DEATH TO SELF

not excludes, ail the other delights ; true freedom embraces the lower kiiigdoms ; the soul's attainment of freedom gives us for the first time the true possession of our bodies, so that we renew our youth, and expérience the old passions not now as tyrants but as ministers.

" I conceive," says Carpenter —

I oonceive a mîUenniiim on eartb — a inîil#mnînm not of riches, nor of mechanical fadlities, nor of inteUectoal fadlities, nor absolutely of immtinîty from disease, nor absolutely of immnnity from pain; but a time whan men and women ail over the earth shaU ascend and enter into relation with tfaeir bodies — shaU attain freedom and joy.*

There must be no half-measures about this practice of withdrawal. This probably is the cause of so much of the ineflectiveness and disappointment which fill the lives even of those who know and acknowledge the way — they do not go the whole wa^v The complète sacrifice will give joy, but the half-sacrifice never ; and many there are who keep their hand upon the gift even when they hâve laid it on the altar. The complète abandonment will give Uberty, but the poUcy of half-abandonment fixes a man in that desperate half-way house between slavery and freedom, which is Uke the place of the breakers lying between the mud-bank where he can at least stick and the open sea where he can swim. With grim humour, Carpenter inscribes over the