Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 3.djvu/22

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eloquence, the same flavour and fragrance, the same aura and aroma, the same insight and inspiration as before may be found to prevail. The same dominant note of intense and yet ever self-dissatisfied spiritual ‘ realisation ’ may be heard to sound the higher sTains of that self-surrender which, as the closing article in the first section here puts it, feels “ an existence separate from God is insufferalfiy oppn'ssive.” What difference in e!n]itiasis and expression is perceptible b<*tveeii this and the two former issues consists not in the spirit or ii! the stand-point but arises cliietlvoiit of tli“ subjects and the surroundings, '[’he four main sections, of course, conliuuc in regard to the selection aud classifieat Km of contents. But, subject to the exig •ueics of th > material available each time, th'* scape of the opening volume has come to be, ii^ the m:*in. religious; the Social Purity and allied tiiernes in the next giv(? it a ])re[»ou i.Taiiae of ethical colour; while, again, in the third, with its College Address(‘s. (i’ouncil Speeches, the Adi-Andhra and Anti-Non-Co-operation Addresses