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386 together, each soul working and weaving itself into other souls. He feels that this world is an ante-chamber—a narrow passage and a first entrance into a larger glory where light never fails, truth never shakes and love never becomes feeble. Heaven is the Fulfiller of sympathy and trust. Even as a hidden spring gushes out through a narrow opening and spreads itself forth, so also the noble activities of life spread out freely without any the least limitation of mundane barriers and overflow in their fulness through the gorge of death. So we need not feel sorry for him. Yet there is an inseparable pain out of which there is born a new life with a deeper attachment. He is part and parcel now of that new birth in which new relations are allowed!

Thou, Supreme, Awe-inspiring Presence, we bow down before Thee. Thou hast drawn him into Thy presence. We are sure of his abiding peace and unfailing happiness in Thy bosom. We beseech Thee to put into us the knowledge and trust that this separation is a temporary, passing thing and that, in holier