When He inspired this poem I was conscious of this moving and throbbing of the Spirit of God and Life in the universe. This strange mystical urge, this pulse beat of God is what I want you to sense in this poem. Everything in the universe is pulsating under the impact and power of the Spirit of God—the Spirit of Life. Though invisible and not tangible, we are con­scious of it through spirit and it is an eternal urge. Since the creation it has been pushing its way through, involving earth and time, and will go back again into the Eternal. As the throbbing of the human heart is a sign of life, so this terrific urge—this pulse beat of God lets me know He is alive.

Thy holy breath hath quickened me to life.
I joy to feel thee move upon my house, . . .
But-deeper rests the ecstasy divine
That burning in the inner, sacred shrine
A fire of God, fanned by His eternal breath
Illuminates my spirit and I see.—

Being quickened to life, through a threefold conscious­ness (my trinity) my grasp is complete.

A new creation now I find myself
In process of becoming God’s ideal.
Eternal urge, O mighty breath of God,
Move on in floods of endless life.