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306 yours, for they give me much personal pleasure, and they are not excruciatingly transcendental. They require less self-abnegation, and keep Soul well out of sight. Moreover, I have no notion of losing my old doctrines or human opinions.”

Dear reader, which mind-picture, or eternalized thought, shall be real to you, — the material or the spiritual? Both

you cannot have. You are bringing out your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you try to have two models, then you practically have none. Like a pendulum in a clock, you will strike the ribs of matter, and be thrown back and forth, swinging forever between the real and the unreal.

Hear the wisdom of Job, as given in the excellent translation of the late Rev. George R. Noyes, D.D., of Harvard University: