping of his 

 own life ; far from being the mere irresponsible 

 instrument of a Superior Power. His part in the 

 transaction lies in his willingness, or otherwise, 

 to serve when the call is made upon him ; to 

 sacrifice, of his own volition, inclination to duty ; 

 to do with all his might his allotted task. Having 

 so done, he can possess his soul in patience, and 

 with all good courage await the fulfilment of the 

 promise that " every man shall receive his own 

 reward according to his own labour." 



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