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Rh good, but he must voluntarily do it. The Lord sends love to his heart, but he must love it out to his fellow man. The Lord clothes his understanding with wisdom, but he must do his deeds of love with the wise insight that wisdom gives. The Lord operates for man's regeneration, but he must co-operate. If the Lord sends light to the chambers of his mind, he must throw open the windows of the soul that the light may flow in. If the Lord sends spiritual warmth, he must stand in the presence of his shining, and not lose its benefits by plunging into the fogs and shadows of self, where the benignant sun cannot reach.

So as man begins his career in darkness the Lord sends light. "Let there be light!" is the Divine fiat, and childhood is filled with schools and books and parental teachings to the dispersion of the shadows of life's beginnings. "Let there be a firmament in heaven!" and slowly the mind, prepared by the light of God, opens in its higher firmaments of heavenly thought, so that it may be capable of being filled with comprehensions of spiritual things. "Let there be first tender growths of herb and fruit!" and the spirit is clothed with the verdant germs of a better life, and the fruits of truer action are pendant on the bending boughs of its tree of life. "Let sun, moon and stars appear upon the firmament!" and love, faith and knowledge,