A MAP OF LIFE says of baptism: “Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” PRAYER Now the very first condition of human life, whether in the Body or out of it, is prayer. Prayer is simply the directing of life to God. Of prayer, thus understood, the most direct form is the turning of the soul to God that it may speak to Him. This is not, as is sometimes thought, the whole of prayer, since every action of a life directed to God is a prayer. The proportion between this more direct form of prayer which consists in speaking to God and the less direct form Avhich consists in work done for God’s glory, is different for different men according to God’s special will for each. At one end is the contemplative life, which is almost wholly direct prayer: at the other end is the active life, but this can and should be prayer also. In any case, if direct speaking to God is not the whole of prayer, it is prayer at its highest, and must underlie all the rest. What have men to say to God? Endless things. But they may be grouped under four headings. There is firstfarforotioa. It is of the nature of an intelligent being to honour excellence. God is supreme excellence and man’s intellect is therefore false to itself if it denies Him its homage. Second, there thanksgiving : we owe all things whatsoever io8