To meet my needs through life he gave these beauteous words of praise! THOU MIGHTY PEACE, TRUTH BREATHING LORD, OF ALL THE HORDES OF DARKNESS AND OF LIGHT ADORED. THOU subduer of fears and sorrows which this earthly life infest, and LEADER FORTH TO THAT FUTURE REST BEYOND THE GRAVE, WHERE DWELL THE SAGES OF ALL THE PAST. In that NAME thy refuge seek, take thou thy refuge in its LAW OF PEACE, take thou its hand of FUTURE HOPE, and rest thou in its LAW which worketh unto GOOD, to BETTER and to BEST. Thus was I taught of the LOVE DIVINE. 62 [31]This life is the vine on which the grape doth grow, and fresh from its PRESS THE WINE OF LIFE DOTH FLOW. And there on the WASTE HEAP of sorrow lies the PULP OF WANTONNESS, from which the fool a strong and hurtful beverage brews, that works DESTRUCTION UNTO ALL WHO OF IT DRINK! THEY WHO ARE CLEAN NEED NO STIMULANTS, EXCEPT THAT ONE CONTAINED WITHIN THE VINTAGE OF LIFE'S EXPERIENCE. All other wines are rods of pain in which REMORSE IS FOUND in many garments dressed. BEWARE! BEWARE!! Many men do question thus, Why was it put here if a curse? The swine the question here might put, Why must he eat what's on him thrust? Present no more such reasoning pray for the answer is here given. NONE BUT THE FOOL THE WINE OF EARTH DOTH QUAFF, NONE BUT THE WISE THE WINE OF LIFE DO DRAW. [31] All that this life is, is the sum total of what the preceding one was. 63 Here I am compelled to write about another form of vice; some endure it in its LEGAL FORM whilst others are slaves to a NAMELESS FORM; Never Brother, never Friend, wreck thy life on the shoals of shame, nor cast thy virtue in the dust. NO TWO WRONGS WILL ONE RIGHT MAKE, NO HANDS IN PRAYER CAN A FOUL DEED CHANGE, OR A VIRTUE MAKE! Ah, this is the BITTER CUP OF LIFE and whosoever from it drinks, into the dust descends. BEWARE! BEWARE!! 64 The means that do the ends of life defeat, are: DRINK! FORNICATION and other UNLAWFUL ACTS committed by the FLESH, GAMBLING and UNTRUTH. No threats of HELL, no hope of HEAVEN, can lift the cloud that doth enshroud a DEFILED EARTHLY TEMPLE. SUCH FLOWERS AS THESE FOREVER DIE, USELESSNESS HAS NO PLACE IN CREATION'S FERTILE FIELDS. 65 Oft has the WAY on earth been blazed, that all the PATH might see and rightly follow. Sages the [32]PATERAN have placed at every crossroad. And though so many have pushed those DARKENED DOORS aside, NONE HAVE RETURNED OF THAT WAY HERE TO TELL! WHICH TO DISCOVER, ALL FOR THEMSELVES MUST TREAD. [32] Pateran means a leaf which travelers used to place at the cross roads to show the way to their followers. 66