"Here eyes do regard you in eternity's stillness." "Choose well; your
choice is brief, but yet endless." The winged fiend, the "Appolyon,"
must be met and settled with at every turn of the way that leads to the
kingdom which the Christ came to establish, and whose best name is
"peace." In this grade, love finds no home, but its great prototype,
the lust of the flesh, stealing ever the livery of heaven, lures on
tender souls to their sad undoing.

By help of divine love alone can the soul journey safely onward and
upward through this great concentrated, immediately-environing earth
grade. It is solidly compact, sleepless and untiring, seeking
ceaselessly whom it may win to its realm. It is the unrecognized
longing of the soul for restoration to its divine heritage of love.




EXPERIENCE.

Experience is at the same time the surest and the slowest teacher of
men. Wisdom, the crowning glory of humanity, is but an enlarged
perception of man's needs, and how to meet them, based upon individual
experience and observation of the effects of natural law upon all. An
individual is an epitome of the world--society. Discipline is
everywhere considered indispensable to the individual. Far more is it
so to the world of society. Anarchy and revolution are no more
efficient for the body politic than for the individual. Growth, slow
and gradual, aggregation of power and wisdom through the education and
enlightenment of its individual members, is the only safe and sure way