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 "Just let the Kingdom of Heaven take you": why struggle for our own when nothing, "no thing," disputes our claim? All we need do to come into our full inheritance is prove our identity as legitimate heirs. Here again, nothing denies the truth. Simple, when we let God show us how, "so divinely easy that the only wonder is that we have not done it before!" Like the air and the sky, when we open our "upper eyes," Heaven simply is; and it is all there is, for God is there.

Yes, this "straining" is the "point"; always sending messages, unmindful of the fact that no answer can be "received" by a "transmitter." How plain it all was now to Hernando. His prayers of childhood, youth, manhood, when from the very bottom of his heart, had all been "received" at the great central office, and here were the answers "in heaps."

Oh, how much easier his life might have been had he been "willing" to "receive"; but he had kicked "against the goads" and so must learn obedience through bitter experience. He had worked back to the "forks of the road"