How often did the Master say, “I seek not to do mine own will, but the will of the Father who sent me”!  Here is the world’s great example of the life out of the personal and in the universal, hence his great power.  The same has been true of all the saviors, the prophets, the seers, the sages, and the leaders in the world’s history, of all of truly great and lasting power.

He who would then come into the secret of power must come from the personal into the universal, and with this comes not only great power, but also freedom from the vexations and perplexities that rise from the misconstruing of motives, the opinions of others; for such a one cares nothing as to what men may say, or hear, or think, or do, so long as he is true to the great principles of right and truth before him.  And, if we will search carefully, we shall find that practically all the perplexities and difficulties of life have their origin on the side of the personal.

Much is said to young men to-day about success in life,—­success generally though, as the world calls success.  It is well, however, always to bear in mind the fact that there is a success which is a miserable, a deplorable failure; while, on the other hand, there is a failure which is a grand, a noble, a God-like success.  And one crying need of the age is that young men be taught the true dignity, nobility, and power of such a failure,—­such a failure in the eyes of the world to-day, but such a success in the eyes of God and the coming ages.  When this is done, there will be among us more prophets, more saviors, more men of grand and noble stature, who with a firm and steady hand will hold the lighted torch of true advancement high up among the people; and they will be those whom the people will gladly follow, for they will be those who will speak and move with authority, true sons of God, true brothers of men.  A man may make his millions and his life be a failure still.

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The promise was given that our conversation should not be extended; and unless we conclude it now, the promise will not be kept.  Our aim at the outset, you will remember, was to find answer to the question—­How can I make life yield its fullest and best? how can I know the true secret of power? how can I attain to true greatness? how can I fill the whole of life with a happiness, a peace, a joy, a satisfaction, that is ever rich and abiding, that ever increases, never diminishes?

Two great laws come forward:  the one, that we find our own lives in losing them in the service of others,—­love to the fellow-man; the other, that all life is one with, is part of, the Infinite Life, that we are not material, but spiritual beings,—­spiritual beings here and now, and a living as such, which brings us in turn to a realization of the higher, the god-self, thus bringing us into the realm of all peace, all power, and all plenty,—­this is love to God.