What then, again let us ask, is love to God?  It is far more, we have found, than a mere sentimental abstraction.  It is this awakening to the higher, the god-self, a coming into the conscious realization of the fact that your life is one with, is a part of, the Infinite Life, the full realization of the fact that you are a spiritual being here and now, at this very moment, and a living as such.  It is being true to the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, and so a finding of the Christ within; a realization of the fact that God is the life of your life, and so not afar off; a realization of a oneness so perfect that you are able to say, as did His other son, “I and my Father are one”—­the ultimate destiny of each human soul, each of the Father’s children, for all, no matter what differences man may see, are equal in His sight; and He created not one in vain.  So love to God in its true expression is not a mere sentimentality, a mere abstraction:  it is life, it is growth, it is spiritual awakening and unfoldment, it is realization.  Again, it is life:  it is the more abundant life.

Then recognize this fact, and so fill your life with an intense, a passionate love for God.  Then take this life, so rich, so abundant, and so powerful, and lose it in the love and service of your fellow-men, the Father’s other children.  Fill it with an intense, a passionate love for service; and when this shall have been done, your life is in complete harmony with all the law and the prophets, in complete harmony with the two great and determining facts of human life and destiny,—­love to God and love to one’s fellow-men,—­the two eternal principles upon which the great universal religion, which is slowly and gradually evolving out an almost endless variety and form, is to rest.  Do this, and feel once for all the power and the thrill of the life universal.  Do this, and find yourself coming into the full realization of such splendors and beauties as all the royal courts of this world combined have never been able even to dream of.

When the step from the personal to the impersonal, from the personal, the individual, to the universal, is once made, the great solution of life has come; and by this same step one enters at once into the realm of all power.  When this is done, and one fully realizes the fact that the greatest life is the life spent in the service of all mankind, and then when he vitally grasps that great eternal principle of right, of truth, of justice, that runs through all the universe, and which, though temporarily it may seem to be perverted, always and with never an exception eventually prevails, and that with an omnipotent power,—­he then holds the key to all situations.

A king of this nature goes about his work absolutely regardless of what men may say or hear or think or do; for he himself has absolutely nothing to gain or nothing to lose, and nothing of this nature can come near him or touch him, for he is standing not in the personal, but in the universal.  He is then in God’s work, and the very God-powers are his, and it seems as if the very angels of heaven come to minister unto him and to move things his way; and this is true, very true, for he himself is simply moving God’s way, and when this is so, the certainty of the outcome is absolute.