June 18th.  The effort to detect the living Spirit must be at least as idle as the attempt to subject protoplasm to microscopic examination in the hope of discovering Life.  We are warned, also, not to expect too much.  “Thou canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth.”  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 237.

June 19th.  Many men would be religious if they knew where to begin; many would be more religious if they were sure where it would end.  It is not indifference that keeps some men from God, but ignorance.  “Good Master, what must I do to inherit Eternal Life?” is still the deepest question of the age.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 237.

June 20th.  The voice of God and the voice of Nature.  I cannot be wrong if I listen to them.  Sometimes, when uncertain of a voice from its very loudness, we catch the missing syllable in the echo.  In God and Nature we have Voice and Echo.  When I hear both, I am assured.  My sense of hearing does not betray me twice.  I recognize the Voice in the Echo, the Echo makes me certain of the Voice; I listen and I know.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 238.

June 21st.  The soul is a living organism.  And for any question as to the soul’s Life we must appeal to Life-science.  And what does the Life-science teach?  That if I am to inherit Eternal Life, I must cultivate a correspondence with the Eternal.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 239.

June 22d.  All knowledge lies in Environment.  When I want to know about minerals I go to minerals.  When I want to know about flowers I go to flowers.  And they tell me.  In their own way they speak to me, each in its own way, and each for itself—­not the mineral for the flower, which is impossible, nor the flower for the mineral, which is also impossible.  So if I want to know about Man, I go to his part of the Environment.  And he tells me about himself, not as the plant or the mineral, for he is neither, but in his own way.  And if I want to know about God, I go to His part of the Environment.  And He tells me about Himself, not as a Man, for He is not Man, but in His own way.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 239.

June 23d.  Just as naturally as the flower and the mineral and the Man, each in their own way, tell me about themselves, He tells me about Himself.  He very strangely condescends indeed in making things plain to me, actually assuming for a time the Form of a Man that I at my poor level may better see Him.  This is my opportunity to know Him.  This incarnation is God making Himself accessible to human thought—­God opening to Man the possibility of correspondence through Jesus Christ.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 240.

June 24th.  Having opened correspondence with the Eternal Environment, the subsequent stages are in the line of all other normal development.  We have but to continue, to deepen, to extend, and to enrich the correspondence that has been begun.  And we shall soon find to our surprise that this is accompanied by another and parallel process.  The action is not all upon our side.  The Environment also will be found to correspond.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 241.