And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to ruffle—­a peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the shallows of life.  It carried me scatheless through the terrible spring of 1891, when death struck down Charles Bradlaugh in the plenitude of his usefulness, and unlocked the gateway into rest for H. P. Blavatsky.  Through anxieties and responsibilities heavy and numerous it has borne me; every strain makes it stronger; every trial makes it serener; every assault leaves it more radiant.  Quiet confidence has taken the place of doubt; a strong security the place of anxious dread.  In life, through death, to life, I am but the servant of the great Brotherhood, and those on whose heads but for a moment the touch of the Master has rested in blessing can never again look upon the world save through eyes made luminous with the radiance of the Eternal Peace.

PEACE TO ALL BEINGS.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 1:  This odious law has now been altered, and a married woman is a person, not a chattel.]

[Footnote 2:  “The Disciples,” p. 14.]

[Footnote 3:  “On the Nature and Existence of God.” 1874.]

[Footnote 4:  “On the Nature and Existence of God.” 1874.]

[Footnote 5:  “The Gospel of Atheism.” 1876.]

[Footnote 6:  “Why I do not Believe in God.” 1887.]

[Footnote 7:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 8:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 9:  “Life, Death, and Immortality.” 1886.]

[Footnote 10:  “Life, Death, and Immortality.” 1886.]

[Footnote 11:  “Life, Death, and Immortality.” 1886.]

[Footnote 12:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 13:  “The Gospel of Atheism.” 1876.]

[Footnote 14:  “On the Nature and Existence of God.” 1874.]

[Footnote 15:  “The True Basis of Morality.” 1874.]

[Footnote 16:  “Gospel of Atheism.” 1876.]

[Footnote 17:  “On the Nature and Existence of God.” 1874.]

[Footnote 18:  “A World without God.” 1885.]

[Footnote 19:  “The Gospel of Atheism.” 1876.]

[Footnote 20:  “The Gospels of Christianity and Freethought.” 1874.]

[Footnote 21:  “A World without God.” 1885.]

[Footnote 22:  “A World without God.” 1885.]

[Footnote 23:  “The Gospel of Atheism.” 1876.]

[Footnote 24:  “A World without God.” 1885.]

[Footnote 25:  “A World without God.” 1885.]

[Footnote 26:  “The Christian Creed.” 1884.]

[Footnote 27:  National Reformer, June 18, 1882]

[Footnote 28:  Theosophist, June, 1882.]

[Footnote 29:  I leave these words as they were written in 1889.  I resigned my office in the N.S.S. in 1890, feeling that the N.S.S. was so identified with Materialism that it had no longer place for me.]