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hiding from his view the way immediately in front of him. A new and strange fear, too, will overtake him, and he will begin to question the wisdom of the course he is pursuing. Again the allurements of the world will be presented to him, dressed in their most attractive garb, and the drowning din and stimulating excitement of worldly battle will once more assume a desirable aspect. “After all, am I right?” “What gain is there in this?” “Does not life itself consist of pleasure and excitement and battle, and in giving these up am I not giving up all ?” “Am I not sacrificing the very substance of life for a meaningless shadow?” “May it not be that I, after all, am a poor deluded person, and that all those around me who live the life of the senses and stand upon its solid, sure, and easily procured enjoyments are wiser than I?” By such dark doubtings and questionings will he here be tempted and troubled, until these very doubts drive him to a deeper searching into the intricacies of life, and arouse within him