64 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

sown in past lives. Imagine, for a moment,
the difference it makes in one's attitude to life^
if one realises that everything that happens is
under law, not a thing of chance, not a hap-
hazard happening that conies for no reason. A
vast amount of people in the world are under the
delusion that they come into it by chance or at
best by the arbitrary will of a God, who is
depicted as having no sense of justice and with
a strong sense of vengeance and vindictive-
ness.

Take, as another instance, the results of the^
war. One of the results is so terrible that we hear
little or nothing about it. If the world were
at one in seeking the Divine Wisdom, there
would be no need to veil the facts of these
ghastly results, for we should realise that this
also comes under the law of action and reaction.
I refer, of course, especially to those who are
totally disabled by loss of both the upper and
lower limbs, by paralysis, by injured spine, by
extreme shell-shock, by mental incapacity, and,
possibly the worst of all, by fearful facial dis-
figurement. The large majority of these are
shut away necessarily in hospitals arranged
for the purpose, or, in one case, in a garden
of a College at one of our Universities.
Their untold sufferings are difficult to imagine,