than a subjective {218} phenomenon. 'It is not only a calling up of one's own private resources; it must derive its ultimate efficacy from the increased flow from the infinite life into the life of the suppliant.'[34] (_c_) Prayer attains its highest expression in _Thanksgiving and Joy_. Gratitude is the responsive feeling which wells up in the heart of those who have experienced the goodness of God, and recognise Him as the great Benefactor. Christians are to abound in thankfulness. We live in a world where everything speaks to us of divine love. Praise is the complement of prayer. The grateful heart sees life transfigured. It discovers everywhere tokens of grace and hope, 'Making the springs of time and sense Sweet with eternal good.' Peace, trust, joy, hope are the ultimate notes of the Christian life. 'Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks.' Thanksgiving, says St. Bernard, 'is the return of the heart to God in perpetual benediction.' In the kingdom of love duty is swallowed up in joy. Life is nothing but the growing realisation of God. With God man's life begins, and to Him turns back at last in the wrapt contemplation of His perfect being. In fellowship with God man finds in the end both himself and his brother. 'What is left for us, save, in growth Of soul, to rise up, far past both, From the gift looking to the Giver, From the cistern to the river, And from the finite to the Infinity And from man's dust to God's divinity?'[35] 'God,' says Green, 'is a Being with whom we are in principle one, in the sense that He is all which the human spirit is capable of becoming.'[36] In the worship of God, {219} man dies to the temporal interests and narrow ends of the exclusive self, and lives in an ever-expanding life in the life of others, manifesting more and more that spiritual principle which is the life of God, who lives and loves in all things.[37] [1] Paulsen, _Ethics_, bk. III. chap. i. Cf. also Wundt, _Ethik_, p. 148. But see also W. Wallace, _Lectures and Essays_, p. 325, on their confusion. [2] Mackintosh, _Chr. ethics_, p. 114. [3] Cf. Haering, _Ethics of Chr. Life_, p. 230. [4] This seems to be the position of Herrmann; see _Ethik_. [5] Cf. Eucken, _Life's Basis_, p. 185. [6] Maccunn, _Ethics of Citizenship_, p. 40. [7] _Duties of Man_, chap. i. [8] See discussion by late W. Wallace in _Lectures and Essays_, pp. 213 ff. [9] _Ethik_, p. 190. [10] Maccunn, _op. cit._; p. 42. [11] Cf. Eucken, _Main Currents of Modern Thought_, p. 348. [12] Hegel, _Philosophy of Right_, p. 45. [13] _Das Wesen des Christenthums_; cf. also _Ecce Homo_, p. 345. [14] Adopted in Massachusetts in 1773.--'All men have equal rights to life, liberty, and property.' [15] Browning, _Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau_. [16] Cf. Wheeler Robinson, _The Christian Doctrine of Man_, pp. 281 f. [17] Matt. xi. 18; Luke vii. 33. [18] Ottley, _Ideas and Ideals_. [19] Rom. xiii. 7-10.