OUR PURPOSE IN LIFE 129

he has chosen is sparsely populated, and it has
lonely stretches on it. He can do no otherwise,
for this Divine Spark has awakened within
him a surety of purpose, and there is no going
back, for once he has seen the light, darkness
can never be so black, for there is the remem-
brance of that light, even if it is shadowed for
awhile. He cannot join in the pettinesses and
frivolities of the world around him.

The one who has not caught a glimpse of the
purpose of life has altogether another vision, to
him life is a sporting ground of pleasure for
himself, to amass money, to seek pleasures, to
gather gains, to enjoy life, to get on, these are
his aims, and they are all centred in himself.
It is true that he may do kindnesses on the
way, but the kindness to others is subsidiary to
his struggle for self enjoyment. That is the
great difference, and if one had to go, it would
be the thought of others that would be pushed
out in the struggle for his personal self.
To this class belong also all those who have
scarcely a thought beyond animal pleasure. It
sometimes appears that these last are slipping
back, but in reality it is not so, for there is
never a man in whom the Divine Spark is
dead or even totally eclipsed, and in the
apparently most depraved lie the same