living day by day in the discipline of right-eousness, all other things follow at the right time and in the right order. Just as the suffering and strife inhere in and spring from their root-cause, selfishness, so blessedness and peace inhere in and spring from their root-cause, righteousness. It is a full and all-embracing blessedness, complete and perfect in every department of life; for what is morally and spiritually right is physically and materially right.
Such a man is free, for he is freed from all anxiety, worry, fear, despondency, all the mental disturbances that derive their vitality from the elements of self; he lives in constant joy and peace, and this while living in the very midst of the competitive strife of the world. Yet, though walking in the midst of hell, its flames fall back before and around him, so that not one hair of his head can be singed. Though he walks in the midst of the lions of selfish force, for him their jaws are closed and their ferocity subdued. Though on every hand men
