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and the workman's will is accomplished. What 

 noise and visible vigorous effort fail to do some 

 quiet life-power will achieve. The iron sledge- 

 hammer methods often fail, but patience and 

 persistence conquer. To do our best work 

 both repose of spirit and manner are neces- 

 sary. The excited man is never master of the 

 situation. The anxious and troubled worker is 

 never master of himself. The restless, nervous 

 worker works at great disadvantage to himself 

 and disturbs all who work with him. One must 

 have repose of spirit to get the best out of self 

 and the most out of life; and he must have re- 

 pose of manner to inspire fruitful energy in 

 others. 



How many precious revelations of Himself 

 has God given to individual souls, and inva- 

 riably these have been in secret places and in 

 quiet hours, apart and alone. Silence in His 

 secret pavilion, and there is His communion, 

 "Be still, and know that I am God!" He that 

 is restless gets no rootage nor fruitage. There 

 is no mechanism so delicate as the adjustment 

 of forces which make up human life. Its ad- 

 justment is ever done in secret; its working is 

 ever in society! 



So far had I thought, and talked in quiet 

 undertone, for the evening was instinct with 



