134 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

taught reincarnation, for it was only in the
fourth century that it was decided to eliminate
that doctrine from the Christian religion. No, it
seems to me if we would work consistently for the
future, we must be awake to the purpose of life,
to the idea that we belong not to ourselves but
to God, that His Plan is evolution, that we
must work with His Plan, that we are alt at
one in that Plan, and to work against His
purpose or His plan is inevitably to break
ourselves.

The race has been throughout the desire of the
Eternal Heart, His purpose from the beginning is to
bring it to Himself.

What hope, what joy fills our whole being,
when we realise that we can be of use, that God
needs us, and that He cannot fulfil His purpose
without our aid ! Does not that thought fire us
to fresh endeavour, to greater vigour, to renewed
effort, to uttermost loyalty in our purpose in
life?