Lamb of God, and till you feel that your sin and guilt have all passed
off your hand and on upon His head. And never rise without, like William
Law, saluting the rising sun in the name of God, as if he had just been
created and sent up into your sky to let you see to serve God and your
neighbour for another day. And be often out of this world and up in
heaven. Beat all about you at building castles in the air; you have more
material and more reason. For is not faith the substance of things hoped
for, and the evidence of things not seen? Walk often in heaven's
friendly streets. Pass often into heaven's many mansions filled with
happy families. Imagine this unhappy life at an end, and imagine
yourself sent back to this probationary world to play the man for a few
short years before heaven finally calls you home. Little-Faith was a
good man, but there was no speculation in his eyes and no secrets of love
in his heart. And if your faith also is little, and your spending money
also is run low, try this way of love and imagination. If you have a
better way, then go on with it and be happy yourself and helpful to
others; but if your faith is at a standstill and is stricken with
barrenness, try my counsel of putting more heart and more inward eye,
more holy love and more heavenly joy, into your frigid and sterile
religion.




THE FLATTERER


"A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his
feet."--_The Wise Man_.