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326 If Truth is overcoming error in your daily walk and conversation, you can finally say, “I have fought the

good fight, I have kept the faith,” because you are a better man. This is having our part in the at-one-ment with Truth and Love. It is vain and selfish to stand still and pray, expecting, because of another's goodness, suffering, and triumph, that we shall thus reach his harmony and reward.

If the disciple is advancing spiritually, he constantly turns away from material sense, and looks towards the imperishable things of Spirit. If honest, he will be in earnest from the start, and so gain a little each day in the right direction, till at last he finishes his course with joy.

If my friends are going to Europe, while I am en route for California, we are not journeying together. We have

separate time-tables to consult, different routes to pursue. Our paths have diverged at the very outset, and we have little opportunity to help each other. On the contrary, if my friends pursue my course, we have the same railroad guides, and our mutual interests are identical; or, if I take up their line of travel, they will help me on, and our companionship may continue.

Being in sympathy with matter, the worldly man is at the beck and call of error, and will be attracted

thitherward. He is like a traveller going westward, for a pleasure trip. The company is alluring and the pleasures exciting. After following the sun for six days, he turns east on the seventh, — satisfied, if he can only imagine himself drifting in a certain direction. By-and-by, ashamed of his zigzag course, he perhaps steals the passport of some wiser