(3) But ngt all are ready for this "righteousness."" Much of the field that God broods over with the power of the Summer is unready because it has been neglected, unresponsive because it is overgrown. A man's nature easily falls out of cultivation, and it becomes hard like "the wayside," useless fallow ground. The Belgian thinker Maeterlinck fixed the truth in these words ''Hostile forces at once take possession of all that is vacant within us, not filled by the strength of our soul; and whatever is void in the heart or mind becomes a fountain of fatal influence." How well I remember the state of the allotment I took to cultivate during: the war. The soil was crusted over and covered with a tangle of unproductive growth, and nothing could be done until the fallow ground was
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