Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter III In the Stream of Power Everything harmonizes with me which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O Nature; from thee are all things, in thee are all things, and to thee all things return.—Marcus Atjrelius. Deamess T T 7E are intimately related to the things ofthe W . / . and world. about us. In a very real sense they are a part of us, for we breathe and assimilate them. They are as much a part of us as our physical bodies, and are in fact but an infinite extension of ourselves. We can more readily dispense with eyes, hands, and feet than air and the light of rising suns. Our whole being mingles and communes with that which lies not only near us, but on the far frontiers of creation. No more vitally connected are the lungs and the air than every atom of us with the outlying regions whose tides lap the throne of God. There is contact as warm and actual with far as with near objects and influences. This maternal dearness of the world is comprehensible when we realize that the very poise of the figure depends upon the fine cooperation of the centrifugal and centripetal motions of the planet, while its balance waits upon the integrity of every star that moves. The throb of constellations is involved with the beat of the heart, and all worlds are keeping vigil in the humblest cottage in the land. Every orb is concerned in the motion of an eyelid or a thought that springs to birth. There is an indispensable relation be-Reflex r of God s tween the lowliest of us and all worlds and heart. heavens. Our beauty and goodness is a reflex of God's heart. The smallest act of truth, heroism, purity, finds quick sympathy in nature and intuitive r...