Those who were not ready to respond to such subtle and insistent call dropped away, one by one-first the curiosityseekers, then the critics, then the wise ones who felt it wisdom to wait apart till the central idea, better understood in all its relations, could be carried out more coöperatively. Meantime, this same spirit hovered like a benediction over all, while the silken flag continued to open its white folds to the purifying winds, bearing the message "Peace-to them which are afar off, and to them which are nigh."

And as the sixth season, just closed, falls back into perspective view, it seems to many that this Spirit of Peace, born of the recognition of the divine nature in man and the power to overcome all evil with good only, has defined itself and made its presence and power felt as in no previous year. Unity of soul through diversity of detailed thought, which must in its nature compel unity and order of action, has been a marked feature of the summer's work; and to the degree that cumulated power is greater and more permanent than the power of impulse to the same degree does the Greenacre of to-day, we believe, stand on a basis immeasurably stronger, firmer, and more enduring than the Greenacre of eighteen-ninetyfour.

Deep, soul-building lessons have been learned, and are yet to be learned through the coming years, by those who come to this "shrine to pray." Many a soul has found himself here, awakened to undreamed-of possibilities, and gone away with clearer vision of God as a Father, of man as a brother, of himself as the divine image and likeness, and of the world as his field of conquest.

MAN must rise, not merely in his imagination, but with his will, above all that is earthly, sensual, or merely intellectual, if he desires to be a power in the kingdom of the Spirit. Thus will the ideal become real to him.-Franz Hartmann, M.D.

It is the twilight hour; the noisy day
Has folded soft her weary wings, and steals
Through golden portals of the setting sun
Into oblivion. The sweet eventide

With faintly rustling flight now comes to fold,
In dewy, soft embrace, both field and wood.
Her breath is like the poppy's breath, to lull
Gently asleep the haunting cares of day,
While waking the rapt soul to visions fair
That float all undefined, like evening clouds,
And tinged like them, with purple, gold and red,
Saffron and violet. Her voice is low,
Musical, murmuring, like running brooks,
Heard at a distance through the forest shade.
Her words are all of peace-of peace and rest.
I scarcely breathe for listening; entranced,

I feel her whispering breath sweep o'er my cheek,
And long to catch the secret which she tells.
Mortal," she softly murmurs, "cast thy care
On One above." And from the distant hills
A wandering zephyr answers, "Yea, on Him
Who careth for thee. This is perfect peace."

One of the strong features of Greenacre is the School of Music, which for four years has been under the direction of Miss Mary H. Burnham, with a competent corps of teachers. The aim of the School has been, not music simply as entertainment, but as an educational and spiritual factor in the development of life as a whole.

It is well understood that music tends to strengthen and develop the artistic temperament. It appeals to the instinctive and intuitive side of life. Music affects the whole nature of man, and a consciousness of order and harmony is developed, as well as a sympathetic responsiveness to the world of imagination. For under the power and sway of great music the imaginative faculty is stimulated and lifted, and we enter for the time being that radiant place where the great stillness is. There we become receptive to all that is highest and best, and there come a clearer vision and a deeper insight into all phases of truth.

The spirit in which the music has been given at Greenacre has meant to many a deeper insight into Nature, and made manifest the unity of thought, feeling, and action-and with a growing consciousness of rhythm, the "heart-beat" of the universe.

There comes from across the sea-from one who gave freely of her voice and self-a message that, in the giving, she received. She writes: "When alone in the Swedish woods, I feel the peace which we used to experience in the big tent, those wonderful evenings, with a longing for goodness and holiness that we called the 'Greenacre spirit.'

In the strong words of William S. Tomlins, of Chicago, "Music comes to us with amazing, incomprehensible power, lifting us from the valley, from the pots and pans of daily toil, up to the heights from which life may be reviewed in truer perspective. Thus it reveals to us our fuller stature and suggests higher ideals.

Setting the standard before our eyes, music says to us: 'This is you; this is the mark of your higher calling,' and bids us to live the harmonies we voice in song."

The School has been ably conducted by Miss Burnham, with the thought that it should reach the people in the surrounding country, as well as those who come to Greenacre for its many advantages. No one is turned away for lack of means.

THE world is young as yet and hardly recognizes the fact that there are necessaries of life for the soul as well as for the body. As food develops the physical system so ideas develop the spirit of man. It is no more important that you should lay in a stock of the one than of the other. Men live on their ideas quite as they do on bread. As there is a difference in food, so there is a difference in thoughts. Some are exhilarating, stimulant in their nature, uplifting, making us optimistic, hopeful, ready for any fortune that may befall. They nourish the soul, make it athletic, take away all dread of the future, give us what the racer has who feels sure that he is going to win the prize and whose anticipation of victory adds to the speed of his feet. Tell me frankly what your controlling thought is, what kind of thinking you do every day, and I will tell you what kind of a man you are-whether you are making friends or enemies, how you will meet the emergencies that come into every human experience, whether affliction will embitter you or mature, sweeten, and ripen you. We are what we think. Your chief thought is as truly the master of your destiny as the captain is master of the vessel he guides through storm and drifting currents.. Your happiness depends not half as much on your surroundings as on yourself. It is possible to have nothing and yet to have all, and possible to have all and yet to have very little. Acheerful heart can lighten the heaviest burden and make it comparatively easy to bear. If you would discover what a man's life is worth either to himself or to others you need not look at his bank account, for that is no sure indication. If you can find out what kind of thoughts he cherishes you will learn the whole story. -Rev. George H. Hepworth.

THE SOUL OF GREENACRE.

BY F. EDWIN ELWELL.

The effect of Greenacre on the mind is not to take away individuality, but to lead one to realize the power of those forces that make up the real life of man.

The benefit derived by the artist is to lead him to see the great value of intellectual and spiritual thought in his profession, and to teach him to climb the mountain of his own soul— where he can breathe the purer air of spirit and look down with rational intelligence on the materialism of his profession.

While one must admit that it is irrational to have the head so far in the clouds that one is unfit for life on this earth, yet it is reasonable so to divide the activities of life that one shall not live entirely on the ground, but be able whenever the spirit moves to leave the sordid and commonplace for the real and spiritual.

Those who think they live but once will find it difficult to rise into the spirit of Greenacre.

Still, the pure materialist would doubtless be interested, if he have a good mind, in listening to the other side of human reasoning.

From whatever point of view one may regard the Greenacre movement, there will be a possible measure of interest that is difficult to duplicate at any other knowledge resort in the country. A happy spirit of individual freedom pervades the atmosphere, and one is growing better and broader in mind. while he sleeps at night.

One finds that he has a soul at Greenacre; and this fact is brought about in the most gentle, loving regard for others' opinions than one's own.