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"To them that love God, all things work together unto Good;"[1] the truly spiritual man discovers the imprint of the Divine Life along all the highways and byways of Creation: just as the poet's eye discovers beauty in the woodland through which the ordinary wayfarer passes unheeding.

Thus the whole creation poured into the Soul of Francis an unceasing stream of spiritual life, and with the inflowing life came joy—joy unutterable;

  1. Romans viii. 28.