LO I I OPEN A DOOR

And made for love — ^to embcace ail, to be tamtfd tiltimately with all.^

Thèse analogies, from the musical phrase and from the body, taken in gênerai tenns, afl&nn the f act that the Whole is présent in each of the Parts, that a Part is not a fragment but a partîcularized expression of the Whole. Stnce, therefore, Hnmanity is an organic Whole— past, présent, and future — ^it is expressed as such in each individual in a particular way. The race sings its songs through the lips of the poet, beholds its visions through the eyes of the seer, and achieves heights of hofiness and deliverance and communion through the ecstatic consdousness of the saint ; and the profound expériences of the individual are at one and the same time his own, and the expériences of the race as a whole in him.

In considérations such as thèse lies Carpenter's justification for expounding his own expérience as a world-evangel, His sensé, also, of his relation in that expérience to the Whole of Things détermines the form in which his message is delivered. There is a sentence in which he describes the main function which he wotdd per« form for those who are wiUing to listen to him. He says :

Loi I open a door.* 1 T. D.. p. 490, t Ibid,, p. 154,