154 SYDNEY T. KLEIX^ F.L.S.^ F.E.A.S., ON THE 



" ' There shall never be one lost good ! What was, shall live 

 as before ; 



The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound ; 



What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more ; 



On the earth the broken arcs ; in the heaven a perfect round.' 



"Then the stages of growth on pp. 136 and 137 are so beautiful 

 and true : 



" ' There is no good of life but love — but love ! 



What else looks good, is some shade flung from love ; 

 Love gilds it, gives it worth.' 



So let us say — not ' Since we know, we love,' 

 But rather, ' Since we love, we know enough.' 



"And in the passage on p. 139, beginning ' I will try to give my 

 own experience,' he does indeed ' wake an echo.' He writes my own 

 experience word for word, when he describes that yearning which is 

 almost pain in its intensity, which is one of the most vivid impressions 

 of childhood : 



" ' My God, my God, let me for once look on Thee 

 As though nought else existed, we alone ! 

 And as creation crumbles, my soul's spark 

 Expands till I can say, — Even from myself 

 I need Thee and I feel Thee and I love Thee,' 



" And on p. 142, 'A wondrous feeling of perfect peace.' 



"Thank God that wakes an echo too, and, as he says, is past 

 describing. Two other points I hope will be discussed. One is, 

 when he talks as on p. 139 of our Spiritual Personalities, does he mean 

 that any kind of body is transient only and must disappear with Time 

 and Space, surely our Spiritual bodies will be something more than 

 Spirit The second point is, is he justified in arguing by analogy 

 that the perfect sympathy between two material iron bars gives us 

 the key to the perfect sympathy between ourselves and the Divine 1 

 But perhaps he doesn't argue this and has got quite out of my reach 

 here ? 



" I like the way the idea of God's Immanence seems to underlie 

 the whole paper, and especially the expression ' bombarding our 

 sense organs.' " 



The Eev. Dr. Irving, D.Sc, B.A., thought that Mr. Sydney 

 Klein's paper was one which many members of the Victoria 



