Rest

The door that opens into the Land of Quiet is one that opens inward. The attainment of Rest is largely in our own hands, for there is an inward kingdom where rest is always to be found whatever be the outward disturbance. Carpenter calls it " The Central Calm," * and his symbol for it is the centre of a cyclone whose relative fixity and peace is " guarded by the very tornado around."

Our circumstances are full of change and of uncertainty; it is as if "Time itself" were ' ' rushing on with amazing swif tness in its vast and endless round" ; the conséquence of this is that, at the circumference where he comes into touch with the extemal world, a man's life is characterized by turmoil and uiurest ; never more so than in thèse modem days wherein the tempo of hving seems to hâve been so speeded up that " a day is as a thousand years." The rush, whirl, raucous-voiced din of modem Ufe becomes at times almost a nightmare. The effort to keep

1 T. D„ p. 286. » Ibid,, p. 481.