"The Inspired Life" was the theme of a lecture at the Theosophical Society's Hall, No. 7a Ezra toad on. Saturday evening last by Capt. G. W. Carter. The lecturer said in part: The distinguishing characteristic of the inspired life is the spirit of sacrifice. Whoever possesses that belongs to the nobility of nature, to kinship of God, whether he wears the rags of a mendicant or the robes of a king.
Inspiration is an intensification of the divine force that is withia all human beings. The old idea that divine inspiration is a uonopoly of religious writers and workers, of saints and seers, is as narrow us the theology of the Middle Age monks. The truth is that all whose greatness and goodness make them channels for the divine force are inspired. All whose love of their fellow-men has moved then to accept hardship and poverty and pain in helping to lighten the sorrows of the world have lived the inspired life. It is no more possible to limit inspiration than it iv to define God. Religious activities do not monopolize it. Who 1s the truly religious man? He who enlightens mankind. He who lives to serve the world. He who feeds the hungry and lifts the fallen. He who fights the battles of the oppressed. He who lives in advance of his times and in exchange for his brave opinions accepts payment in the coin of calumny. He who gives his life for a principle, even through mistaken judgement, in a bad cause. Whether famous or obscure, whether respectable or despised they are truly religious—they are all in the galaxy of the great.
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