22 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

Him, to work against Him is to work for
ourselves."

It is an easy distinction, but not so easy to
carry out, for service means renunciation of
self, but if the Service of the King was put first
in the War, can we not put God's Service first
in working for a Peace. We have the chance
now. The world's condition to-day makes it in
one way so much easier for us, for the old
conditions are broken up, conventions are
slipping away, old customs are being' forgotten,
prejudices dying. It is a chance of many life
times, and we must remember that every barrier
we put, consciously or unconsciously, which
makes for separation, be it in people or nations,
is a boulder on the road and a clog in the wheel
of God's plan ; but every work that unites
people or nations or tongues, every step that is
taken for a better understanding amongst the
people so as to draw them together is a help to
God's plan of evolution, to Unity, and draws
together towards that Brotherhood which is, as
I have said, the essence of the Divine Wisdom.

Thus swiftly have we surveyed the mighty
work which began long, long ago and yet is, as
the Upanishad says, " Still in the womb."

Creator/ Preserver, and Destroyer, He builds
and unbuilds, and builds again, one step nearer by