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aim and rule of your life, that alone can make you perfect, 

 namely, to place your entire trust in God, leaving Him to 

 direct and reward your actions, and by leaving your life in 

 His hands to direct you on your way and reward your acts 

 as He thinks fit, so long as you make the best use of your 

 time, opportunities and talents, for the good of others. 



And this you will find He will always do, not in 

 the way you desire, but in the way that will make your, life 

 the most useful to the community if you will only preface 

 all acts of the day by an ardent desire to perform in the most 

 perfect manner you can your daily duties, leaving their 

 reward entirely in His hands. I say desire, because a prayer 

 not born of an ardent desire is no prayer at all. And with 

 the love she (if she was a good and devout woman, which I 

 take it for granted she was) also taught you the rudimental 

 principles of the religion her mother and her mother's 

 mother had bequeathed to her as their most cherished birth- 

 right, remember that she also bequeaths to you their past 

 religious knowledge and experience, and if the religion they 

 held was the most suited to assist the style of life that their 

 talents and social requirements most needed. In ninety-nine 

 cases out of one hundred you will inherit capabilities that 

 probably fit you for a like social position and occupation, so 

 it follows that their beliefs are most probably those most 

 suited to your requirements. Therefore, again I say put the 

 highest value on the religion she taught you, which, you may 

 rest assured, was the best she knew; add to its beauties 

 whenever you can, but be loth to destroy any of its flowers 

 until it is no longer possible to prevent their fading. 



Do not lose any chance of adding to its lustre by picking 

 any flowers of further enlightenment that may bloom 

 alongside the roadway of life and add them to your bouquet of 

 high ideals, as your after knowledge and experience may 

 enable you to add to their utility, and so enlarge the religion 

 of your individual soul. But be careful not to discard the 

 stilts of religion until you are sure you are on sound ground. 

 Christ tells us that He came not to destroy the teachings of 

 the past, but to enable us to see and believe them. But, as I 

 have already pointed out, God grants us enlightenment as 

 regards His revelations in exact proportion as the evolution 

 of our minds fit us to receive them. Not by the miracles of 



