January 23d.  If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them.  Greatest Thing in the World.

January 24th.  The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room.  Life is not a holiday, but an education.  And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.  Greatest Thing in the World.

January 25th What a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds.  Greatest Thing in the World.

January 26th.  The test of Religion, the final test of Religion, is not Religiousness, but Love.  Greatest Thing in the World.

January 27th.  There are not two laws of Bio-genesis, one for the natural, the other for the Spiritual; one law is for both.  Where-ever there is Life, Life of any kind, this same law holds.  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 75.

January 28th.  The first step in peopling these worlds with the appropriate living forms is virtually miracle.  Nor in one case is there less of mystery in the act than in the other.  The second birth is scarcely less perplexing to the theologian than the first to the embryologist.  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 76.

January 29th.  There may be cases—­they are probably in the majority—­ where the moment of contact with the Living Spirit, though sudden, has been obscure.  But the real moment and the conscious moment are two different things.  Science pronounces nothing as to the conscious moment.  If it did, it would probably say that that was seldom the real moment—­ The moment of birth in the natural world is not a conscious moment—­we do not know we are born till long afterward.  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 93.

January 30th.  The stumbling-block to most minds is perhaps less the mere existence of the unseen than the want of definition, the apparently hopeless vagueness, and not least, the delight in this vagueness as mere vagueness by some who look upon this as the mark of quality in Spiritual things.  It will be at least something to tell earnest seekers that the Spiritual World is not a castle in the air, of an architecture unknown to earth or heaven, but a fair ordered realm furnished with many familiar things and ruled by well-remembered Laws.  Natural Law, Introduction, p. 26.

January 31st.  Character grows in the stream of the world’s life.  That chiefly is where men are to learn love.  The Greatest Thing in the World.

February 1st.  If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty of Spiritual growth.  The Greatest Thing in the World.

February 2d.  A Religion without mystery is an absurdity.  Even Science has its mysteries, none more inscrutable than around this Science of Life.  It taught us sooner or later to expect mystery, and now we enter its domain.  Let it be carefully marked, however, that the cloud does not fall and cover us till we have ascertained the most momentous truth of Religion—­ that Christ is in the Christian.  Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 88.