THE BEGINNINGS IN THE HEART

sions of faîth, so aiso the hearts of most men are broader than the artificial limitations, deeper than the conventional standards, of the social organization wherein they are placed, and this is the grotind of the expectation of the truer, more human sodety. Many a man continues to live more or less satisf actorily within the prisonhouse of public opinion, in whose heart throb the puises of Personal Uberty which make him inwardly a défier and scomer of the powers-that-be, and which, should they find adéquate expression in action, would probably make him an outcast. Many a man, bowing the knee in the House of Rimmon, conforming daily to the conventions and codes of his class, has a heart big enough to receive and embrace ail men in equality and brotherhood. Ail such men are the potential saviours and redeemers of the world. If the world could become outwardly that which their hearts are inwardly, the agony of the âges would be accomplished, the perfect sodety would be hère. And surely it shall corne ; for they carry the foreshadowing and promise of it with them. But, alas ! the Will lags ; the bonds are many, the fetters are heavy ; the outlet is not apparent, and they cannot break through the thickset since the Inward Reality does not find ail at once a power equal to its authority. They wait the arrivai of the great individual, the Christ who descends to the spirits in prison. They themselves are the promise of the great individual ;