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for the will of God. The supernatural; this is what we are apt to feel that our spiritual life depend s upon. Not merely, for instance, on the values we spoke of, truth, love, beauty. We do not think of these as supernatural; they are, happily, too familiar; though we might quite fairly do so if anything is to be supernatural. But they come home to us at once as our belongings, and as of one web and tissue with our world. Now if we go into ourselves, and keep fast hold of religion, we shall surely feel that all these things are just sides, aspects, consequences of it, ways in which the revelation of supreme will and goodness comes in our mind and heart. Then the seeking for a sign — for something marked as an exception to natural occurrences, or what looks like an exception — all this falls into its true place. If you cannot think of God without it, well and good; think of Him, I believe