THE UNKNOWN COMMUNICATORS

 

"We are not your friends, Mary and Dee. We came because we heard your call into the silence. We are no one you know, no one who has used your hand before; but we are true in spiritual alliance, for we are of the same thought as your dear friends. We believe the life of the spirit must be service first, joy afterward. But no! That is not quite right, because service is always joy. The two move on together. And if the sad old world could learn the lesson of unselfish, unseeking service,—I mean unseeking of any return,—it would create a heaven on earth. There are saints over there, but their quiet self-sacrifice and loving service are scarcely noticed. The ruling passion for power, the ruling desire for riches to win this power, is almost universal. And the quiet saint-like souls who go on their way unobserved will grow more and more heavenly in character, and will become the nobility here."