thy soul into the shadow-land of the past and the future; and manifest thy native and divine strength now. Come out into the open road.
All that you would be and hope to be, you may be now. Non-accomplishment resides in your perpetual postponement; having the power to postpone, you also have the power to accomplish—to perpetually accomplish; realize this truth, and you shall be to-day, and every day, the ideal man of whom you dreamed.
Virtue consists in overcoming sin day after day, but holiness consists in leaving sin, unnoticed and ignored, to die by the wayside; and this is done, can only be done, in the living now. Say not unto thy soul, “Thou shalt be purer to-morrow”; but rather say, “Thou shalt be pure now.” To-morrow is too late for anything, and he who sees his help and salvation in to-morrow shall continually fail and fall to-day.
Thou didst fall yesterday? Didst sin grievously? Having realized this, leave it instantly and for ever, and watch that thou
