ENLARGE THE CUP

acquaintances, in reading, in travel, arises because we are thereby delivered from a more or less narrow and parochial outlook and habit, and feel within oursdves the f reshening, vitalizing motions qi the currents of a wider lif e.

The narrow creed, whether of ethics or theology, wherein sometimes a man feels strait-laced and stified, is breached by doubts, punctured by interrogations, bombarded by the new facts of science or the new ideas of philosophy as by explosive projectiles, and through pain, but ultimately with great satisfaction, the man enters into the broader view and the larger f aith.

The great Uf e always waits upon the opening heart ; there is no need to fear a vacuum. Enlarge your cup, and there is always more than enough to fiU it, if you wiU only plunge it into the stream.

The Redeemer is the revaluer, and the revaluing means the placing of the life-facts in a larger perspective, an ampler setting.

Restriction, as we hâve ah'eady said, is not an evil thing in itself ; far otherwise ; the higher the animal, the longer the natural pre-natal period ; an abortive birth is the most tragic of failures. We must not mistake the womb for the prison. The blossom requires the protective sheath. The undiscipUned Ufe requires the restraint of conventions each of which crystallizes a good deal of commtmal expérience. The original thinker must not break away from