April 12

How is it in religion? Have you not come to believe, are you not working continually upon the belief, that those great experiences, those lofty communions with God, those enterings into the secret places of His presence, that sense of oneness with His Spirit, which men used to ascribe to special natures, consecrated to a peculiar sainthood, belong to every man, everywhere, simply in virtue of his humanity; and that in some way those things may yet become the possession of every human soul; that, not only to saints who sit upon the mountain tops, in rapt psalm-singing, not merely to the souls who plunge into the deepest of overwhelming thoughts and hide themselves in the darkness which lies below the hard tread of man, but to every man may come,—and marvelous it seems when we say it,—to every man

may come the daily recognized communion with God.