August 21
Came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said,
Companions of the Way (Evening)Peace be unto you.
THE possession of such a secret involves no retirement from the world, no breaking of ties, no ecclesiastical exercises, no endeavour to penetrate obscure ideas. It is as simple as the sunlight and the air. It involves no protest, no phrase, no renunciation. Its protest will be an unconcerned example, its phrase will be a perfect sincerity of speech, its renunciation will be what it does, not what it abstains from doing. It will go or stay as the inner voice bids it. It will not attempt the impossible or the novel. Very clearly, from hour to hour, the path will be made plain, the weakness fortified, the sin purged away. It will judge no other life, it will seek no goal; it will sometimes strive and cry, it will sometimes rest; it will move as gently and simply in unison with the one Supreme Will as the tide moves beneath the moon, piled in the central deep with all its noises, flooding the mud-stained water-way where the ships ride together, or creeping softly upon the pale sands of some sequestered bay.
ARTHUR CHRIS- TOPIER BENSON
SORROW