Deliverance

. Deliverance — ^and it is none the less true for being almost a truism — ^is to find entrance into a larger life.^ This is the common denominator of ail redemptive expérience. There are minor and major dehverances, but they ail iUustrate this fact. The reason why Work is one of the great consolations is because it *' takes us out of oursdves/ ' as we say. The satisfaction which anses sometimes suddenly in the form of a windfall to a poor man, or more often tardily in the form of success and prosperity to the man who for years has had a hard and harassing struggle, is due to the fact that he is set free from Uttle irritating anxieties and cares; he has more scope and elbow-room ; his attention is Uberated from certain petty détails and somewhat sordid calculations. The expérience is real and valid enough,

^ Mr. Stephen Graliam teUs that the inhabitants of Nova Zembla give the name of " Restmection Day " to the day when the lolitary annoal maU-packet visita the island from the mainland — tiie glad expérience of touch with a wider life.