XV. THE EVERY-DAY HEAVEN The Beauty of Holiness--The Gladness of Goodness--The True Paradise XVI. TRUTH AND LIFE Religion of a Practical Mind--The Head and the Heart--New Truths for New Days. XVII. THE FRUITS OF FAITH Root and Fruit--The Orthodox Accent--The Business of Religion. XVIII. THE FORCE OF FAITH "The Victory that Overcometh"--Fear and Faith--Faith for the Future. XIX. HINDRANCES AND HELPS FROM WITHIN Worry--A Cure for the Blues--The Gospel of Song. XX. DOES HE CARE? The One at the Helm--The Shepherd and the Sheep--The Father's Care. I The Higher Levels _The Real and the Ideal_ _The Bread of Life_ _Life's Unvarying Values_ _The ideal is the mold in which the real is cast._ _Half of success is in seeing the significance of little things._ _He finds no weal who flees all woe._ _You do not make life sacred by looking sad._ _Sympathy is a key that fits the lock of any heart._ _Soul health will not come by taking religion as a dose._ _Many a cloud that we call sorrow is but the shadow of our own selfishness._ _To live wholly for possessions is to paralyze the life to the possibility of permanently possessing anything._ _It takes more than willingness to be nothing to make you amount to something._ _This is never a wrong world to him who is right with its heart._ THE REAL AND THE IDEAL It is probable that from the age of sixteen up to thirty Jesus of Nazareth spent His life in mechanical toil; He made wooden plows, ax handles, and yokes; He served as a carpenter. Then for three years He gave Himself to the ministry of ideal things, exclusively to the service of the spirit. There is a wonderful satisfaction in making things, in looking over some concrete piece of work accomplished when the day ends. It is a satisfaction that belongs to the artisan. Is it not probable that many said that it was a great pity when Jesus gave up so useful a trade as His? To them He seemed to be but chasing the rainbow. But to-day who possesses a single one of the things that young carpenter made? And did we possess them all what better off would the world be? Yet, on the other hand, how ill could this world afford to lose what He gave it by those three years of the service of the ideal. In our age of things we so easily forget how large is the place of the ideal and the spiritual. Ever estimating our assets in the concrete, we fail to recognize that our real wealth lies in thoughts and things abstract. The permanent possessions of humanity are spiritual. Not acres nor armies, not banks nor business make a nation, but mighty, compelling ideals and traditions.