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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

He meets men alone, in the dark. Congregations have their use, and books, and papers, and multitudes, and friends, but God loves the silent way. 24 POUR MINUTE ESSAYS He is every soul's most secret secret. If, as Thoreau said, it takes two to tell the truth, it takes also two to make a revela­tion; it takes the whisper of God and the listening man. God's whisper runs to and fro upon the earth. It might be heard in all cottages, palaces, marts, offices, inns, and councils-if only we listened. Go into the silence. Give your soul time to calm. Let the hurly-burly die down, the crash of passion, the struggle of doubt, the pain of failure, the ranklings of wrong, the clamor of ambition. Cease from self. Be still. Practise this. It is an art, and not to be mastered out of hand. Try it again and again, as patiently, as determinedly, as lov­ingly as one practises the violin or the mak­ing of a statute. FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 25 And after a while, as virtuosity comes after long trials, there will come to life in you the needed sixth sense, by which you can hear the whisper.

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