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Rh nor speech actually frame it into words, the heart is full of it, and thought and speech will glow with it at the instant some little circumstance seems to call them forth. You live amid the sphere of its radiance and you bask in the sunlight of its everlasting presence.

This state, however, is one of great spiritual elevation. The fifth stage of regeneration, the fifth day of the new creation of the soul, only marks its beginnings. The state is one which only the highest angels of heaven enjoy in its full perfection. Happy we, if we can gain such brightening glimpses of its truth, such occasional broad experiences of its reality, as will lead us to yearn for its presence more and more. To love a thing is to get it in the end. For love will compass all things; it will tear down impediments; it will break through barriers; it will restlessly work until it gains the object loved. Love for mental states once experienced, for heart-conditions which meet the Lord's approval, will gain, in the end, their permanent possession.

So in this fifth stage of progress toward a perfect life, we gain our conscious beginnings of the happiness which the soul may possess in obtaining a genuine faith in the Lord, and in realizing a love for Him and his words of life. In the fourth stage, the sun, moon and stars—love, faith and knowledge, first lit our shining way. In the fifth stage, the