must therefore wait its time for true recognition, which can come only through the higher development of the individual, precedent upon that of the race. Only the awakened soul can really read the book.

The letter is dark and obscure. Our inward light must pierce it, meeting and mingling with the light it hides. In itself it is truly "a lamp to the feet"; but the soul that would walk "in the way" must have its own taper lit from the same great flame.

And this taper is within all of us. It is the "true light" that "lighteth every man that cometh into the world." It is the radiance of the higher soul that has been growing slowly within the husk of the outer consciousness; for we live ourselves into the eternal Substance of all things.

"Louis' early years." says Balzac, "grew more and more a revelation of the very truths his soul was struggling to find."

The Bible awaits this interior recognition which always precedes the permanent outward discovery. From the ranks of its true students shall grow a race of seers who dwell on serene heights far above the latitude of speculation, whose vision is not obscured by the mist and dust of materialistic scientific theory, whose ears are not deafened by the noise of intellectual strife, whose hearts are not frozen by knowledge without feeling, or maddened by feeling without wisdom. As princes of "the house of David," they shall