32 SKETCHES OF G-REAT TRUTHS

emptiness, the gold into dross. I may be wrong,
but I feel very strongly that we have all to go
through that stage in one way or another before
we turn to the work of discriminating that
which is of use, that which lives after we are
dead, and that which really matters, and the
answer echoes from land and sea. The only
thing of use is that which helps others, the only
deeds that live are noble and self-sacrificing
ones, the only thing that matters is G-od's work,
whether we help that or hinder that. These
distinctions take a long time to discriminate,
and for this reason we work on life after life
until discrimination is not needed, for we know
and can do no other.

There are more instances of remembrances of
past lives than most of us are aware of, and if
we are on the look-out for signs, they are not
very hard to seek. How often do we find a
recognition when two people meet possibly for
the " first time ". How often do we find that
we ii know " some one that we have u just met,"
that we understand an acquaintance of a day
better than the friends of long years' standing.
How often are members of a large family almost
strangers, one amongst them being altogether
different as if the mother hen had hatched a
duckling amongst the chickens, and how often