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clings, though with less tenacity, to the love of personal existence, and to the idea of exclusive interest in his personal possessions. When he at last realizes that these selfish elements must also be abandoned, there appears before him the third Gate: the Gateway of Surrender of Self. It is no dark portal that he now approaches, but one luminous with divine glory, one radiant with a radiance with which no earthly splendor can vie; and he advances toward it with no uncertain step. The clouds of Doubt have long been dispersed; the sounds of the voices of Temptation are lost in the valley below; and with firm gait, erect carriage, and a heart filled with unspeakable joy, he nears the Gate that guards the Kingdom of God. He has now given up all but self-interest in the things that are his by legal right, but he now perceives that he must hold nothing as his own; and as he pauses at the Gate, he hears the command which cannot be evaded or denied, “Yet lackest thou one thing; sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the

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