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The Hour of God

There are moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad
upon the waters of our being; there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the
strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first are periods when even a little effort
produces great results and changes destiny; the second are spaces of time when much
labour goes to the making of a little result. It is true that the latter may prepare the former,
may be the little smoke of sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of God’s
bounty. Unhappy is the man or the nation which, when the divine moment arrives, is
found sleeping or unprepared to use it, because the lamp has not been kept trimmed for
the welcome and the ears are sealed to the call. But thrice woe to them who are strong and
ready, yet waste the force or misuse the moment; for them is irreparable loss or a great
destruction.

In the hour of God cleanse thy soul of all self-deceit and hypocrisy and vain self-flattering
that thou mayst look straight into thy spirit and hear that which summons it. All insincerity

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