THE ARRIVAI OF THE MASTER

are stronger than iron, tba fetters harder than steel, éhall dissolve — you shall go Iree for ever. . . .

Ail tools shall serve.

The spade shall serve. It shall unearth a treasure beyond price. . . .

The wiiter shall write, the compositor shall set up, the student by his midnight lamp shall read, a word never seen before.

The engine-driver shall drive in faith through the night. With one hand on the regulator he shall lean sideways and peer into the darkness — and lo I a new signal not given in the printed instructions shall duly in course appear ^ ;

the passage culminating in a mémorable sentence, a touch of real genius :

The Magdalen shall run down to answer the knock at the door, and Jésus her lover himself shall enter in.*

But while ail expérience has this eliciting and delivering virtue, there are certain kinds of expérience which appear to work with especial directness and force to this end ; they may, for this reason, be called the great expériences of lif e. They are Pain, Love, and the Moral Struggle. To thèse we must now turn, and examine in détail.

1 T. p., p. 231. » Ibid., p. 233.