We can only speculate about these things. But there is one thing of which we can be absolutely sure: there is no depth so low that the cry of one of God's children will not reach from it to the heart of the Father; no sorrow so crushing, no anxiety so overwhelming, no pain so intense, no difficulty seemingly so unsolvable, no sin so awful, that eager, earnest prayer will not bring God to the relief of the sufferer. "If out of the depths we cry, we shall cry ourselves out of the depths," one has said who has written of the words that Professor Royce found so helpful. Then he asks: "What can a man do who finds himself at the foot of a beetling cliff, the sea in front, the wall of rock at his back, without foothold for a mouse, between the tide at the bottom and the grass at the top? He can do but one thing, he can shout, and, perhaps, may be heard, and a rope may come dangling down that he can spring at and catch. For sinful men in the miry pit the rope is already let down, and their grasping it is the same as the psalmist's cry. God has let down His forgiving love in Christ, and we need but the faith which accepts it while it asks, and then we are swung up into the light, and our feet set on a rock." Each one has depths peculiarly his own, and longs to be out of them. Then why not call to Him who hears men's cry from the depths, with the quiet confidence of quaint old Herbert, who wrote: Of what an easie quick accesse, My blessed Lord, art Thou! how suddenly May our requests thine ears invade! If I but lift mine eyes my suit is made; Thou canst no more not heare than Thou canst die. * * * * * Transcriber's note: Obvious punctuation errors were corrected. Page 44, "conjuctions" changed to "conjunctions" (prepositions, and conjunctions) Page 56, "year'sexpenses" changed to "year's expenses" (next year's expenses) Page 62, "throughness" changed to "thoroughness" (thoroughness by performing) Page 96, "then" changed to "than" (further than usual) Page 98, "begining" changed to "beginning" (thought of beginning) Page 138 "mments" changed to "comments" (comments is that the) Page 153, "be-because" changed to "because" (need of it because) Page 164, "Yes" changed to "Yet" (Yet, there was something) Page 214, "woud" changed to "would" (would be most effective)