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creed. We demand something real enough and deep enough to answer the human cry of our soul to-day. We need to be assured that we do not in the last resort fall back on the play of molecules but that underneath us are everlasting Arms. We want to know not only that there is law and order but that a genuine Heart of Love touches our heart and brings us calm and confidence.

Robert Louis Stevenson has somewhere told of an experience that happened once to his grandfather. He was on a vessel that was caught by a terrific storm and was carried irresistibly toward a rocky shore where complete destruction was imminent. When the storm and danger were at the height he crept up on deck to look around and face the worst. He saw the pilot lashed to the wheel, with all his might and nerve holding the vessel off the rocks and steering it inch by inch into safer water. While he stood watching, the pilot looked up at him and smiled. It was little enough but it completely reassured him. He went back to his room below with new confidence, saying to himself, "We shall come through; I saw the pilot smile!" If we could only in some way catch sight of a smile on the face of the great Pilot in this strange rough sea in which we are sailing, we, too, could do our work and carry our

burdens with confidence, perhaps with joy. I wish this little book might help some readers to be convinced that even in the dark and the storm there is a smile of hope and victory on the Pilot's face and that He is saying as the great Galilean said: "Be of good cheer, I am winning the victory over the world."

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THE WORLD WITHIN

CHAPTER I

THE DEEPER UNIVERSE

I

WHERE LOVE BREAKS THROUGH

WE do well to make strenuous exertions to meet the threatening food-famine and to cultivate efficiently all the acres that are available for increasing the food-supply of the world. But there is another kind of famine which is threatening and ominous, and which has not yet received anything like adequate attention. I mean the spiritual famine of our stricken world. Multitudes of men are daily facing danger and death. Vast numbers are weighted with loss, suffering and agony. The deeper problems of life rest heavily upon all of us. The old religious phrases are inadequate. Human hearts everywhere are longing for fresh and vital assurance that in this time of the world's greatest spiritual need the everlasting Arms of divine love are underneath us, and that one like

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