September 18

In returning and in rest shall ye be saved.

WHEREFORE it fell out that in the autumn-tide, when the stubble is brown in the fields and the apple red on the bough; on the last day of the week, when the toil comes to an end; in the last light of the day, when the smoke curls up from the roof, they won their long sea-way home. . . .

"In all the great sea of ocean," said Serapion, when he had told the story of their wandering, "no such Earthly Paradise have we seen as this dear Abbey of our own!"

"Dear brethren," said the Abbot, "the seven years of your seeking have not been wasted if you have truly learned so much. Far from home I have never gone, but many things have come to me. To be ever, and to be tranquilly, and to be joyously, and to be strenuously, and to be thankfully and humbly at one with the blessed will of God—that is the Heavenly Paradise; and each of us, by God's grace, may have that within him. And whoso bath within him the Heavenly Paradise hath here and now, and at all times and in every place, the true Earthly Paradise round about him.

WILLIAM CANTON

SATISFIED