Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

458 FELIR AoNOSTICA. [April
spirit will be opened to him ; and when it is opened, it will
never again be closed. Seek rightly and you will surely find.
Knock in faith, and the door will open, and you will euter and
possess that abiding peace, which alone can be found by those,
who, for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, have renounced all
that pertains W self.
FELIS AGNOSTICA,
Said the Cat to the Bird,
"Those things on your back arP abl!urd >
Why don't you east them free
And walk about like me? "
Said tha Bird to the Cat,
•• Don't be eo sure of that ;
You would more wisely not
Deepise what you haven't got.
Those things
.A,re wings! "
" I know w·hat lega are worth
To walk upon the earth ;
And I, whenever I ehooae,
My legs, like you, can use.
We both tread earth; but I,
Whenever I choose to fly,
Command both earth and sky ! "
Then away the Bird flew ; .
And the Cat said •• Mew !
How tlo I know it's true."
''That's always the way, I find,
With folks of this fanciful kind.
If you try to set them right,
They defy your logic quite,
Anti go somewhere out of eight.
Now, what sort of proof is that
To a Oat?"
R. W. RAYMOND, in Tl~e Christian Union.
Try to care about something in this vast world besides the
gratification of small, selfish desires.-George Elliot.
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