not the professional good-doing.  It is simply living its natural life, open-minded, open-hearted, doing each day what its hands find to do, and in this finding its own true life and joy.  And in this way it unintentionally but irresistibly draws to itself a praise the rarest and divinest I know of,—­the praise I heard given but a day or two ago to one who is living simply his own natural life without any conscious effort at anything else, the praise contained in the words:  And, oh, it is beautiful, the great amount of good he does and of which the world never hears.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote C:  “According to the mythology of the Romancers, the Sangreal, or Holy Grail, was the cup out of which Jesus partook of the Last Supper with his disciples.  It was brought into England by Joseph of Arimathea, and remained there, an object of pilgrimage and adoration, for many years in the keeping of his lineal descendants.  It was incumbent upon those who had charge of it to be chaste in thought, word, and deed; but, one of the keepers having broken this condition, the Holy Grail disappeared.  From that time it was a favorite enterprise of the Knights of Sir Arthur’s court to go in search of it.”—­James Russell Lowell.]

PART V.

THE INCOMING

O dull, gray grub, unsightly and noisome, unable to roam,
Days pass, God’s at work, the slow chemistry’s going on,
Behold!  Behold! 
O brilliant, buoyant life, full winged, all the heaven’s thy home! 
O poor, mean man, stumbling and falling, e’en shamed by a clod. 
Years pass, God’s at work, spiritual awakening has come,
Behold!  Behold! 
O regal, royal soul, then image, now the likeness of God.

The Master Teacher, he who appeals most strongly and comes nearest to us of this western civilization, has told us that the whole and the highest duty of man is comprised in two great, two simple precepts—–­ love to God and love to the fellow-man.  The latter we have already fully considered.  We have found that in its real and true meaning it is not a mere indefinite or sentimental abstraction, but that it is a vital, living force; and in its manifestation it is life, it is action, it is service.  Let us now for a moment to the other,—­love to God, which in great measure however let it be said, has been considered in dealing with love to the fellow-man.  Let us see, however, what it in its true and full nature reveals.

The question naturally arising at the outset is, Who, what is God?  I think no truer, sublimer definition has ever been given in the world’s history, in any language, in any clime, than that given by the Master himself when standing by the side of Jacob’s well, to the Samaritan woman he said, God is Spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.  God is Spirit, the Infinite Spirit,