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20 means keeping hold of the main certainty, while going into all the difficulties. But that is not our business here; we cannot all be trained philosophers, and it would be a queer world if we were. Our business is to see where and how you can really get the good which you trust in your religion to bring you.

In the unity of love and will with the supreme good you are not only “saved,” but you are “free” and “strong.” Action, initiative, even courage, flow from you like a spring from its source. The source may be fed from a deep reservoir in the hills; but none the less its flow is its own. You will not be helped by trying to divide up the unity and tell how much comes from “you” and how much from “God.” You have got to deepen yourself in it, or let it deepen itself in you, whatever phrase expresses the fact best